The Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information has decided to fine three online newspapers for publishing improper and propaganda information related to a scandal involving Hồng Quang Minh or Minh Béo, a comedian.
The Hà Nội Traffic Police have yet to impose any fine although many road users driving in the lane of bus rapid transit (BRT) have been recorded over the first days running the buses.
Phạm Thị Lâm, a resident of An Xuyên 3 hamlet, Mỹ Chánh commune of Phú Mỹ district in central Bình Định Province silently dug up pieces of her children’s torn notebooks from layers of wet sand in front of her house. Her husband, Phan Văn Long, was busy with removing piles of concretes, rocks and sands out of his house.
Lâm and Long, among other locals of the flood-hit province, are rushing to clean up their collapsed houses after continuous severe floods by the end of 2016.
HCM City aims to move all poor and near-poor households, which represent 5.77 per cent of all households, out of poverty by 2020.
It is accepted by everyone that children need plenty of regular physical exercise, but parents in major cities are not doing enough to ensure this, experts say.
Applying advanced technologies would be a breakthrough-solution for successful restructuring of agricultural production, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Nguyễn Xuân Cường said this week.
Sticking a ‘safe’ logo onto food products is one of the capital city’s recent efforts to fight off unsafe food, but the public is questioning its effectiveness.
Two workers were killed and two others wounded as a wall collapsed on a team of workers when they were demolishing an old building around 1.30pm in Trần Phú street on Wednesday.
The Tourism Department in central Đà Nẵng City yesterday announced the launch of two hotlines to receive timely feedback and quickly respond to reports related to tourist activities.
A 35 year-old woman in HCM City died of dengue fever on Tuesday (Jan 3), taking to six the total number of fatalities due to the disease since last year, according to the Preventive Medicine Centre.
Two secondary school students drowned while playing in an water canal near a construction site in the southern An Giang Province’s Chợ Mới District.
Road accidents and traffic gridlocks are on the rise on National Highway 5, which links Hà Nội and Hải Phòng City, despite there being an alternative faster, smoother expressway.
A seal that often played with locals in the central province of Bình Thuận is believed to have been cruelly killed by humans.
Local farmers have blamed wastewater discharged into the sea by a couple recently, for the mass clam deaths in central Thanh Hóa Province’s Hải Lộc Commune.
Việt Nam is expected to produce six-in-one vaccines in 2017 or 2018 and by 2020 these will be used widely in the country, according to the health ministry.
The HCM City People’s Committee has approved 115 projects that will cost VNĐ4.2 trillion (US$193.5 million).
A network of thousands of outstanding Vietnamese individuals living in foreign countries world-wide, is expected to be set up following a project newly kicked off by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
The Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union yesterday held a ceremony to honour 10 outstanding young citizens of 2016, chosen from 126 nominations, double the number of nominees last year. Eligible youth are 30 years old and under.
Several contentious issues are dogging implementation of key power projects managed by the Southern Power Management Board (SPBM), contradictory regulations and land evaluation and compensation rules that residents are not ready to accept.
To help patients have stem cell transplants without having to take an expensive trip, the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, in collaboration with the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, have been collecting umbilical cord blood samples from pregnant women since May 2014.
