Việt Nam News

A serious landslide was reported on Thursday on a section of Thái Nguyên-Chợ Mới Highway, crossing Yên Đĩnh Commune of Bắc Kạn Province’s Chợ Mới District.

By 2020, all telecommunication cables in inner-city districts of Hà Nội will be underground, the city’s Information and Communication Department announced yesterday.

Tam Kỳ City People’s Court on Wednesday ordered a shipbuilding company to compensate a seaman after it willingly conducted a ship's trial, following which the ship’s main machine stopped working.

Phi Anh Đệ, 40, a mechanics of Mekong Delta Phú Yên Province’s Sơn Nguyên Commune, who just graduated from primary school but created several low-cost-but-effective tools for agricultural production in his hometown – an area specialised in growing sugarcane.

With the hope of narrowing the gap between the elderly and the young, high school student Lê Mạnh Linh and his friends have found a new, profound way of connecting older people.

The branch bridge N2 connecting Nguyễn Tri Phương Bridge and Võ Văn Kiệt Street in District 5, which leads to District 1, in HCM City opened for traffic on Wednesday (August 30).

Migrant workers pray for more schools near Industrial Zones so that they do not have to send their children back to their home villages to study.

HCM City has taken great efforts to mobilise capital from the private sector as the City’s State budgets can meet only 20 per cent of the capital required for the city’s development of VNĐ1,800 trillion (over US$80 billion) in the period 2016 – 2020.

Scientists have created a map that warns against land degradation risks in northern mountainous provinces of Điện Biên and Lai Châu.

Thanks to a new solar power system, residents of a small island community will have clean energy on-demand—a stark change from the prior status quo of accessing power just six hours a day.

Việt Nam’s health insurance fund is forecasted to struggle with an enormous deficit of more than VNĐ10 trillion (US$434.8 million) this year, according to a newly released information from Việt Nam Social Insurance (VSI).

The degradation of Thảo Long Dyke in central Thừa Thiên- Huế Province has worried locals of salty intrusion, which affects their daily water source and agricultural cultivation.

A regulation recently issued by the Hà Nội People’s Committee requires basements to be a compulsory part of new constructions in the inner areas of the city.

“After seven years of development, I can proudly state that Thai farmers now cannot compete with limes from the Chanh Việt Company,” said Nguyễn Văn Hiển. Hiển is the owner of the largest lime plantation in the Mekong Delta which creates a significant value chain for the Vietnamese agriculture sector.

Some modern slaughterhouse projects have to be postponed because of the new circular issued by Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The shift also delays the plan of closing old slaughter facilities. 

Centre of Hands-on Actions and Networking for Growth and Environment (CHANGE) and WildAid have launched the Ivory Free Vietnam Campaign to stop the illegal trade in ivory and contribute to the global efforts to save elephants from extinction, has been launched in HCM City.

APEC-member economies agreed to continue enhancing regional cooperation to achieve the Bogor Goals of freer and open trade by 2020 in the Asia-Pacific region, an official said at a press conference held on Wednesday in HCM City.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the Ministry of Finance to verify press reports on the customs department receiving unofficial fees without invoices, the Government Office said.