Việt Nam News

The People’s Court of Hà Nội today sentenced 11 defendants in a fraud case that occurred at the Agriculture and Rural Development Bank, Nghệ An Branch, eight years ago.

The northern province of Quảng Ninh has decided to crack down on shops that sell souvenirs at astronomical rates and tourist companies that offer substandard tours.

Opportunities to invest in Việt Nam’s solar energy sector are abundant after Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc issued a decision to encourage the development of solar power projects.

HCM City authorities are struggling to reach the target of having wastewater treatment systems at all export processing zones, industrial parks and industrial complexes by 2020.

HCM City authorities have asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment and Ministry of Finance to allocate an additional VNĐ48.762 trillion (US$2.14 billion) of official development assistance (ODA) in the next three years, with VNĐ8 trillion ($352.33 million) allocated for this year.

Big data research is the key element to help Việt Nam boost the Internet of Things (IoT) and apply smart urban technology, the rector of the Korea-Việt Nam Friendship Information Technology College, Hoàng Bảo Hùng, said at the opening of the 7th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICTST) in Đà Nẵng yesterday.

Of the 407 petrol stations to be opened in HCM City from now until 2030, 62 of them will be on boats on local waterways.

An appeal court in HCM City on Monday upheld the death sentence of a Vietnamese-born Australian national for trafficking heroin.

Rhino horns weighing nearly 5kg were seized at the Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport on Sunday, HCM City’s Customs reported.

A mobile explosive ordnance disposal team of Peace Trees Việt Nam in central Quảng Trị Province on Sunday cleared 22 cluster bombs left from the war in Hương Hóa District. The shrapnel bombs, which belonged to the US army, were found in the garden of a resident in Tân Thành Commune.

A protest against toll collection by local residents at Cầu Rác toll station in Cẩm Xuyên District disrupted traffic for two hours on Sunday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has given the investment green light to building two large-scale reservoirs with capacities of nearly a million cu.m each..

When asked how many bridges had been built as a result of his fund-raising efforts, farmer Mai Văn Võ, a former war veteran, had no idea.

Việt Nam aims to increase the nationwide forest coverage to 42 per cent by the year 2020, and 45 per cent by 2030.

A project to develop the Buôn Ma Thuột coffee brand is expected to benefit more than 15,000 farmers who live in a poor commune in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình has asked authorities of the central Quảng Nam Province to investigate reports of illegal gold exploitation in the Bồng Miêu mine area.

When municipal authorities issued a Decision No.18 in 2011 on granting preferential loans to landlords for building and upgrading houses to rent to workers, it was widely welcomed.

HCM City’s People’s Committee has set up an interdisciplinary inspection team to check food safety across the city during an action month for food safety that kicked off last Saturday.