“What could a bank note of VNĐ1,000 (US0.43 cents) buy?” you may wonder as you contemplate an accumulated stack of small money. On a small islet in the Mekong Delta of Sóc Trăng, an eatery offers an answer: meals there priced at VNĐ1,000 not only satisfy customers’ stomachs but also fill their hearts and souls.
The HCM City government has instructed its Department of Planning and Investment to invite bids for the long-delayed Bình Qưới – Thanh Đa urban area project in Bình Thạnh District.
As reliance on information technology becomes ever more pervasive in society, cyber crime has grown rapidly both in quantity and sophistication in Việt Nam, experts say.
Provincial and city authorities plan to evacuate people from dangerous areas before typhoon 4 is expected to enter the Gulf of Tonkin and bring heavy rain to northern and north central provinces in the coming days.
Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến has asked large hospitals in HCM City to take drastic measures to reduce patient overload by focusing on satellite clinics at district-level hospitals and applying information technology.
The central province of Quảng Nam has agreed a pre-feasibility study for the development of an International Education City in Nam Hội An with proposed investment of VNĐ1.5 trillion (US$66.4 million).
Dozens of residents of a mountainous commune in the northern province of Phú Thọ fear they might have contracted HIV after receiving from a local doctor injections that were allegedly contaminated.
The People’s Committee of HCM City plans to make District 2 a central district of the city.
The HCM City school system faces a shortage of facilities and teachers for physical education classes for the upcoming school year.
HCM City is mulling a make over for Nguyễn Huệ Pedestrian Street in District 1.
A doctor in Hà Nội has raised concerns about the high number of children hospitalised with high fevers and rashes, suspecting that measles is to blame because many kids have not been vaccinated.
Chairman of the Bình Phước Province People’s Committee Nguyễn Văn Trăm on Sunday asked for an inspection on the work of supporting cashew nut farmers who suffered losses in the period 2016-17.
A suspension bridge was damaged after being hit by a truck, seriously affecting the lives of residents in Chiềng Khoong Commune in the northern mountainous province of Sơn La.
As part of a new project, Hà Nội will introduce digital prescriptions to better monitor patients receiving too many medicines or food supplements, and stop people being prescribed the incorrect drugs.
A tropical low-pressure system near the East Sea has gained strength and become a typhoon – internationally named Bebinca – on Monday morning.
Vietnamese students have gained one silver medal and four bronze medals at the 2018 World Mathematics Olympiad.
With a rapidly aging population and declining fertility, Japan had to adopt a more open-door approach towards foreign workers to staff its labour-strapped industries, with Vietnamese workers among the fastest growing groups.
Members of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Saturday weighed in on the draft architecture law for the first time, demanding the law incorporate a combination of technical and artistic perspectives.