Việt Nam News

The sudden return of a soldier thought long perished in Cambodia back in the 80s brought immense joys to his relatives, but puzzled authorities over what to do with the benefits his family has received in two decades.

Based on the average monthly salary, employees in HCM City earn the highest, according to the latest report of the job website, VietnamWorks.

Police in the central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province busted a large-scale gambling racket on early Monday morning after months of monitoring.

Minister of Transport Nguyễn Văn Thể has set the target of installing e-tags on 3.2 million motorised vehicles by the end of this year to enable electronic toll collection (ETC) at Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) stations in the following year. 

Illegal structures on the estate of a historic villa in the tourist city of Đà Lạt will be forcefully removed if the owner fails to do so by March 15.

Japan’s Chiba Prefecture court announced on Tuesday that the trial of the man accused of murdering a nine-year-old Vietnamese girl last year would begin on June 4.

Following the alleged misappropriation of VNĐ245 billion (US$10.78 million) from an Eximbank customer’s account, many banks are now enabling their customers to check their accounts online.

Food enterprises now have rights to self-announce their products’ quality, and self-responsible for their announcement.

The implementation of a project called Co-operation to Develop Long Xuyên Quadrilateral Sustainably involving several provinces in the Mekong Delta will help exploit the region’s advantages, according to experts.

While a student condominium project has been halted due to a capital shortage, plans to give it a second life as a social housing complex have run aground due to the failure of Hà Nội authorities and the Ministry of Construction to compromise.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Monday granted the Vietnamese Women newspaper a merit certificate acknowledging their contribution to the women’s empowerment since the Đổi mới (Renewal) era.

The central city of Đà Nẵng will allocate funds of VNĐ3.3 trillion (US$146 million) to build a new drainage system and upgrade sewage works to deal with possible floods this year.

Việt Nam must exploit its water resources more efficiently if it is to ensure the remaining 4.5 million local people without tap water gain access, while at the same time the growing population and economy put additional strain on water capacity.

The blooming lucrative business of raising edible-nest swiftlets has led Mekong Delta families to race to turn their own homes into potential birdhouses—a process in which they play an all-day siren call to attract the birds.

Việt Nam Railways (VNR) has proposed a project to the Ministry of Transport to repair and upgrade 100 level crossings on the North-South railway route.

The Vinh Airport in northern Nghệ An Province will be fined VNĐ40 million (US$1,800) after a man without a boarding card was caught boarding a flight. 

The People’s Court here on Monday opened the first-instance criminal hearing of nine former officials who are allegedly responsible for the rupture of the Đà River pipeline 18 times.

The capital’s Social Insurance has announced it would coordinate with the city’s inspectors in compiling a list of enterprises that have owed social insurance debt for a long time.