Việt Nam News

The northern region is likely to get rainfall on Tuesday afternoon, cooling some areas that have been suffering from a harsh early summer since the past week.

Maternal mortality rate in the country fell from 233 per 100,000 live births in the 1990s to 58.3 per 100,000 live births in 2016.

Police on Monday took into custody a man accused of killing four people, including two young children, in a knife attack in the northern province of Cao Bằng.

Việt Nam appreciated Sweden’ s sharing on experiences, good practices and technologies to support the development of public transport sector, Deputy Transport Minister Lê Đình Thọ said on Monday.

The People’s Court of Hòa Bình City in the northern province of Hòa Bình yesterday delayed the first-instance trial on a medical incident causing eight deaths at the kidney dialysis division of the Hòa Bình General Hospital in May last year.

Fishermen around the country caught 1.08 million tonnes of fish and other aquatic species in the first four months of the year, 2.7 per cent up year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

About 12-14 storms and low tropical pressures systems are likely to appear in the East Sea this year, and 4-6 storms will hit Việt Nam, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

A new proposal for the reduction of toll fees, as well as the exemption of tolls for cars of 17 communes and wards located in a 10km radius of Ninh Lộc Toll Station in Khánh Hoa Province, has been submitted to the Ministry of Transport.

“When will we be able to return to our apartment?”  That’s the question many of the residents of Carina Plaza apartment complex in HCM City’s District 8 are asking again and again, following the devastating fire on March 23 that killed 13 people and injured 47.

Saigon Petro Co., Ltd has proposed halting the sale of popular 95-octane gasoline A95 and replacing it with E5 bio fuel, facing opposition from experts and customers.

Tiền Giang Province, the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta’s largest fruit producer, has increased its fruit cultivation area to nearly 75,000ha this year, up 3 per cent against the same period last year.

At least 18 people died of rabies in the last four months, mostly because of ignorance about rabies control and prevention, reported the Preventive Medicines Department under the health ministry.

An inspection team of officials from the construction and public security ministries and HCM City’s People’s Committee on May 7 examined fire safety measures in apartment buildings and high-rise buildings in the city.

Two died and 14 others were injured when a sleeper bus slammed into a lorry in the central province of Hà Tĩnh late Sunday evening.

Việt Nam Red Cross (VNRC) Society has preserved VNĐ102 billion (US$4.53 million), including money and goods, to prepare for the 2018 natural disaster prevention season.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in co-operation with the central Quảng Ngãi Province, has handed over 40 ‘safe’ houses to poor people living in flood and storm vulnerable communes in the province.

The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecast reported rainfall of 30-50mm in the northern mountainous provinces of Lào Cai, Yên Bái and Hòa Bình on Monday morning.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has urged HCM City to boost the application of high technology in tracing the origins of food products as a way to gradually change the habits of production and consumption to improve awareness of food safety.