Việt Nam News

Six million people in Việt Nam managed to climb up the poverty ladder according to statistics released on Wednesday.

Việt Nam News reporter Nguyễn Hằng interviews Danish Ambassador Kim Højlund Christensen about the first-ever P4G – Partnering for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 – global summit in Copenhagen in October 19-20 with the attendance of Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, as well as the role of Việt Nam in the initiative as one of the founding member countries.

Farmers in Cà Mau Province breeding giant river prawns in their rice fields are harvesting what promises to be a bumper crop and are getting high prices for the crustacean since it is not the regular prawn season. 

HCM City authorities will redesign a proposal for a bus rapid transit (BRT) route after the Department of Transport said the plan was not feasible.

The emergence of new kinds of illicit drugs and increasingly complicated drug-related crimes have posed greater challenges for the world, including ASEAN, and necessitate renewed efforts from governments in the fight against drug abuse.

Child patients will be given priority in kidney transplants when there is a brain-dead or non-heart-beating donor under a new agreement on organ transplantation between three major hospitals in HCM City.

All defects along the central expressway have been repaired, main investor said, as construction quality of the infrastructure project came under fire

The Hà Nội People’s Committee will conduct the 2019 census of all Vietnamese living in the capital city starting on the morning of April 1 next year.

The Ministry of National Defense handed over 14.2 hectares of military land in Thành Tô and Cát Hải wards in Hải An District to the Hải Phòng City administration on Wednesday.

Authorities in the southern province of Đồng Nai have decided to dismantle illegal construction works at a big pig farm located on the riverhead of the Đồng Nai River in Định Quán District’s Túc Trưng Commune.

Việt Nam has reported no new cases of human infection with avian influenza viruses since the second half of 2014, an agriculture official said.

Fish have died en mass in Bình Thạnh Commune because farmers were forced to move their raising cages to avoid typhoon, causing a sudden and fatal shock.

Việt Nam’s first tissue bank was opened at Việt Đức Hospital in Hà Nội yesterday.

The application of financial autonomy for universities in Việt Nam is still on a trial basis and remains limited, according to experts.

Dengue fever in Hà Nội has declined since last month, down 95.8 per cent against the same period of last year, but the risk of contracting dengue fever is still present, warned Dr Nguyễn Nhật Cảm, director of the city’s Disease Control Centre.

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in smart city development will require high levels of investment to catch up with global trends, speakers at a conference held in HCM City said on October 16.

HCM City has set out a plan to use the Party’s assets more effectively based on market economy principles, according to the secretary of HCM City Party Committee.

Agricultural development is considered the most effective solution to ‘Zero Hunger’ and poverty reduction initiatives in Việt Nam, contributing to the realisation of sustainable development goals, said Lê Quốc Doanh, deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.