Việt Nam News

Residents engaged in breeding lobsters in the Xuân Đài Bay in Phú Yên are reeling under heavy losses following mass lobster deaths, the cause of which is still unknown.

Around 76,000 students in Hà Nội completed procedures on Thursday to attend the high school entrance exam.

The Lâm Đồng Department of Science and Technology on Wednesday imposed administrative fines on the Việt Khang Co Ltd for using fraudulent means to pilfer petrol and cheat customers.

Police in Hải Phòng, in co-ordination with the high-tech crime investigation department under the Ministry of Public Security, have broken up an online football betting operation worth VNĐ200 billion (US$8.8 million), arresting six people.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hoà Bình has urged four localities affected by last year’s environmental incident to accelerate the disbursement of compensation and complete the process by June 30.

The Ministry of Transport has proposed that the government invite investment from the private sector to complete the Yên Viên-Hạ Long-Cái Lân railway project.

Nguyễn Tiến Lãng, 79, and Nguyễn Công Uẩn, 80, are war veterans who were willing to sacrifice their lives for the country.

Dozens of planned urban development projects on the outskirts of Hà Nội have not been completed, turning into ghost towns and a source of misery for residents and investors.

The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed District 8 authorities to speed up land acquisition and compensation payment to enable the construction of an aromatic substances and chemical trading centre by the beginning of next year.

Fulbright University Việt Nam (FUV) has received two grants worth US$15.5 million from the US Government.

Police have apprehended several people across the country for illegal possession and transportation of drugs over the past few days.

Vietnamese embassy in Indonesia and Indonesian agencies were finalising repatriation procedures for 690 Vietnamese fishermen it captured for illegally fishing in its waters.

The Ministry of Education and Training on Tuesday said that all the six Vietnamese candidates participating in the Asian Olympic Information Technology 2017 had won medals.

The An Giang People’s Court on Tuesday sentenced a 60-year-old Cambodian woman to two years and three months of imprisonment for illegally transporting money and gold via the border.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered food management agencies to heighten focus on food safety management following a food safety debate of the National Assembly (NA) on Monday.  

The Government has agreed to extend the visa exemption policy for citizens from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy, said Mai Tiến Dũng, Minister-Chairman of the Government Office.

The Đông Thạnh Waste Treatment Complex in HCM City’s Hóc Môn District will terminate operations and relocate to the Phước Hiệp Complex in Củ Chi District by January, 2019.

Việt Nam needs tools to calculate damage relating to climate change impacts to improve natural disaster response and mitigation work, deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoàng Văn Thắng said yesterday.