Việt Nam News

The 15th Hà Nội Open Maths Competition concluded successfully in the capital on Thursday evening.

A huge blaze burnt down a warehouse and three other houses last night in Hải Phòng city, reported the Voice of Việt Nam online, vov.vn. According to people living in the area, the fire started at around 6pm Thursday at 648, Lê Thánh Tông Street

Trần Quốc Thái, deputy director of Urban Development Department, at the Ministry of Construction said at a yesterday seminar in Hà Nội in order to develop smart cities, planning must be one step ahead.

Việt Nam is ranked under the global average in the open budget index, especially in terms of public participation.

Fire-fighting police in districts throughout HCM City are working with investors and managers of apartment buildings to strengthen fire-prevention measures at all high-rises and apartment buildings in the city, following a fire at the Carina Plaza apartment complex in District 8 that killed 13 people on March 23.

Việt Nam should utilise cutting-edge technology to reform education to become a fast mover, said Professor Ju Ho Lee, Republic of Korea (RoK)’s former Minister of Education, Science, and Technology.

Construction of Long Thành International Airport in the southern province of Đồng Nai at an earlier date than initially planned would help reduce the overload on neighbouring Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City, experts said at a seminar held in the city yesterday.

More than 7,000 primary and secondary school students in HCM City are expected to benefit from better access to English and Vietnamese books, online and multimedia facilities, and other library resources by 2020 with the launch of the second phase of the Words on Wheels mobile digital library programme yesterday (March 29).

The HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and UNICEF Việt Nam on March 30 launched a technical assistance programme called “Child Friendly City Initiative Project in HCM City for 2017-2021”.

The Ministry of Public Security arrested five suspects in an online gambling ring, worth hundreds of billions of đồng, in HCM City on Thursday afternoon.

With the year just three months old there have already been fires at many wood processing workshops in Bình Dương Province, which have caused injuries to people and damaged properties.

The 108 Military Central Hospital organised a ceremony to honour Major Lê Hải Ninh, a soldier whose lung, heart, kidney and corneas were donated after he was declared brain dead at a ceremony yesterday.

Việt Nam strongly opposes a press release on 20 March by several UN human rights experts, said Ambassador Dương Chí Dũng, head of Việt Nam's Permanent Mission to the UN, the WTO and other international organisations in Geneva. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a project to build a coastal road in northern Thái Bình Province.

The Hà Nội Market Management Department’s Team 14 seized four tonnes of corn seeds with unclear expiry date on Wednesday afternoon.

Hà Nội Police have asked the city procuracy to prosecute two defendants for breaking out of prison.

Scores of households living along the Hậu River in Thành Phước Ward, Bình Minh Town, in the southern province of Vĩnh Long have faced the risk of landslides for years.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday had the final word in the prolonged debate on how to expand the overcrowded Tân Sơn Nhất airport, deciding to build another terminal south of the airport.