Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Defence on Saturday started the construction of infrastructure to address dioxin contamination at Biên Hòa Airport in Biên Hòa City, the southern province of Đồng Nai.

Senior lieutenant-general Tô Lâm, a member of the Poliburo and Minister of Public Security, yesterday sent a letter praising various police offices for capturing two death-row prisoners who escaped a prison in Hà Nội last Sunday.

A fire occurred at the Thành Đô Supermarket on Giải Phóng Street, Phương Liệt Ward in Hà Nội’s Thanh Xuân District at about 1am on Saturday.

Unlike many medical students of the same age who want to work in big cities like Hà Nội after graduation, Nguyễn Chiến Quyết, from the northern province of Hưng Yên, chose to work in the northern mountainous areas with the hope of helping people there.

Trần Thị Chang, president of the Vietnamese women’s club in Malaysia, was worried. More and more Vietnamese children were growing up in the country, but there was no Vietnamese class for them to learn their mother tongue.

PM Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Saturday visited the central provinces hardest hit by Typhoon Doksuri to inspect recovery efforts. 

Everyday, millions of containers make their way to and from the ports of HCM City. They may hold food, electronics, clothing, toys, cars, lumber: virtually every item imaginable.

Doksuri, the 10th storm arising in the East Sea so far this year, caused five deaths and dozens of injuries in six hours in Việt Nam yesterday.

Three important documents were adopted at the 24^th APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Ministerial Meeting that wrapped up yesterday in HCM City.

Dương Thị Lan, 53, a farmer in Tân Lập Commune in the northern mountainous Yên Bái Province, has built a veritable agricultural empire, with business activities ranging from animal breeding, forest planting to offering agricultural products. Earning over VNĐ800million (US$34,800) a year, she was honored by the Việt Nam Farmers’ Association as one of the most outstanding Vietnamese farmers.  

The Red Cross yesterday (September 15) launched a commission to support its humanitarian movements and charity activities.

Only five of 35 planned mineral resources maps have been completed, making it challenging for the government to reach its 2020 deadline for completing the map projects, officials said yesterday.

After putting in 28 years on his job, railway worker Phạm Hồng Sơn based in Hải Dương Province, 57km to the east of the capital city, decided to quit his job last July at the age of 48.

Economic growth can only be sustained if the status of women is improved, Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh said at a Việt Nam-Laos-Cambodia women’s forum held yesterday in HCM City.

Police in this central province have arrested a man for operating a ring that smuggled some 50kg of explosive material to process bombs in Tam Kỳ District.

Doksuri, considered the most powerful tropical typhoon to hit Việt Nam in a decade, is expected to make landfall in the central provinces later today afternoon.

The number of new dengue cases has declined nearly 24 per cent nationwide over the past four weeks, the health ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department director Trần Đắc Phu said on Thursday.