Two wanted criminals were arrested yesterday after absconding for 10 years, according to the police of southern Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province. Trần Văn Chiến and Hồ Văn Được were wanted for the criminal acts of stealing underground cables, chargeable as a crime linked with destroying key national security-related works under the Criminal Code.
A Filipino crew member, who suffered a heart attack on his ship while sailing off the central city of Đà Nẵng, was saved yesterday by the search and rescue centre.
One person was killed on the spot and 19 others were injured after a 45-seater coach overturned and plunged into an abyss at about 3am on Thursday morning at Lò Xo Pass in the Central Highlands province of Kom Tum’s Đắk Glei District.
The Japanese Embassy on Wednesday held an assistant contract signing ceremony for seven projects within the framework of official development assistance from Japan in Việt Nam.
Trần Trung Hiếu, a farmer from An Giang Province’s Châu Thành District, not only cares for his orange garden, but does so using an invention he designed and built on his own.
Building a new terminal and more taxiways without building another runway and improving access to the airport are among the solutions suggested by a French consultancy for expanding HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất airport.
Despite improvements to the country’s infrastructure in recent years, especially in terms of transport, better quality planning that matches economic demands is still sorely lacking.
Drug-trafficking at Việt Nam’s borders continues to be a major issue, causing law enforcement officers to grow increasingly concerned.
Doctors from Xuyên Á Hospital have successfully performed the first kidney transplant done at a private medical facility in HCM City.
The Southern Airport Authority has fined a chief flight attendant of flight VN651 and three ground staff of Việt Nam Airport Ground Service Co Ltd’s Tân Sơn Nhất Branch VNĐ4 million (US$176) each for letting a foreign passenger board the wrong flight.
The HCM City People’s Court yesterday began the trial of 10 senior officials of Nam Việt Bank (Navibank) for “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management causing severe consequences”.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked relevant offices to push for automated toll collection on build-operation-transfer (BOT) highways across the country.
Five categories of automobile registration plates are expected to be auctioned online soon to serve people who desire to have their own unique registration plate as well as enrich the State budget.
Quy Nhơn Maritime Administration in the central province of Bình Định approved a plan on Tuesday to fish out two foreign ships that sank and broke in Quy Nhơn Bay.
The chairman of Hà Nội People’s Committee has asked the municipal Home Affairs Department to abort a plan of recruiting 1,000 public servants.
Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has urged the health sector to continue striving to care for people’s health as this is always among the top priorities in action programmes of the Party and the Government.
Lê Đình Quả, 37, was born in a farmer family in suburban Hà Nội. His parents are not well-off, but they tried their best to help Quả fulfill his studying with hope that he would have better future than them.
More than 8,000 enterprises nationwide currently owe social insurance premiums totalling some VNĐ2 trillion (US$87 million). These debts are very difficult to retrieve, with some even impossible to get, according to Việt Nam Social Insurance (VSI).
Bars in Hội An ancient city in the central province of Quảng Nam must reduce the volume of music from 10pm and stop serving before midnight every day, Nguyễn Văn Sơn, deputy chairman of the city People’s Committee told tuoitre.vn online newspaper.
The Đồng Tháp Province Department of Agriculture and Rural Development will earmark over 2,000 hectares of land for farming giant river prawns, most of it in Tam Nông, Thanh Bình, and Cao Lãnh districts and Hồng Ngự town.
