Việt Nam News

President Trần Đại Quang yesterday urged the Hà Nội Medical University to continuously strive to become a leading medical training and research centre in Việt Nam.

A medical specialist training programme was launched in Hải Phòng City on Monday for 19 medical graduates who volunteer to go work in remote localities of the country. 

A workshop was held in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế on Monday to look into the outcomes of the trial remediation of dioxin using microbial technology at A Sho airfield in A Lưới District.

Around VNĐ4 billion (US$178,000) was raised for heart surgeries for poor children at the “Run for heart 2017” event in HCM City on Sunday.

The police in the central province of Khánh Hòa’s Ninh Hòa Town identified the person who posted a fake story about Đá Bàn dam being broken on Facebook.

HCM City’s Department of Transport has proposed to the city’s authority to begin the operation of electric buses to transport tourists from wharfs to hotels or tourism sites.

Construction of a section of National Highway 10 across Quang Trung Commune in Hải Phòng City’s An Lão District has been suspended for two days due to protests by locals.

The North-South train service through Cả Pass has resumed operation after ten days of interruption in the aftermath of typhoon Damrey, Vietnam Railways has announced.

Two schoolboys drowned while swimming in the sea in central Hà Tĩnh Province on Monday afternoon.

Temperatures in Hà Nội will drop this weekend due to a new strong cold air pressure coming from the north.

Only two years after an irrigation system worth VNĐ150 billion (US$6.6 million) was built in southern Bến Tre Province’s Hưng Lễ Commune, it is showing signs of degradation.

HCM City leaders have called on the city Youth Union to provide greater support to young people starting up businesses, with a focus on innovation and technology.

Thousands of reservoirs across the country are facing threat of breaking as they are in full capacity due to heavy rainfalls in recent weeks.

Since 2012, over 12,000 households in the northern mountain province of Sơn La have been plagued by water pollution.

Việt Nam’s national energy development plan does not include geothermal sources, but a senior official said yesterday that it was time to study their potential in the country.

The number of Vietnamese women and girls in STEM (sciences, technology, engineering, and math) fields remains low, mostly due to social and environmental factors, Dr Lê Thị Kim Phụng, deputy head of HCM City University of Technology’s chemical engineering faculty, said yesterday at a conference held in the city.

The HCM City Department of Transport has proposed offering several electric bus routes to pick up and drop off passengers using the city’s water-bus service, which is slated to start at the end of November.

The New Port-Sóng Thần Inland Clearance Deport (ICD) company has launched the first rooftop solar-power logistics system in binh Duong Province in Viet Nam.