Việt Nam News

Four people were injured in a major collision on HCM City – Long Thành – Dầu Giây Highway yesterday afternoon.

There will be two direct flights weekly from Switzerland to Việt Nam starting November, Federal Councilor of Switzerland Doris Leuthard said on Tuesday when she met Transport Minister Nguyễn Văn Thể.

Forty-one people have been removed from the list of newly-appointed professors and associate professors that was announced in early February.

An Giang Province aims to have at least 90 per cent of the population covered by health insurance by 2020, as per the Government’s goal.

Property developer Vingroup today signed a strategic cooperation agreement with two of the top 20 leading universities in the world, US-based Cornell and Pennsylvania (Penn).

The deputy transport minister on Monday denied rumours that Hà Nội’s prolonged Cát Linh-Hà Đông urban railway project would be delayed for the fifth time till 2021.

Pressure from local media and public has prompted an investigation by ranger authorities into the origin of three large perennial trees found at a plot in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province.

The Department of Health in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ this year plans to expand a model of family medical practice clinics to 27 more communes and wards.

Slow compensation to clear existing residents has delayed construction on a new facility for HCM City Hospital for Traumatology and Orthopaedics for six years.

HCM City in recent years has built a number of multi-million dollar roads, including the Hà Nội, Nguyễn Văn Linh and Phạm Văn Đồng highways, but footbridges.and public restroom facilities were not included as part of the projects.  

HCM City authorities are set to step up oversight of inland waterway transport to ensure safety and smoother movement of goods and passengers.

Twenty years have passed since the young doctor, Trịnh Đức Thiện, left Huế City for the remote and mountainous A Vao Commune in central Quảng Trị Province’s Đăk Rông District to work after graduating from medical college.

Artichokes produced in Lào Cai Province contain a high concentration of cynarin, which can assist in lowering cholesterol and breaking down unwanted fat. Farmers in the region are cashing in on increased demand. 

Almost 90 per cent of local markets in Hà Nội don’t meet fire safety standards.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Cần Thơ plans to develop a 700ha specialised fruit growing area for export in Phong Điền District.

The Việt Nam-Sustainable Agriculture Transformation Project (VnSAT) in the Mekong Delta has helped raise farm profits by 14 per cent after two years of implementation, according to Đặng Minh Cường, the project’s deputy head.

While the number of traffic accidents on Vietnamese roads decreased in the first quarter of this year, fatalities rose.