Việt Nam News

Five former officials of Đại Tín Bank (Trust Bank) who were charged with “violating regulations on lending activities of credit institutes” were sentenced to three to seven years in jail by the HCM City People’s Court yesterday.

The rainy season in the southern region this year is expected to have temperatures 0.4 to 0.8 degrees Celsius above average, according to the Southern Hydro-Meteorological Station.

Tourists from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy will continue to be exempted from visa until June 2021, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said on Thursday.

An airline passenger was fined for issuing a bomb threat at Cát Bi International Airport in the northern city of Hải Phòng.

The number of in-patients with public medical insurance has unusually increased in the first four months, according to a latest report by the Việt Nam Social Insurance (VSI).

President of the Việt Nam Medical Association (VMA) Nguyễn Thị Xuyên has received the rotational chairmanship of the Medical Association of Southeast Asian Nations (MASEAN) for the 2018-2020 tenure.

The customs office at Saigon Port under the Ho Chi Minh City Customs Department yesterday seized an additional 3.3 tonnes of pangolin scales illegally imported from Africa. 

Approved projects using foreign capital in the period of 2017-18 must be reviewed after the signing of credit agreements to optimise the effectiveness of foreign loans.

Việt Đức Hospital’s Department of Plastic Surgery conducted successfully a surgery to remove part of a 45-kg tumour from a 34-year-old patient.

Nearly 74 per cent of the 925,961 candidates taking the upcoming national high school graduation examinations have applied to universities, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the Ministry of Transport to assess costs and capital sources for two metro lines in HCM City and to submit the report to the city government.

 The heavily polluted Đông Thạnh rubbish dump in HCM City has been converted into an orchard, drastically improving the environment in the surrounding neighbourhood.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc highlighted a number of issues that are slowing down the country’s efforts to improve its investment environment during a monthly Government meeting in Hà Nội yesterday.

Four border officials in Đắk Lắk Province have been suspended pending investigation after the police discovered a large pile of illegal timber being transported to the province’s border area.

The HCM City Public Transport Management Centre has launched a pilot programme to use fingerprint scans on school buses to enable schools to better manage school ridership.

The illegal construction on Cái Hạ Mountain inside Tràng An Heritage Site in northern Ninh Bình province has not been dismantled completely.

In U Minh District in the southernmost province of Cà Mau, there is a popular job called “gác kèo ong” which literally means 'the guard of honey bees hives'.

Nguyễn Danh Huy, general director of the transport ministry’s Public-Private Partnership Investment Project Management Department, speaks to Tuổi trẻ (Youth) newspaper about measures to attract investors to participate in BOT projects.