Việt Nam News

Lawmakers express their concerns over several issues plaguing the Vietnamese society in current times including corruption, solutions to immigration, addressing child abuse and school violence in today morning session of the ongoing National Assembly (NA)’s plenary meeting.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Friday proposed a ban on beer advertisement besides liquor advertisement like present.

Another medical centre will be built on Phan Vinh island (Pearson Reefs) in the island district of Trường Sa (Spratly), the central province of Khánh Hòa.

Experts say violations in the construction field are still rampant in the capital city of Hà Nội, despite a new management regime intended to reduce the number of people on the State payroll while creating district-level inspection task forces.

In just two weeks, 9th grade students all over the country will take part in the high school entrance exam, which is considered by many to be as important as the university entrance exam.

Recent surveys amongst 1 million correspondents show inpatients’ satisfaction with hospital services in Việt Nam reached 75.6 per cent, while the figure for outpatients is at 66.3 per cent.

The collection of indirect taxes in Việt Nam is forecasted to increase in the coming time while direct taxes is predicted to account for a smaller proportion, according to a Fair Tax Monitor Index report released by Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) yesterday.

HCM City will open an additional 17 high-quality bus routes beginning from July 1, increasing the total number of high-quality bus routes to 20.

A major fire at a high-rise apartment building Hà Đông District of Hà Nội taking place today’s afternoon was put out after 30 minutes.

The Ministry of Health has agreed to further co-operation with the Global Tuberculosis (TB) Programme by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and signed other agreements at the 71st World Health Assembly, which runs from May 21 to 26 in Geneva (Switzerland), Vietnam News Agency reported.

Thanh Hoá Province Police yesterday remanded two barrier keepers for three months in custody for "irresponsibility causing serious consequences" after a North-South passenger train crashed into a truck, killing two people and injuring 10 others on Thursday.

The Sóc Trăng border guards seized more than 50,000 litres of diesel in the territorial waters, some 28 nautical miles off the coast of the Mekong Delta province, on Thursday.

The licences of some 1,225 transport entities in Hà Nội have been revoked, reported Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper. 

Construction work on a road connecting Sóc Trăng City to a shrimp-rice farming area started, Trần Văn Chuyện, chairman of the provincial people’s committee, said Thursday.

The application of the economic watering model has helped increase productivity by 10-15 per cent and reduced the cost of labourers as well.

Overwhelming heat since early May seemed to signal a harsh and long summer this year. While many seek to hide from the heat in comfortable rooms cooled with fans or air conditioners, many workers dare not use too much electricity for the privilege. They are poor, and paying more for power than they should.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has predicted ten risks that could result in disasters including those related to fire, pollution, transport, health and nuclear power plants.

When the authorities of the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai decided to build the Ayun Hạ irrigation system in 2000, hundreds of local residents in Phú Thiện District’s Chư A Thai Commune were relocated to a new resettlement area.