Việt Nam News

As many as 50 residents in HCM City’s District 2 aired their grievances at a meeting held yesterday to discuss land reclamation and site clearance compensation for households that must move to make way for continued construction of the Thủ Thiêm new urban area in the district.

Many private pre-schools in Hà Nội are open and operating illegally regardless of regular inspections conducted by the city’s education authority.

The HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment is seeking investment for waste treatment facilities to be located in Củ Chi District.

Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City has continued to face the risk of being flooded in this rainy season as all of drainage canals are being blocked with trash.

The People’s Court of HCM City yesterday sentenced Bùi Hiếu Võ from the central province of Hà Tĩnh to four and a half years in prison for “conducting propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam”.

HCM City will undertake programmes this year to improve its universities and colleges to meet ASEAN accreditation standards.

Major banks are warning people not to be fooled by fake websites designed to steal account holders' cash.

Trà Vinh Province will relocate 873 households in erosion-prone areas with a total cost of VNĐ280 billion (US$12.3 million) in the 2018-20 period, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Two persons suspected of forgery were detained by the investigative police in the central province of Nghệ An on Tuesday. 

A humanitarian campaign was launched on May 8 to help poor fishermen in economic development and support them to maintain their fishing as well as protect the country’s sea and island sovereignty.

Two container trucks going in the same direction crashed into each other and exploded on Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm Street in coastal Hải Phòng city at around 3am on Wednesday morning.

A fire broke out at a 1,500sq.m warehouse of a paper company in Vĩnh Lộc Industrial Zone in HCM City’s Bình Chánh District early Wednesday morning.

An international conference with the theme “Science for Development” is taking place in Quy Nhon City, central province of Binh Dinh on May 9-10.

The cyber security law should be built on a careful assessment of its impacts on businesses and ensure the development of information technology and telecommunications, according to experts at a workshop in Hà Nội on Tuesday.

Việt Nam is facing an alarming shortage of qualified nursing care workers for the elderly. Most elderly people are cared for by their relatives or domestic helpers with little medical expertise, health experts say.

Nguyễn Chí Trung, director of the Hội An Centre for Relic Preservation and Management speaks to Tuổi trẻ newspaper on the imperative need to have strong legal documents to preserve the City.