Việt Nam News

University students and other young people interested in an eco-friendly lifestyle are participating in Ecoweek that kicked off yesterday (October 26) at the HCM City University of Economics.

Fish died en masse along the Truồng Mối Canal in Can Lộc District because of polluted water leaking from the Lộc Hà rubbish dump, said the local natural resources and environment department on Friday.

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN) has ordered the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) toll station on National Highway No.1 running through central Bình Định Province to postpone toll collection from October 29 due to the poor quality of the road.

Three fires broke out yesterday in central Nghệ An Province, destroying a number of properties. Fortunately, no fatalities were reported.

The Innovative Technopreneurs Contest, an annual event for the Vietnamese start-up community, is officially open for registration from now until November 5.

Forty nine infants with congenital defects have been saved by the HCM City Children’s Hospital this year thanks to close co-operation between obstetricians and pediatricians, experts told the 13^th National Paediatric Surgery Conference that opened on October 25.

Traffic congestion has cost Hà Nội between US$1 and 1.2 billion per year and has made air pollution five times worse, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy under the Ministry of Transport said.

Border guards in central Hà Tĩnh Province have detained two men for smuggling 32kg of ecstasy and ten bricks of heroin, equivalent to 3.5kg of heroin, from Laos to Việt Nam.

One year after a surgery for cataracts, 75-year-old Trần Thị Tuyết from the northern province of Nam Định is worried about her vision once again. Over the last few days, everything started to go blurry.

Việt Nam jumps forward two positions to reach the 45^th place on the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2018 released by World Intellectual Property Organisation.

It is rare to see a male kindergarten teacher anywhere in Việt Nam. But deep in the mountains of the northern province of Yên Bái, some men are smashing the unspoken prejudice by showing they can dance and sing and take care of the children as well as anyone.

Nearly 9,000 State employees in Hà Nội’s State agencies have been made redundant so far this year.

The device is the brainchild of Nguyễn Thanh Trung, a second-year student at HCM City University of Information Technology.

The Asia Injury Prevention Foundation and its partners donated helmets to 500 students of Bá Hiến B Primary School in Vĩnh Phúc Province under its Helmets for Kids programme to teach road safety to and raise awareness of helmet usage among teachers and students.

Local authorities in central Nghệ An Province have decided to stop granting licences to new hydropower projects in the province, highlighting the damage caused by the plants.

Fifty four disadvantaged university students in HCM City received scholarships each worth US$350 from the Lotte Foundation at a ceremony on Wednesday (October 24).

One person died and eight others were injured in two bee attacks in Hữu Kiểm Commune, local authorities in Kỳ Sơn District, the central province of Nghệ An reported.

The annual Pink Hat Day which will take place this Sunday at Crescent Mall in HCM City’s District 7 is calling for hair donations to support breast cancer patients.