Việt Nam News

The building of new thermopower plants has recently become a cause célèbre in the country as economic demands and environmental concerns face off, especially with a number of localities rejecting central Government-approved plants.

Hà Nội administration needs to enact a group of comprehensive measures to improve traffic safety in the city.

Việt Nam is advised to compile a national framework for a supply chain to provide safe pork to serve the domestic market.

The central city of Đà Nẵng and Danapha Pharmaceutical JSC have launched a herb farm in a rural mountainous area near the city to provide products used in oriental medicine.

Police in the southern city of Cần Thơ plan to propose less harsh punishments on foreign currency exchanges at unlicensed organisations after a citizen was fined VNĐ90 million (US$4,000) for trading a $100 banknote at a local jewellery shop.

Police on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for the owner of a BMW who allegedly killed one woman and injured another six after she drove into several vehicles at a traffic light in HCM City last weekend.

Two more Vietnamese universities won places on a list of Asia’s top universities, bringing to seven the country’s number of universities on the list compiled by the London-based education consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

A couple from the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Lâm Đồng has been fined VNĐ30 million (US$1,300) for carrying cash exceeding the permitted amount without customs declaration when checking out for international exit at airport.

 Vietwater 2018, an international exhibition on water supply and sewerage, will be organised from November 7 to 9 this year at the Sài Gòn Exhibition and Convention Centre in HCM City.

The ancient city of Hội An has opened a wastewater treatment station to collect and clean 2,000 cubic metres of wastewater before pumping into the Hoài River whilst stopping pollution around its famous Japanese Bridge.

The Central Highlands Province of Gia Lai has deployed screening and surveillance programs in all the villages and households in the province to eradicate leprosy.

Patients taking intravenous therapy must strictly follow their doctor’s prescription to minimise possible side effects, doctors affirmed after recent tragedies have illustrated the dangers of intravenous medicines.

Local authorities in the Mekong Delta are taking serious measures to prevent flooding caused by high tides during the annual flood season in the area.

Doctors from Đà Nẵng-Hoàn Mỹ Hospital have successful operated on a five-month-old baby with congenital heart disease. The child is now fully recovered 10 days after surgery.

First piloted on downtown streets of Trần Hưng Đạo and Lý Thường Kiệt in Hoàn Kiếm District, the iParking service is now being deployed at 156 spots in seven urban districts.

Site clearance for the construction of the new Long Thành International Airport in the southern province of Đồng Nai remains slow, according to authorities.

Many Năm Roi grapefruit gardens in Bình Minh Town in the southern province of Vinh Long are damaged after being submerged by the highest tide seen in the last 40 years.

The Finance Ministry has asked the Ministry of Transport not to grant business licences to shipping lines that transport scrap that includes waste and pollutants to Việt Nam.