Việt Nam News

The Government Inspectorate has urged HCM City People’s Committee to resolve residents’ complaints in the Thủ Thiêm New Urban Area by the end of this month.

Financial and tax experts agreed that Việt Nam's corporate tax is too generous which might lead to insufficient State budget, hurting its development programmes.

The central city of Đà Nẵng recently announced plans to build a flyover at the busy junction of the Trần Thị Lý Bridge and a two-tunnel project at another junction west of the Rồng (Dragon) bridge with total investment of VNĐ935 billion (US$41.3 million).

ASEAN countries have acknowledged the continuing threat from illicit drug production and trafficking  in the region, including challenges posed by new psychoactive substances, the Sixth ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Drug Matters heard.

A number of start-up projects and models are being showcased at the two-day Technology Show and Start-up and Innovative Summit that opened in HCM City yesterday (October 18).

Many areas in Quảng Ngãi City are overrun by rubbish while residents await the completion of a new waste treatment plant.

The Department of Animal Health and Husbandry in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highland) province of Đắk Lắk on Wednesday (Oct 17) culled 2,500 ducks infected with the A/H5N6 bird flu virus.

Medical officials perform first aid on a Canadian tourist in the waters of the southernmost province of Vũng Tàu on Thursday.

Việt Nam Social Insurance is among the State-owned agencies that utilise technology most effectively in data management, Minister and Chairman of the Office of the Government Mai Tiến Dũng said yesterday.

Toyota Motors Việt Nam (TMV) yesterday granted scholarships worth VNĐ690 million to 115 excellent students from 16 universities nationwide.

Construction on a second facility for the Blood Transfusion Hematology Hospital started yesterday (Oct 17) in HCM City’s Bình Chánh Distrist.

A primary school built using funds from Azerbaijan’s Heydar Aliyev Foundation was inaugurated in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang Province’s Giáp Trung Commune on Wednesday.

Rescue ship SAR 413, belonging to Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No 3, took Joe Vanier, an ill 53-year-old Canadian man, to the mainland in the southern province of Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu at 7:45 am on Thursday.

Individuals and organisations across the country have donated a total of nearly VNĐ3 trillion (US$129 million) to the Fund for the Poor and the Social Security Programme for the year.

Việt Nam had set up its fully integrated forestry information database, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) said at a conference in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

Police in the northern mountainous province of Bắc Kạn arrested four people for trafficking 198 cakes of heroin, weighs nearly 70 kilos, in Tú Trĩ Commune on Wednesday.

One person was killed and 13 were injured in a shipping accident on Wednesday in the northern province of Quảng Ngãi.

Farmers and workers in the informal sector are often reluctant to buy voluntary social insurance because they do not understand its benefits and lack knowledge about the programme, according to the Viet Nam Social Security agency, according to the Việt Nam Social Security agency.