Việt Nam News

The HCM City’s People’s Committee has recognised District 10 for reaching its target of having no households living under the poverty line two years ahead of schedule.

The People’s Committee of southern Bình Thuận Province has asked relevant departments and sectors to clarify the responsibilities of organisations and individuals involved in the illegal construction and operation of the Muine Hill Tourism Site in Phan Thiết City.

Việt Nam has secured a spot on the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) for the 2019-2025 term in a vote of the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in New York, the US on Monday.

Buôn Ma Thuột police in the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) province of  Gia Lai have seized 51 wild animals at a restaurant in the city’s Tân Tiến Ward.

The central city of Đà Nẵng has approved a master plan for the development of its logistics infrastructure by 2030 with total investment of VNĐ13.7 trillion (US$606 million).

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc awarded the 108 Military Central Hospital its second Hero of the People’s Armed Forces title on Monday, on the occasion of the 74th founding anniversary of the Việt Nam People’s Army

Hà Nội’s Traffic Police Unit 7 has fined the driver of a four-seater car VNĐ1 million (US$43) for reversing down a ring road.

A Vietnamese woman was arrested for allegedly smuggling more than 22 kilogrammes of endangered elephants’ tusks in Thailand on Sunday, Thanh Niên (Young People) newspaper has reported.

Police in the northern mountainous province of Sơn La arrested five drug traffickers and seized three kilos of methamphetamine, five bricks of heroin and 790 synthetic drug pills on Sunday.

Ten households raising 100 ha of fishery products in Mỹ Xuân Ward, Phú Mỹ District of southern Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province are suffering losses as the water source for their breeding areas has been contaminated by a nearby construction project.

Việt Nam’s Coast Guard Command No 1 on Sunday seized nearly 500 tonnes of frozen cattle products from seven Chinese vessels operating off the coast of Quảng Ninh Province.

Director of a bank agency in Đắk Mil District, Central Highlands Province of Đắk Nông was found to have committed suicide on Sunday afternoon, according to the district’s police.

Flower growers are busy preparing for the upcoming Tết (Lunar New Year) which will begin on February 5.

Construction on an expressway linking Châu Đốc city in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang to Cần Thơ City and Sóc Trăng Province is expected to start in 2024 and will open to traffic in 2026, according to the Cửu Long Corporation for Investment, Development and Project Management of Infrastructure.

An estimated 800,000 people in Việt Nam suffer from obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), which requires expensive polysomonography and respiratory polygraphy screening tests.

Ecosystem-based solutions are vitally important for the Mekong Delta to adapt to climate change in the decades to come, speakers said at a seminar held in Cần Thơ over the weekend.

The Institute of Bioinformatics has to replace the entire workforce at the Bioinformatics Bureau since all its employees have quit.

It is important for wholesale markets in HCM City to ensure adequate supply of goods and monitor food safety during the Lunar New Year early next year, according to authorities.