Việt Nam News

Despite improvements to the country’s infrastructure in recent years, especially in terms of transport, better quality planning that matches economic demands is still sorely lacking.

Trần Trung Hiếu, a farmer from An Giang Province’s Châu Thành District, not only cares for his orange garden, but does so using an invention he designed and built on his own.

Drug-trafficking at Việt Nam’s borders continues to be a major issue, causing law enforcement officers to grow increasingly concerned.

Doctors from Xuyên Á Hospital have successfully performed the first kidney transplant done at a private medical facility in HCM City.

The Southern Airport Authority has fined a chief flight attendant of flight VN651 and three ground staff of Việt Nam Airport Ground Service Co Ltd’s Tân Sơn Nhất Branch VNĐ4 million (US$176) each for letting a foreign passenger board the wrong flight.

The HCM City People’s Court yesterday began the trial of 10 senior officials of Nam Việt Bank (Navibank) for “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management causing severe consequences”.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked relevant offices to push for automated toll collection on build-operation-transfer (BOT) highways across the country.

Five categories of automobile registration plates are expected to be auctioned online soon to serve people who desire to have their own unique registration plate as well as enrich the State budget.

Quy Nhơn Maritime Administration in the central province of Bình Định approved a plan on Tuesday to fish out two foreign ships that sank and broke in Quy Nhơn Bay.

The chairman of Hà Nội People’s Committee has asked the municipal Home Affairs Department to abort a plan of recruiting 1,000 public servants.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has urged the health sector to continue striving to care for people’s health as this is always among the top priorities in action programmes of the Party and the Government.

More than 8,000 enterprises nationwide currently owe social insurance premiums totalling some VNĐ2 trillion (US$87 million). These debts are very difficult to retrieve, with some even impossible to get, according to Việt Nam Social Insurance (VSI).

Bars in Hội An ancient city in the central province of Quảng Nam must reduce the volume of music from 10pm and stop serving before midnight every day, Nguyễn Văn Sơn, deputy chairman of the city People’s Committee told tuoitre.vn online newspaper.

The Đồng Tháp Province Department of Agriculture and Rural Development will earmark over 2,000 hectares of land for farming giant river prawns, most of it in Tam Nông, Thanh Bình, and Cao Lãnh districts and Hồng Ngự town.

The Labour Federation of southern Đồng Nai Province said they contacted local enterprises to find new jobs for nearly 2,000 labourers who hadn’t received salaries and year-end bonus as their foreign employers had fled the country.

 A set of criteria to build a “livable city” was in the final stages at a consultation conference hosted by the Đà Nẵng City Commission for Publicity and Education on Tuesday.

HCM City plans to increase the parking fees for automobiles that park on roadsides and sidewalks in District 1, 3, 5, 10 and 11 to VNĐ20,000-40,000 (US$0.9-1.8) per hour.

Red tape has dragged out the issuance of land use certificates in HCM City, causing more than 100,000 cases to remain on the shelves, gathering dust.