Some 73,100 residents in areas affected by typhoon Damrey late last year now have access to fresh water and sanitation. This has been possible due to a six-month effort by local and international agencies, including UNICEF.
Early Thursday morning, North-South passenger train crashed into a truck when it was passing through the central province of Thanh Hoá, killing two and injuring 10 others.
Anyone in Hà Nội craving fresh, juicy strawberries from the southern city of Đà Lạt shall have to pay for at least 35 per cent more than usual. But the extra money doesn’t go to farmers, but pays for costly transportation.
The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), on Tuesday, scrapped a scheme to renew the national high school examination from 2018 to 2020.
Dương Thu Hiền, a fourth grader at Nhân Chính Primary School for hearing-impaired children in Hà Nội, looked attentively at a slideshow featuring a stranger using candy to persuade a little girl to follow him.
Authorities have rejected an investor’s proposal to build a chemical factory near the UNESCO World Heritage Site Hạ Long Bay in the northern province of Quảng Ninh.
A minimum wage should be set that it is sufficient to attain a basic standard of living for labourers and their families, a new resolution on wage reform issued by the 12th Party Central Committee said.
Dương Thu Hiền, a fourth grader at Nhân Chính Primary School for hearing-impaired children in Hà Nội, looked attentively at the images displayed the slideshow, which featuring a story of a stranger trying to persuade a little girl to follow him to get the candy.
Signs of smuggling were discovered at two major ports in HCM City as prohibited goods were found in several containers left unclaimed here during the past month.
The supervision group of the Hà Nội’s People’s Council has asked the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment to work with the city’s authorities in order to reclaim long-delayed projects which violate the current Land Law.
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tiền Giang is developing intensive tra fish farming in alluvial areas along rivers to produce high quality fish for export.
La Nina will end and move to a neutral state from around June, 2018 and maintain this status until the end of this year, meteorologist Lê Thanh Hải said.
A bus carrying 41 overseas Vietnamese in
Thirty per cent of the total of 240 traffic accidents recorded in the first four months of the year in HCM City occurred in Bình Tân and Bình Chánh districts.
The Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng plans to improve management of noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and epilepsy, as well as schizophrenia, under instruction from the Ministry of Health.
The slow progress of building and maintaining dykes has caused concerns, with the stormy and rainy season approaching, reported Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper.
The HCM City Department of Health and Hóc Môn District People’s committee have launched a campaign to provide reproductive healthcare and birth control services to people working in industrial zones and living in economically disadvantaged areas.
Scientists and researchers from Việt Nam and Britain have come together for a five-day workshop in Hà Nội to seeks solutions to help the Red River-Hà Nội Delta (RRHD) develop a megacity catchment observatory to cope with multiple disasters in the future.
Prosecutors on May 23 said they were going for 30-36 month suspended sentence for doctor Hoàng Công Lương, one of the alleged offenders in the sensational trial for a medical disaster that resulted in the deaths of nine patients at the northern Hòa Bình General Hospital a year ago.
Southern Đồng Nai Province’s agriculture department said the unsual high level of NH4 (Amoni) and NO2 (Nitrite) may be the reason behind Monday’s mass fish deaths on the La Ngà River based on a test done on water sample collected at the site.
