Việt Nam News

The Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ will relocate 9,400 households with more than 37,000 members living along rivers and canals by 2030 to ensure their and waterway safety and sanitation, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Hà Nội wants to develop a new urban administration model for a more efficient and effective governance, Secretary of the Hà Nội Party Committee Hoàng Trung Hải said.

Human resource training needs to focus on creativity and soft skills and foster gender equality to meet the high demands imposed by the fourth industrial revolution, the rector of the HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities has said.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved the Vietnam Health Programme to improve the well-being, stature, lifespan and life quality of Vietnamese people.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta are earning more income from breeding more fish and other aquatic species in rice fields during the annual flood season. 

Blockchain technology is expected to enhance exports by providing a global trading identity, speakers at a blockchain conference held in HCM City said yesterday.

The HCM City’s People’s Committee has urged the city’s Department of  Planning and Architecture to complete its plan to open three more pedestrian streets.

Dozens of garment workers in the northern province of Yên Bái were taken to hospital after being exposed to toxic gas. The workers became ill after a large amount of oil was burnt due to an air compressor malfunction, pumping noxious fumes into the working area.

Northern regions are predicted to experience a warmer winter this year, with temperatures between 0.5 and 1 degrees Celcius higher than last year, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has said.

Lê Văn Thọ, Chairman of Phong Dụ Commune, Văn Yên District in the northern mountainous province of Yên Bái, confirmed yesterday that a 56-year-old Italian engineer was killed by falling rocks at a local quarry.

Two men suspected of robbing a bank in central Khánh Hòa Province have been arrested, said provincial police on Friday.

Preventive Medicine Centre of HCM City warned dengue, hand-foot and mouth disease, measles were increasing and threatening to be spread among children when a new school year came.  

Trần Đình Liệu, Deputy Director of Việt Nam Social Insurance, speaks to the newspaper Tiền Phong (Vanguard) on his agency’s target to have all Vietnamese students join the health insurance scheme

The central city-based University of Science and Technology has launched its first ‘smart’ building complex, offering one-stop administrative procedure shop, an international student guest house and multi-function building with total investment of VNĐ103 billion (US$4.5 million).

Lâm Đức Du, a forest ranger on Côn Đảo Island in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu, wakes up at midnight, picks up his flashlight and goes down to the beach to collect turtle eggs.

The brand of Ngọc Linh ginseng needs protection as a national one, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuân Phúc at a conference on developing Ngọc Linh ginseng and other medicinal herbs in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum yesterday.

Trà Vinh Province plans to use advanced technology in agriculture and increase production of specialty products, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, Ngô Chí Cường, has said.

A campaign of building clear, clean, green areas without uncontrollable garbage is being conducted by different organisations, enterprises, hotels, restaurants and households in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế.