Việt Nam News

The use of made-in-Việt Nam medicines at provincial-level hospitals has risen to 35.4 per cent since the Ministry of Health initiated an ongoing project named “Vietnamese people give priority to using made-in-Việt Nam medicines” in 2012.

To lay the foundation for turning into a smart city, HCM City continues to encourage the use of information technology in administration with a focus on e-governance.

Farmers in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province are earning good money by growing Gotu Kola, a plant used for daily meals as vegetable and an ingredient in herbal medicine, commercially.

The Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Đắk Nông is working hard to ensure its more than 250,000ha of forests are not affected by fires during the dry season, which will last until the end of March.

A slew of infrastructure works has begun or been speeded up across the country after Tết (the Lunar New Year) holiday.

Up to 170 Vietnamese websites were attacked during the week-long Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday, the Authority of Information Security under the Ministry of Information and Communications has reported. 

People say that the youth are fleeing small towns and are fleeing to urban centres, near and far, in the hope of finding jobs and realising their dreams. The remoter the rural area, the greater the desire to leave. However, there are a few 'millennials' who are ready to buck against this trend.

Vietnamese farmers want to raise pigs on large farms but have little experience in treating large amount of livestock waste, according to an environmental researcher from the Việt Nam Environment Administration (VEA).

In many sea ports across Việt Nam, it takes vessels about 15 minutes or less to enter or leave the ports if business already submit required dossiers online, Vietnam News Agency has reported.

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Two hailstorms occurred yesterday afternoon in central Nghệ An Province, blowing away the roofs of hundreds of houses in two communes, local authorities said.

Six people were seriously injured after a pick-up truck lost control and crashed into three motorbikes and a taxi on Wednesday afternoon in the central province of Thanh Hóa.

Ngô Văn Tính, 19, a diver with seven years’ experience, went to sea with his father when he was a child and had his first dive at 12.

To make a name for oneself in a foreign country is no mean feat, but to do that in Japan, that too in the early seventies and eighties, takes extraordinary resolve and perseverance, qualities that Trần Ngọc Phúc has displayed in ample measure.

As many as 265,106 civil servants will be included in the State payroll this year, a year-on-year decrease of about 4,000, according to a Prime Minister’s decision that takes effect this month.

The project of recruiting 500 youth volunteers who are the nation’s best and brightest to work as civil servants in rural and mountainous communes in the period 2013-20, often called Project 500, has reached significant achievements.

Shortcomings and violations in Hà Nội’s sidewalk paving have been pointed out after two months of investigation.

HCM City has announced several criteria for selecting bidders for waste-to-energy projects this year.