Việt Nam News

Police on Thursday arrested two officials for their involvement in illegal land deals in Nam Định province, raising the number of arrested officials to six.

The health ministry of Việt Nam has won a Bloomberg Philanthropies award for its efforts to monitor tobacco use and prevention policies.

 The satellite data sharing system, Việt Nam Data Cube, has been introduced in the country, promising a satellite image database for Vietnamese earth observation satellite data users.

Việt Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth thanks in part to the significant contribution of the agriculture sector over the past 30 years. Despite the drastic changes, however, rural women still face numerous difficulties and challenges.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta, the country’s rice granary, expects to harvest around 11 million tonnes of paddy this winter – spring rice crop, one million tonnes more than last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Doctors in hospitals of HCM City have warned of an increase in diseases caused by streptococus pneumoniae bacteria, reported Tin Tức (News) online newspapers.

The number of chickenpox cases in the south has been on the rise, with many newborn babies getting infected, doctors said.

Collaboration across industry, academia and government is needed to both retrain the existing workforce and better prepare the next generation of graduates from secondary schools and universities to achieve optimal success with the fourth industrial revolution, a conference heard in HCM City on Thursday.

Local Vietnamese tech companies “are fully capable of” providing the core components of a smart city, Lê Ngọc Tuấn, head of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) division in one of the leading IT companies in the country, FPT.

A dialogue has been held between a working group of the southern ĐồngNai Province’s People’s Committee and hundreds of workers of a company whose managers have fled the country.

Five men were poisoned after eating deadly pufferfish, the Cần Thơ City General Hospital said on Thursday morning. Three of them are critical.

A restaurant in the tourist city of Đà Lạt, which assaulted two of its customers, has been suspended from operation, the city Market Management Board said on Thursday.

Police in the northern province of Quảng Ninh, in co-ordination with Hải Dương province, arrested a man for rape, after nearly 20 years of being on the run.  

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) is expecting the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to continue their technical and financial support for Vietnamese higher educational projects, said Minister of Education and Training Phùng Xuân Nhạ.

A roadmap to reduce food loss and wastage using cold chain technology is important to secure the future of food not only in Việt Nam but also elsewhere, experts told the 2018 World Cold Chain Summit.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has urged the organising board of the 6th Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS-6) Summit and 10th Cambodia-Laos-Việt Nam (CLV-10) Development Triangle Summit to prepare for these events.

An introductory session for elected officials on Integrated Early Childhood Development (IECD) was held yesterday by the National Assembly’s Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children, in partnership with the Ministry of Labour Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) and UNICEF.