Việt Nam News

Massive waves have washed away two brothers in the central province of Quảng Ngãi. The body of one boy remains missing.

The Philippines army has transferred three sailors kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants to the Vietnamese Embassy in the country.

After her first child died when she was just five months old, Nguyễn Thị Th., a nurse from northern Thanh Hóa Province’s Quảng Xương District, gave birth to a healthy baby girl.

Shortage of funds and human resources are being blamed for the loose management of several plant protection products and in the south.

In Việt Nam, getting into a university can be considered a national obsession. However, after each cut-throat university entrance competition, the number of students remaining until graduation steadily declining over the years have become a concern for educators.

The Ministry of Public Security is setting up a national data system about population to manage and supply basic information about residents exactly and consistently via their personal numbers.

Taxation and customs general departments must simplify their administrative procedures and eliminate unnecessary licences to attract more overseas Vietnamese investors, experts said.

The centralised bidding process to procure medical equipment and other supplies for public hospitals in the capital city is floundering on disagreements over quality and pricing, local reports say.

Commuters in central QuảngTrị Province are risking their lives commuting on old, unsafe bridges, which have been weakened by recent floods in the locality.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President Xi Jinping and Chairwoman of the Việt Nam National Assembly Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân attended an inaugural ceremony for the Việt Nam – China Friendship Palace in Hà Nội on November 12.

More than 190 households from the Mông ethnic group in Ea Rớt village, in the Krông Bông District of Central Highlands Province of Đắk Lắk have gained access to electricity and clean water thanks to a solar energy system supported by the Green Innovation and Development Centre (Green ID).

Minister of Transport Nguyễn Văn Thể urged related authorities to immediately implement all necessary solutionsto increase capacity and cope with serious traffic congestion at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport.

Lottery ticket vendor with a disability repairs roads of his own volition.

He repaired bicycles, bought vegetables at the wholesale market and sold them in smaller markets, and did all kinds of jobs to make ends meet.

A total of  89 people were killed, 1,140 fishing vessels either sunk or damaged and 24,000 aquaculture cages for lobsters, groupers and cobia were lost during Typhoon Damrey.

Although Typhoon Damrey has been calm for a week, ten shipwrecks remain under the Quy Nhơn sea as ship owners struggle to rescue them.

The youth representatives of 17 out of 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies adopted a declaration for youth at the closing ceremony of APEC Voices of the Future 2017 in the central province of Quảng Nam on Friday.

Leaders of APEC and ASEAN economies agreed yesterday that fresh impetus was needed for co-operation and integration between the two blocs.