Việt Nam News

Hoàng Văn Tiến, 27, starts the day on his dog farm by grooming his giant Alaskan friend Nana.

 Improving the operation of public buses and better management of private vehicles are among the measures envisaged under a programme to reduce traffic congestion and accidents in HCM City.

The construction ministry has asked Hà Nội’s People’s Committee to inspect resettlement apartment housing projects.

Some investors in HCM City who have failed to deliver on project commitments have left their land plots empty for many years.

A total of 896 individuals and organisations in HCM City were honoured today for donating blood and making contributions to the voluntary blood donation movement.

Hải Phòng City’s Department of Transport has planned to ban passenger buses with more than 29 seats to Cát Bà Island during weekends from June 22.

At least 4,000 ethnic minority children aged three to six have benefited from the pilot of the Emergent Literacy and Math (ELM) toolkit to build foundational reading and math skills.

A motor canoe carrying inspectors in southern An Giang Province collided yesterday with a barge anchored on the Hậu River, leaving one dead, one missing, and three injured.

The Standing Office of the Central Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention sent a directive to the steering committees for natural disaster prevention, search and rescue of coastal provinces and cities on preventive measures for a tropical depression.

More than 833,000 doses of Indian-made ComBE Five vaccine will be imported to Việt Nam by mid-June, said Vũ Tuấn Cường, head of the health ministry’s Drug Administration.

The Thăng Long Project Management Board sent the fesibility study report of the 64km-highway connecting northern Ninh Bình province and central Thanh Hoá province to the transport ministry for approval.

HCM City authorities have asked the Government to consider allowing the city and provincial level administrative agencies to approve metro projects to ensure that construction remains on schedule.

The HCM City People’s Court on June14 sent a case related to fraud and irresponsible lending practices at the Central Sài Gòn branch of the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) back to the People’s Procuracy for further investigation.

Thousands of containers containing recyclable used materials are now pilling up at seaports in coastal localities of Hải Phòng, HCM and Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu, reducing productivity and efficiency of ports’ operation and negatively affecting export – import activities of Vietnamese enterprises.

The Information Technology Department under the Ministry of Health (MOH) launched new software on June 14 designed to compile a comprehensive database of electronic medical records.

The State-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) won 17 out of 67 prizes of the National External Information Service Awards 2017 which were announced at a ceremony held at VNA’s headquarters in Hà Nội on Thursday. 

The Law on Cyber Security is in conformity with the Constitution and does not hamper the implementation of the international treaties to which Việt Nam is a party, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Lê Thị Thu Hằng said on Thursday.