Việt Nam News

Dr Giang’s family is the first in Việt Nam to register to donate their organs and tissues. Mai An and Mai Chi (An’s older sister) are among first adolescents in the country to hold registration cards for organ and tissue donation.

The honorary South African Consul in HCM City on Jan 16 launched a community-based programme called Nhà Sạch Đón Tết (Cleaning House to Welcome Tết) to raise funds for Lunar New Year charity activities.

The vice chairman of Bình Dương Province People’s Committee has urged agencies to raise awareness about labour laws among employers and labourers in a bid to settle collective labour disputes and strikes in the province.

Việt Nam and China agreed to boost co-operation in humanitarian activities, especially in international humanitarian aid, cooperation between Mekong basin countries and human resource development.

Dozens of lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer women (LBTQ) from 15 cities and provinces across Việt Nam gathered in Hà Nội in the last two days for a workshop.

Explosive device specialists on Wednesday successfully exploded 260 wartime bombs taken from a scrap warehouse in central Quảng Trị Province.

Local authorities have attributed overloading as the initial cause for the scaffolding collapse in Hà Nội’s Nam Từ Liêm District.

A sewer line of an apatite factory in northern Lào Cai Province broke on Wednesday, flooding some local households and their crops.

Two people were killed and three others were injured after a car crashed into a truck in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk on Thursday.

HCM City Customs Department has collected more than VNĐ109 trillion (US$ 4.8 billion) in export-import duty revenues in 2017, translating to an increase of 7.75 per cent compared to 2016.

After graduation from Hà Nội’s National Economic University, all the friends of Bachelor of Economics Vũ Văn Lực sought jobs in the city. But Lực decided to return to his homeland in the northern mountainous province of Sơn La to realize his dream of cultivating strawberries.

The Ministry of Construction has again proposed that water and electricity be cut off at illegal constructions although this solution stopped in 2015 because of its inconsistency with regulations.

Phạm Công Danh told the court yesterday that he had transferred VNĐ600 billion (US$27 million) to Hứa Thị Phấn, a former high-level advisor of Trust Bank, and had used VNĐ500 billion ($22.7 million) to increase registered capital at VNCB.

The current national response to HIV fails to adequately respond to the diverse needs and rights of the main affected groups – women and girls.

The People’s Committee of northern mountainous Hà Giang Province has found many small hydropower plants in the locality violating norms.

Transport researchers have suggested banning the use of mobile phone while car driving as it threatens road safety.

The Directorate for Roads has asked investors of road projects under Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contracts to ban cars from parking for over five minutes at toll stations.