Việt Nam News

The HCM City People’s Court yesterday sentenced Phạm Công Danh, the former chairman of the board of Việt Nam Construction Bank (VNCB), to 20 years in prison for “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management, causing severe consequences” at VNCB.

Vietnamese students competing at the World Invention Creativity Olympic (WICO) 2018 achieved high results with three teams bringing home gold medals and one team winning a silver medal.

Logistics enterprises in HCM City asked the city authorities to allow goods to be transferred by metro to reduce cost and traffic jam at peak hours, the online news outlet zing.vn reports.

The construction of An Dương-Thanh Niên overpass, a key project in Hà Nội, lags behind schedule with many parts incomplete, causing serious traffic congestion for vehicles passing through this route.

Hưng Yên Province has raised the alarm over environmental pollution as many local companies continue to discharge untreated wastewater despite strict punishments by authorities.

Many transport enterprises may have to spend trillions of đồng to replace their current black box recording devices with new ones if draft regulations on transport trading are approved.

Recently, children living near Nậm Mức stream in Búng Giắt Village in the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên have started to risk their lives fishing wood from the swiftly-flowing floodwaters.

Job seekers can turn to a new smartphone app iWORK in a bid to find work. The app is also available to help those looking for staff find the right employee.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a planning scheme on exploring, exploiting, processing and using tin, tungsten and antimony by 2025 with a vision towards 2035. 

Delegates from more than 300 universities from over 30 countries worldwide have participated in the One Asia Convention Hanoi 2018 – Hope for the Future in Hà Nội.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang has 2,000ha of industrial and semi-industrial shrimp farming models, or 79 per cent of its target for the year.

The HCM City administration has asked the Department of Planning and Architecture to work with agencies to propose adjustments to resettlement areas in the Thủ Thiêm new urban area.

Residents in HCM City’s Bình Tân District have been forced to burn piles of uncollected waste left on Bình Long Street after companies dumped the waste in the area at night, according to people living on the streets.

Long queues of people lining up for health checks are a common scene at public hospitals, and many have to wait for a day until they can see a doctor.

Three years after beginning a pilot programme to buy solar power at VNĐ2,000 (8.7 US cents) per kWh generated in homes and offices, HCM City has signed up 290 consumers.

State-owned businesses must undergo an urgent review of their assets before they can be equitised over the next two years.

Hydropower projects in the central province of Nghệ An are causing problems for local people due to poor planning that has damaged the environment and led to the threat of damn breaches during the rainy season.

More than 1,700 households in three remote communes in the mountainous province of Lai Châu are temporarily isolated due to prolong heavy rains, Vietnam News Agency reported yesterday.