Việt Nam News

The annual KOVA Prize 2017 honoured contributions of two groups, eight outstanding individuals and seven students for their outstanding contributions to the fields of applied science and technology, and social welfare, at a ceremony on Saturday.

Thousands of youth on Sunday morning joined an event called “Zumba Festival: Love’s steps” at Thống Nhất Park in Hà Nội to encourage women, girls and community members to speak out against violence against women and girls.

Despite recent devastating floods, the number of flood-resistant houses designed and built for families in the central and Mekong Delta provinces remains modest, according to Nguyễn Thu Phong, chairman of the Việt Nam Young Architects Club.

Illegal coaches and bus services can be seen cruising the streets and flouting all rules as the demand for commuting options increases in the run-up to New Year and Tết (Lunar New Year).

Poor waterway infrastructure and lack of wharves as well as stopover stations are major obstacles preventing the full development of waterway tourism in HCM City, according to river transport and tourism companies.

Cai Lậy Build-Operation-Transfer (BOT) toll station has been forced to open its gates from Thursday night as drivers used small currency notes to buy tickets, protesting against the high fees.

The HCM City Department of Transport’s public transport operation and management centre has launched 100 new buses on three routes with a focus on comprehensively improving their service standards.

As the HIV response is being integrated into the general healthcare system, improving awareness of healthcare workers is important in addressing discrimination and stigma.

Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc underlined the importance of building a resolution on key socio-economic tasks and solutions in 2018 at a cabinet meeting in Hà Nội yesterday.He said there is only a month left in 2017 and the workload is still very heavy.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân met leaders from Western Australia to seek co-operation opportunities in various fields of mutual interest, such as mining, renewable energy, liquefied petroleum gas, education-training, tourism, seaports and agriculture.

Tạ Đình Huy, 35, of Thượng Vực Commune, Hà Nội’s Chương Mỹ District, one of 86 outstanding young people given 2107 Lương Định Của Award, for making agricultural machines to reduce burdens for farmers in farming activities and offered jobs for 50 local youngsters.

Eight Vietnamese grassroots projects in the fields of education, health and infrastructure development received about US$642,000 in grants from the Japanese government yesterday.

A series of new government policies on land use right certificates, proving financial capacity to play at casinos, and for the horse racing and international football betting business, come into effect this month.

Prime Minister (PM), Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, on Thursday, directed the relevant ministries to handle the seafood products inventories in four provinces affected by the 2016 Formosa toxic spill.

Police in southern Kiên Giang Province’s Châu Thành District are investigating alleged physical abuse of a seven-year-old girl by her father and stepmother, Colonel Phạm Trung Thành of the Province’s Police Department said.

The construction of many hydropower dams along the Mekong River to mitigate an ongoing energy shortage threatens the future of the river’s delta in Việt Nam, a workshop heard in HCM City on November 30.

The Đà Nẵng-based Council of Judges of the Việt Nam Supreme People’s Court on Thursday upheld a 10-year prison sentence for Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, known by her blogging and Facebook name “Mẹ Nấm” (“Mother Mushroom”), who was convicted of propagandising against the State of the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam under Article 88 of the Penal Code.

Việt Nam has been one of the most dynamic and active members of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), hosting as many as 50 of its events since its establishment 20 years ago, an official said on Thursday.