Việt Nam News

Mekong Delta traffic bottlenecks need to be soon removed to unleash the full potential of the region considered one of the country’s ‘key economic zones.’

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has launched a promotional writing contest about new rural area development and agricultural restructuring during the 2017-2020 period.

Investors in HCM City will receive construction permits within 15 working days after applying online for level 3 public service registrations, according to the city’s People’s Committee.

Several illegal sand exploitation vessels have been found operating along Chu River in the central province of Thanh Hoá.

The first council composed of children in Việt Nam was established in HCM City on Thursday, aiming to help city authorities understand the needs and expectations of the city’s children.

Thousands of hectares of agricultural land in Cà Mau Province’s Thới Bình District have been affected after forest management companies opened sewer sluices and discharged floodwater.

Hà Nội’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment, along with Quảng An Ward People’s Committee, will examine whether villas have been constructed illegally on agricultural land in Tây Hồ District.

Police in Hòa Bình Province have arrested three people suspected to be responsible for the deaths of eight patients who underwent kidney dialysis treatment at a local hospital in May.

As many as 78 young doctors have been recruited for a pilot project on sending doctors to disadvantaged areas, including mountainous, border areas and islands, from June.

A huge blaze that broke out late on Thursday night destroyed some 5,000sq.m. of a warehouse near Sài Gòn Port in HCM City’s District 4.

Thousands of gout patients with serious complications have been examined at the Polyclinics of the Gout Institute over the past 10 years, pointing to an alarming situation, according to doctors at the French-Vietnamese Gout Research Center.

The latest trends in language teaching and learning in the digital age will be the main topic of discussion at the Việt Nam-USA Society English Centers’ annual Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference held on July 21 at the White Palace Convention Center in HCM City’s Phú Nhuận District.

Cars will be banned from selected roads in downtown HCM City to ensure relocation of Nhà Bè – Tao Đàn underground cable systems that cross Bến Nghé Canal.

The HCM City administration has agreed on the World Bank (WB)’s request for terminating a project on water drainage and pollution reduction of Thẩm Lương–Bến Cát–Rạch Nước Lên canal.

Children of Quảng Phú Commune in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế can enjoy a library facility at the home of a local elderly farmer, who loves reading and poetry.

In HCM City, the number of people brought into the social, health, and unemployment insurance net increased by 10.3 per cent year-on-year to 142,943 in the first five months this year, according to the Việt Nam Social Insurance Agency.

Thousands of households in northern mountainous province of Hà Giang have been assigned forests along with commitment to protect them. Every month, they receive payments for forest environmental services, which help them to improve livelihoods, the Nông Thôn Ngày Nay (Countryside Today) newspaper reported.

A taxi driver from the central province of Nghệ An Province’s has turned his house into a first-aid station so that he can offer timely help to traffic accident victims.