Việt Nam News

The first-instance trial for the accident at Hòa Bình General Hospital that killed nine people in May last year ended its sixth day on May 22 with a question and answer series among defendants and the board of judges. 

Vũ Tiến Lộc, chairman of the Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry tells the Công Thương (Trade and Commerce) newspaper that the target of having 1 million successful enterprises by 2020 is feasible

More than VNĐ116 trillion (US$5.04 billion) is needed to upgrade Long Thành, Nội Bài and Tân Sơn Nhất airports for the 2018-21 period, with a vision to 2025, according to the State-owned Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) investment plan.

Children and pregnant women lack access to health services in remote, border and island areas, creating a major challenge for the national programme to eliminate the transmission of HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis from mothers to children, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Viết Tiến said in Hà Nội on May 22.

Protecting the environment is now becoming a common motivation of enterprises’s long term strategy, Nguyễn Thế Chinh, head of the Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment said at an event on May 22.

The central city’s people’s committee has closed a private kindergarten in Thanh Khê district for further investigation on violations after a video clip was posted on social network on May 21.

Three hospital staff members in the southern province of Đồng Nai were suspended from work on Monday after selling expired medicines to a patient last week.

Landslides on Monday occurred along the Ô Môn River in Cần Thơ City’s Ô Môn District, causing five houses to fall in the river.

Over 1,500 tonnes of fish have been found dead in the southern Đồng Nai Province, causing estimated damage of billions of dong, according to competent authorities.

Phạm Thanh Hải, 52, former director of the International Trading, Investment and Technology Development (IDT) joint stock company, received a life sentence Monday afternoon for defrauding hundreds of investors.

Việt Nam is among the countries in the Asia-Pacific with an alarming incidence of gestational diabetes, Dr Lê Quang Thanh, head of Từ Dũ Hospital in HCM City, has said.

The relatives of nine victims who died due to contaminated dialysis machines asked a court on Monday to acquit one of the defendants in the case.

Four members of a family, including an 18-month-old baby, were struck by lightning on Monday afternoon inside their house in central Nghệ An province’s Quỳ Hợp commune.

Population and 50 per cent of farming area in the Island of Lý Sơn District, 30km off the coast of Quảng Ngãi Province have been salinised in early dry season this year, reducing area of purple onion – a major crop – in the island from 170ha to 50ha.

Nearly 28,000 high school teachers around the country are set to benefit from a programme meant for continuous professional development of teachers and principals to improve their capacity to teach the new curriculum.

Farmers in Trà Vinh Province are lending their land for free to poor farmers as a way of helping families escape poverty.

The 12th National Press Awards 2017 were held in Hà Nội on June 21 on the occasion of Việt Nam's Revolutionary Journalism Day, with 105 stories being credited.

As the Northern and Central regions have been sweltered for weeks, hospitals have received huge influxes of patients who suffered from heat-related illnesses.