Việt Nam News

A public bus plunged into a channel in the central coastal city of Đà Nẵng after being rammed from behind by a truck on Thursday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc hoped that Việt Nam’s trade, investment, and defence-security cooperation with the UK will be growing strongly following the visit by Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox.

A Polish tourist and a Vietnamese tour guide lost their lives while ziplining Hang Cop waterfall in Xuân Thọ Commune, Đà Lạt City in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng.

HCM City plans in June to launch the first river bus transport service connecting Bạch Đằng Wharf in District 1 with Thủ Đức District, and a second route in September from Bạch Đằng Wharf to District 8.

Forty doctors at HCM City Obstetrics Từ Dũ Hospital and Paediatrics Hospital 2 this week implanted a pacemaker in a 36-week-old male infant delivered via a Caesarian section.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has urged the ministries of Transport and Defence to finalise a plan to expand Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City and report to the Government next week.

HCM City on Wenesday installed an automatic public toilet at 116 Nguyễn Du Street in District 1.

More than 600 workers have been trained to serve in the 13-km long Cát Linh – Hà Đông Elevated Railway Project in Hà Nội.

Twenty eight Vietnamese students have received graduation certificates from Russia’s National Research Nuclear University (MePhI) on completion of a six-year course on nuclear technology.

Provinces in the northwestern region of the country are seeing positive results from the second phase of a healthcare service project funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), launched in 2013.

Five years after Đồng Nai Province began implementing a plan to relocate nearly 480 polluting production and other facilities out of urban and residential areas, most of the establishments remain in place.

Three scientists have made Vietnamese science history, having their work published in one the most prestigious journal in the field of physics, Physical Review Letters, on January 9, an event said to be paving way for more pronounced presence of Vietnamese works in the international science community. 

More than 50,000ha of protective and special-use forests in the south-eastern province of Tây Ninh face the risk of fire due to the prolonged hot, dry weather.

A field hospital will be set up at the 175 Military Hospital in HCM City, possibly in July, to provide medical support in case of epidemics or disasters and to UN peacekeeping operations.

Việt Nam’s doctors have for the first time successfully conducted a lung transplant from alive donor.

HCM City has given approval to Australia’s Trisun Green Energy Corporation to build a plasma gasification waste treatment plant, according to People’s Committee chairman Nguyễn Thành Phong.

 Sixteen accused in a cheating case involving a gas station at 436 Trần Khát Chân Street were given various levels of punishments, from administrative fines to prison sentences.

As many as 100 Japanese cherry trees were planted in Nguyễn Văn Cừ Park, Bắc Ninh City of the northern province of Bắc Ninh on Wednesday.