Việt Nam News

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday approved the general planning for Thanh Hoá City and Thanh Hoá urban master planning up to 2040.

Customs forces in the northern city of Hải Phòng discovered nearly 1.4 tonnes of pangolin scales and 20 elephant tusks weighing more than 100kg hidden inside a container shipped from Nigeria.

Việt Nam will host the 12th Intergovernmental Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum in Asia (EST 12) this year, said the Ministry of Transport.

 The Prime Minister’s working group made a field trip to Hải Phòng Port on Tuesday to inspect a huge number of containers of scrap materials and waste which are building up at major sea ports in Việt Nam.

The share of job seekers who are using formal channels (employment services) is growing in Việt Nam, but still accounts for a minority of the job search channels used. Most jobs in the country today are filled through personal contacts, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

The People’s Court of Hoà Bình City yesterday handed down sentences to seven defendants implicated in a serious medical incident that killed nine patients at the provincial General Hospital on May 29, 2017.

Sugarcane farmers in the Mekong Delta are facing losses during the harvest of the 2018-19 sugarcane crop because of low prices and yield.

In 2017, not long after starting working for Company 78 under Legion no. 15 in Sa Thầy District, the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, the family of Ja Rai ethnic Y Hoăn was twinned with the family of Vũ Thị Bắc, a company veteran.

The Ministry of Health has set a target to reduce hospital violence by between 15 and 20 per cent by 2020.

Phan Huy Chú High School teacher Nguyễn Kim Anh has assigned her students the task of helping their parents with preparations for the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

The Hà Nội Department of Transport has requested transportation businesses publicise their fares and not illegally increase prices during the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

The Vietnam Food Administration (VFA) under the Ministry of Health has issued a warning about batches of Modilac baby formula products suspected of Salmonella infection imported to Viet Nam.

Hà Nội has set a goal this year to limit the imbalance in the sex ratio of births at the current rate of 113 girls per 100 boys.

Three people have reportedly died of suffocation in the northern province of Thái Bình on Tuesday.

Hà Nội will strive to maintain the sex ratio at birth of last year to gradually reduce gender imbalance at birth this year, said Tạ Quang Huy, director of the municipal Department of Population and Family Planning.

About VNĐ6.3 billion (US$272,000) has been donated by the public to buy gifts for poor people during Tết (Lunar New Year) Holiday.

The northern province of Vĩnh Phúc will put in place different measures this year to improve the lives of children living with HIV and help them integrate into the community, said experts from the provincial social sponsoring centre.

Police in Kỳ Sơn District, in the central province of Nghệ An, on Monday started criminal proceedings against a 32-year-old woman for allegedly sending pregnant women to China to sell their newborn babies.