Việt Nam News

The chairman of the HCM City’s People’s Committee has urged the Department of Transport to replace unqualified investors of underground parking lot projects that have been delayed for more than 10 years.

Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust yesterday (March 23) met with leaders of HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH) to extend co-operation between the two schools in the upcoming time.

Wild elephant habitats in the southern province of  Đồng Nai are being reduced and degraded, leading to a lack of food and more conflicts between animals and humans, according to local authorities.

The Sơn Trà Nature Reserve – the green lung of Đà Nẵng - will turn into a desert, and the world’s biggest population of red-shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nemaeus) will become extinct unless  rapid development of hotels and resorts there is not stopped.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee said yesterday it had ordered atmospheric water generators, which extracted water from humid air, to serve locals and tourists.

More solutions were urgently in need to ensure Việt Nam’s food security as climate change was no longer a risk but already hitting across the country, said an agricultural deputy minister on Wednesday.

Firefighters late Thursday afternoon were still battling a huge fire that broke out hours before at a Taiwanese garment factory in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Cần Thơ.

Police from the northern mountainous province of Lạng Sơn on Wednesday said they have arrested a man near Hoàng Đồng Commune for illegally transporting 73 cakes of heroin.

Fire broke out on Thursday in a five-storey building in HCM City’s Kim Biên Street, dangerously close to the chemical market, but was brought under control after two hours.

The health ministry on Wednesday released “The National Guideline on Nutrition for Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers” to improve women’s health and thus the physical stature of Vietnamese people.

Hàn Đức Long, 58, sentenced to death on four occasions, yesterday demanded a public apology from the courts after he was acquitted of charges of child rape and murder.

At least three people were killed at 11pm on Wednesday after a motorbike hit a truck in a head-on collision on Hà Nội’s Vĩnh Tuy Bridge.

The central city’s Oncology Hospital, in co-operation with the British–Swedish biopharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, has launched its first-ever Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation testing programme for non-small cell lung cancer patients in Việt Nam.

Up to four centimetres of land subsidence occurs in the Mekong Delta each year, and exploitation of groundwater is one of several factors causing it.

Quảng Ninh, one of the northern province with high potential in tourism, has gained much high achievement in economic development, but the poor still emerges somewhere.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Wednesday ordered the Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) to revoke the privilege blue plates of 516 cars owned by private businesses.

HCM City People’s Committee has developed a plan to improve the quality of city leaders and officials, adding more youth to the management board between 2016 and 2020.

Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Francis Gurry vowed to keep assisting Việt Nam in the intellectual property field at a meeting with the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyễn Ngọc Thiện in Hà Nội on Wednesday.