Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Health (MoH) on Thursday proposed to raise the tax on tobacco at a press conference on tobacco prevention hosted by the Ministry of Information and Communication.

HCM City People’s Committee has asked the city’s Department of Education and Training to pilot a project to install cameras in public and private kindergartens starting this school year.

The investigative police unit in HCM City has issued a decision to arrest Nguyễn Văn Tùng, investor of the Carina Plaza in the city as part of an investigation into a serious blaze that occurred on March 23 and killed 13 people.

Doctors at HCM City’s Chợ Rẫy Hospital said yesterday (April 20) that they successfully performed organ transplants for five persons using organs from a brain-dead donor.

Six members of a transnational drug smuggling ring received the death sentence on Thursday in northern Quảng Ninh Province.

The northern province of Sơn La People’s Committee has proposed the Government approve the Hòa Bình- Mộc Châu Expressway project to better connect two northern provinces of Hòa Bình and Sơn La as well as Hà Nội and northwestern provinces.

The Hải Hà District Police in the northern province of Quảng Ninh on Thursday caught two men discharging 2,000 litres of untreated waste water into a paddy field in Quảng Phong Commune, Hải Hà District.

A local couple in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng was rescued on Thursday after being buried for an hour by a landslide.

The People’s Court of HCM City on Friday announced sentences for 25 defendants accused of stealing 500,000 litres of airplane fuel from the National Airlines of Việt Nam (Vietnam Airlines).

Blue-green algae have been reported on the surface of Hoàn Kiếm (Returned Sword) Lake in the past few days.

Many fishing boats were seized by Cà Mau Province Border Guard on Thursday for illegally transferring oil in Cà Mau province sea.

The Medical Services Administration, under the Ministry of Health (MoH), and Shire Singapore Ltd. signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today.

Increasing links between farm co-operatives and enterprises is part of measures raised during a workshop yesterday to help ensure sustainable development for the agricultural sector of Hà Nội.

The central city and FPT, a Việt Nam software giant, officially inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on building Đà Nẵng as a ‘smart city’ in 2018-20.

Secretary of the HCM Party Committee Nguyễn Thiện Nhân has called on the IT and telecommunications sectors to work closely with local agencies in smart-city development.

Passengers buying train tickets 20 days in advance of their journey will have the price reduced, ranging from 20 per cent to 50 per cent, the Sài Gòn Railway Transport JSC has announced.

The Tri Phương River Port Project was launched on Wednesday in Tiên Du District, Bắc Ninh Province, with Bắc Kì Investment Joint Stock Company as its main investor.