Việt Nam News

Da Nang’s Dong A College has enrolled students for the first ever course on automobile technology and automation engineering in the central region.

With the amount of water stored up to 175 millions of cubic metres on high position, the major dam of Núi Cốc Lake in northern Thái Nguyên Province would cause unpredictable consequences to downstream areas if it broke, experts have said.

National Assembly deputies said yesterday that the Law on Forest Protection and Development had not clearly identified responsibility for forest protection nor encouraged people to participate seriously in protecting the country’s trees.

Việt Nam has repatriated remains believed to be of US soldiers who died during the Viet Nam War. 

Public transport management in HCM City has greatly improved compared to five or seven years ago, thanks to modern technologies, experts say.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the Ministry of National Defence to halt all construction work related to auxiliary infrastructure for a golf course in the vicinity of Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport, including a golf school, villas and luxury apartments.

A ceremony to unveil a plaque for a road named after Trần Kim Xuyến, Việt Nam’s first journalist-martyr and the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)’s first leader, was held in Phố Châu town, Hương Sơn district, the central province of Hà Tĩnh on Saturday. 

As least seven waterway tourism products will be developed in HCM City by 2020, according to its tourism development plan.

Trần Thị Diễm Sương was about to enter her third year of university when her mother told her she could no longer afford to pay her tuition and living expenses in HCM City. 

Only 30 three-wheeled vehicles have been licenced to operate in Hà Nội, whereas up to 99 per cent of the remaining three-wheelers in the city are illegal, the Hà Nội Police Department says.

Heavy downpours are expected in the northern region until Wednesday, with warnings of flash floods and landslides in mountainous provinces.

The Mekong Delta, home to some 18 million inhabitants, is plagued by severe riverbank erosion, which has been blamed on climate change and human factors.

The extension of an insurance subsidy scheme for offshore fishing households until the end of this year has failed to benefit anyone.

Administration of public lands should be tightened to increase HCM City’s revenues, a city People’s Council meeting heard recently.

A Không (Zero) Đồng shop that offers donated clothing and household appliances is seeing a brisk business in the Cuu Long (Mekong Delta) province of An Giang.  

Northern provinces hold considerable untapped aquaculture potential, according to a conference held in the northern province of Tuyên Quang yesterday.

Residents of the central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province gathered in Lăng Cô Bay to protest the construction of a stone dyke that they say will affect water flow in the bay.

Viet Nam has posted the highest regional increase in minimum wages over the last three years, more than Indonesia and China, but workers still struggle to make ends meet.