Việt Nam News

HCM City in recent years has built a number of multi-million dollar roads, including the Hà Nội, Nguyễn Văn Linh and Phạm Văn Đồng highways, but footbridges.and public restroom facilities were not included as part of the projects.  

Twenty years have passed since the young doctor, Trịnh Đức Thiện, left Huế City for the remote and mountainous A Vao Commune in central Quảng Trị Province’s Đăk Rông District to work after graduating from medical college.

HCM City authorities are set to step up oversight of inland waterway transport to ensure safety and smoother movement of goods and passengers.

Artichokes produced in Lào Cai Province contain a high concentration of cynarin, which can assist in lowering cholesterol and breaking down unwanted fat. Farmers in the region are cashing in on increased demand. 

The Việt Nam-Sustainable Agriculture Transformation Project (VnSAT) in the Mekong Delta has helped raise farm profits by 14 per cent after two years of implementation, according to Đặng Minh Cường, the project’s deputy head.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Cần Thơ plans to develop a 700ha specialised fruit growing area for export in Phong Điền District.

Almost 90 per cent of local markets in Hà Nội don’t meet fire safety standards.

While the number of traffic accidents on Vietnamese roads decreased in the first quarter of this year, fatalities rose.

Police in this Central Highland province are urgently seeking a group of vandals suspected of throwing rocks into a car on National Highway 27.

Two men from Quảng Bình Province have been praised by the health minister for travelling more than 200km at night to donate their rare blood to save a dying patient.

Police in this northern province have smashed a large illegal online gambling ring, with 22 arrests and the seizure of over VNĐ200 billion (over US$8.8 million).

People who do not wear a seat belt are 30 times more likely to be thrown out of a vehicle during a crash.

Initial investigation in a fire at ParcSpring building in HCM City’s District 2 revealed that the fire had started from a charger plugged in the bedroom, online newspaper Vietnamnet reported.

For students at Nguyễn Bá Ngọc Primary School in Central Highland Đắk Lắk Province’s Krông Pắc where 90 per cent of students are ethnic, Êđê language lessons are always the ones they love most.

Water and agricultural land in Nhơn Hải Commune, Ninh Hải District of southern Ninh Thuận Province have been contaminated with high saline level, affecting local production and livelihoods.

The Ministry of Transport is considering to use investment from the Airports Corporation of Việt Nam (ACV), or call for capital resources to build more runways and terminals at Tân Sơn Nhất Airport.

Twenty landmine victims from the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang received VNĐ12 million (US$526) each on Saturday, in a bid to secure their livelihoods under the framework of the April 4 International Mine Awareness Day.

Two illegal logging cases were discovered in the central province’s Đông Giang and Nam Giang districts in March, with 77 big trees chopped down. Local rangers and the two protective forest management boards of Sông Kôn and Nam Sông Bung claimed they were unaware of the cases until the public security agency began investigations.