Việt Nam News

The Government Inspectorate of Việt Nam (GIV) will begin inspection on the controversial Đa Phước International Urban project, along with all investment and construction projects on the protected Sơn Trà peninsula.

The Hà Nội People’s Court on Wednesday opened proceedings in the case of ex-deputy director of the city’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Phạm Minh Nguyệt and five others accused of violations in economic management.

Việt Nam’s Decent Work Country Programme for the 2017-21 period has been launched in Hà Nội, focusing on employment, social protection and labour market governance.

The central city of Đà Nẵng has fined the Sao Vàng Nha Trang Joint Stock Company, the owner of the Sapphire Hotel project, VNĐ320 million (US$14,000) for not completing an environmental assessment plan before construction.

A group of 52 Chinese were given administrative fines and forced to return to China, the police of Quảng Ninh Province reported.

Experts at a forum held on Tuesday in HCM City urged the adoption of a more effective vocational education model that will deliver advanced job skills and be responsive to the needs of the labour market.

Việt Nam’s national cancer control strategy needed to address the serious problem of infectious agents, blamed for more than 20 per cent of malignancies in the world, Professor Nguyễn Chấn Hùng, chairman of Việt Nam Cancer Society, said this week.

All 17 Việt Nam-Cambodia friendship monuments in Cambodia will see their repairs and upgrades completed by the first quarter of next year, the Cambodian side reported to the Vietnamese military, which is funding the work.

Local authorities have been asked to complete re-inforcing a broken dyke on one river in Bình Định Province and inspect risky points around the clock to prevent further outbursts.

Building smart cities is the main and priority orientation in the development strategy of the Việt Nam Government.

The Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center (MRCC) of Region III rescued two fishermen on a sinking ship offshore Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu Province on December 4.

The Việt Nam Embassy in Russia is appealing for help for Vietnamese victims of the fire that occurred last Saturday at the Mir shopping centre on the Avenue of Victory, Orenburg City, Russia, also known as “the mall of Vietnamese.”

The Vietnam National University - Hồ Chí Minh City will continue to adopt conceiving-designing-implementing-operating (CDIO) as the framework for its member universities’ curriculum planning and outcome-based assessment until 2020.

Police of the northern province of Son La, in collaboration with anti-trafficking customs authorities, have arrested two men suspected of trafficking drugs.

Chairman of Hà Nội People’s Committee, Nguyễn Đức Chung, has tasked the city’s inspectorate with investigating the paving of sidewalks throughout districts in the city and asked for results by the end of this month.

The Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) World Championship 2018 in Việt Nam was launched on Tuesday by the Hồ Chí Minh Central Youth Union and IIG Việt Nam, an organisation for testing and educational quality accreditation.

The Hà Nội’s Department of Transport has banned taxis from operating on 13 streets to reduce traffic jams during rush hours.

Traffic police in the central province of Nghệ An seized a coach transporting nearly 1,300 baby poultry without clear origin on Monday in Diễn Châu District’s Diên Hồng Commune.