Việt Nam News

Hoàng Trung, director general of the Plant Protection Department, talks to the newspaper Nông thôn Ngày nay (Countryside Today) on his department’s resolve to eliminate low quality fertiliser from the market

The safe corridor along HCM City-Trung Lương Expressway has been seriously infringed, reported the Vietnam News Agency. The fence along the highway was set up with steel nets and barbed wires to separate the highway from the residential areas to ensure traffic safety.

Three products of famous French brand Dior were recalled from circulation, reported online newspaper Vietnamplus.vn.

The People’s Court of Hà Nội on Monday morning opened an appeal to charge three defendants in a fire at a karaoke shop in late 2016.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Sunday presented certificates of merit to 10 young people for outstanding achievements in 2017.

Something smells funny on Lý Sơn Island, as the mass trading of fake garlic has hurt the island’s signature trade.

The central city of Đà Nẵng has asked the government to plan part of Đà Nẵng Bay as an ‘urban area in the sea’, in an effort to meet the demands of a rising population and to attract tourism investment.

Nguyễn Ngọc Hoàng is a man on a mission. He turns up at University to study two days of the week but the rest of the time he turns up somewhere else - at the farm to help sell turnips. He is one of a number of volunteers who give up their spare time to help farmer sell their vegetables.

The coefficient used for land price adjustments, called the K coefficient, will increase by 0.1 in each circumstance, according to a regulation included in a decision by the HCM City People’s Committee. It will take effect on March 25.

Vietnam saved 485,000 kWh of electricity, equivalent to VNĐ834 million (US$36,612), during the Earth Hour from 8:30pm-9:30pm of Saturday, according to the National Load Dispatch Centre.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hoà Bình yesterday ordered the authorities of HCM City to take good care of the victims of the fire accident that killed 13 last week.

An unlicensed doctor in the central province of Nghệ An was fined VNĐ50 million (US$2,200) for performing an unsafe abortion that killed a local woman.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has asked the Transport Ministry to review transport planning in the Mekong Delta and seek better links among modes of transport in the region.

The central provincial Women’s Union, in co-operation with PeaceTrees Việt Nam (PTVN), has put into operation a kindergarten in Tà Lênh village of Đăkrông district – the 12th of its kind – with funding from donors.

The bodies of two fishermen were discovered in a fishing vessel that sank in the waters off the southern province of Bạc Liêu last week, local marine rescue officials reported yesterday.

Three sailors were rescued from a sunken towage vessel in Vũng Tàu City of the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu.

 Fire broke out at a clothing factory in the early hour of Sunday morning causing what official fear may be "total damage".