Việt Nam News

Việt Nam is among the countries in the Asia-Pacific with an alarming incidence of gestational diabetes, Dr Lê Quang Thanh, head of Từ Dũ Hospital in HCM City, has said.

The relatives of nine victims who died due to contaminated dialysis machines asked a court on Monday to acquit one of the defendants in the case.

Four members of a family, including an 18-month-old baby, were struck by lightning on Monday afternoon inside their house in central Nghệ An province’s Quỳ Hợp commune.

Population and 50 per cent of farming area in the Island of Lý Sơn District, 30km off the coast of Quảng Ngãi Province have been salinised in early dry season this year, reducing area of purple onion – a major crop – in the island from 170ha to 50ha.

Nearly 28,000 high school teachers around the country are set to benefit from a programme meant for continuous professional development of teachers and principals to improve their capacity to teach the new curriculum.

Farmers in Trà Vinh Province are lending their land for free to poor farmers as a way of helping families escape poverty.

The 12th National Press Awards 2017 were held in Hà Nội on June 21 on the occasion of Việt Nam's Revolutionary Journalism Day, with 105 stories being credited.

As the Northern and Central regions have been sweltered for weeks, hospitals have received huge influxes of patients who suffered from heat-related illnesses.

Nguyễn Văn Thắng had decided to quit a job as a masonry to study Korean language with a dream of working in the Republic of Korea to support his family.

Cần Thơ, the biggest and most modern in Mekong Delta region, is expected to be a smart city by 2025.

The Cai Lậy BOT toll station in the Mekong Delta province of Tiền Giang is scheduled to re-open in June after operation was suspended for over six months.

With one gold medal, four silver medals and two bronze medals, the Việt Nam team ranked the third out of 31 countries and territories in the Asia Informatics Olympiad 2018.

Three Indian naval ships—frigate Sahyadri, fleet tanker Shakti and anti-submarine stealth corvette Kamorta—with 900 crew members began a four-day friendly visit at Đà Nẵng City’s Tiên Sa Port on May 21.

Land erosions have caused major damage to property in Cà Mau Province’s Năm Căn District, the Vietnam News Agency reported on May 20. 

The Năm Căn-Đất Mũi road section on the Hồ Chí Minh National Expressway is expected to be finished by June 2018, a project management board representative said on Sunday. The 7.4km road in the southern province of Cà Mau is the last section of the expressway, which was financed with VNĐ3.9 trillion (US$172 million) in government bonds.

The body of Thi An Kiện, 24, a backpacker, who was previously reported missing on May 12, was found on Sunday in the coastal central province of Bình Thuận’s Phan Dũng Commune.

 Hà Nội ranked first in the national professional skill test this year with 15 gold medals, two silver medals and 11 bronze medals.

Construction work on a new 1,000-bed hospital in Đức Hòa District in the southern province of Long An has started.