Việt Nam News

The central province of Quảng Nam’s waterway police have confiscated five boats along with specialised machines that were used to illegally suck sand from the Thu Bồn River.

The planting of genetically modified corn has been increasing the crops’ productivity, improving the income of farmers in northern Thái Nguyên Province and help reduce imports in the future, the provincial Sub-department of Plant Protection has said.

Authorities in Đắk Lắk Province have warned farmers not to expand the area under sacha inchi, also called wild peanut, since demand for it is not consistent.

Surgeons of Đức Giang General Hospital in Hà Nội successfully operated on a male patient with acute appendicitis last weekend, despite his internal organs being in different places than most people.

The HCM City Padiatrics No 2 Hospital and CHU Grenoble, a leading French university hospital, signed a co-operation agreement on training of paediatricians at the 7^th Việt Nam-France Pediatrics Conference that wrapped on Wednesday at the HCM City Paediatrics No 2 Hospital.

Multidimensional poverty (MDP) in Việt Nam witnessed a significant drop from 15.9 per cent in 2012 to 9.1 per cent in 2016 with some six million people escaping from poverty.

The southeastern province of Bình Phước has said it will add six more solar energy projects with a total capacity of 850MWp to its master plan.

Bình admitted to police that she hoped to earn $100,000 from the enterprise, but after some negotiation, the sum of money dropped to $70,000.

The Project of Adaptation to Climate Change in the Mekong Delta in Trà Vinh Province (AMD Trà Vinh) has helped locals implement 53 production models since 2015, according to its co-ordinating board.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân on Wednesday spoke highly of the active role and contributions of the Catholic community to the national building and development cause while visiting the Archdiocese of HCM City on the occasion of the Christmas and New Year holidays.

At 5am on December 12 a public transport bus operated by Saigon Star on the Bến Thành–An Sương route in HCM City began its trip at Bến Thành.

The Ministry of Finance is launching a plan to put a tax charge on anyone who buys petrol.

A fishing vessel saved 10 foreign men, including eight Burmese nationals, who were drifting on a life raft in the seas of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province, about 25 nautical miles to the southeast of Côn Đảo Island.

The Voice of Vietnam (VOV) has officially launched a new Korean radio programme to mark the 26th anniversary of the Việt Nam-South Korea diplomatic relationship (1992-2018).

The Government Inspectorate’s Anti-Corruption Bureau has launched two hotline numbers and an email address to receive public reports on corruption.

A Tuesday evening railway accident in the central coastal province of Khánh Hòa killed one woman and injured four others including a five-year-old child, said an official of the provincial Phú Khánh Railway Company.

A serious traffic accident occurred on Tuesday evening on Trích Sài Street in Hà Nội’s Tây Hồ District when an intoxicated driver slammed her car into a number of motorbikes, injuring six people.

Labour-export companies might be banned from sending Vietnamese workers abroad for jobs considered dangerous.