Việt Nam News

Dengue fever remains a matter of concern Hà Nội, but officials have managed to control its spread in 1,468 of the 2,000 affected areas, the Hà Nội People’s Committee said.

Hà Nội’s transport department has proposed to make it compulsory for all taxi transport businesses to use a common taxi operating software from July 1, 2018.

Citizens of Việt Nam and Chile holding regular passports valid for at least six months have been exempted from using visas. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has just approved the budget for grassroots healthcare from 2016-20, a programme that includes funding for constructing health facilities, supporting traditional medicine, and providing healthcare in remote areas.

High interest rates and complicated lending procedures. Degrading port infrastructure. Fishing vessels that were new just a few years ago now broken and unusable. These are just a few of the problems fishermen highlighted yesterday at a conference on Decree 67 in central Đà Nẵng City.

Many young people exchange their health for a desirable body, using rapid muscle growth pills.

Parents of autistic children in HCM City now have another option to save their children from autism: traditional medicine.

Ten people were injured when two buses crashed into each other on the stretch of the Pháp Vân-Cầu Giẽ Highway near the Đỗ Xá flyover in Hà Nội yesterday.

For the last five years, 600 young cadres have been appointed vice chairman of a communal people’s committee at 64 poor districts across the country. They’re sent off to work with a university degree, very little experience, and a good deal of energy and fresh perspective.

Tourism construction on Sơn Trà Peninsula could come to a dramatic halt, after the Đà Nẵng People’s Committee met Monday with the city’s tourism association to discuss the Sơn Trà Tourism Area Development Master Plan.

APEC’s two-day third senior officials meeting (SOM 3) began yesterday with the participation of more than 200 delegates from the 21 APEC economies, the APEC Business Advisory Council, the ASEAN Secretariat and the Pacific Economic Co-operation Council.

HCM City Police have decided to prosecute two people for smuggling electronic devices of different kinds from Japan into Việt Nam.

Minister of Information and Communications Hoàng Vĩnh Bảo on Monday requested the revocation of the journalist card of Nguyễn Thế Thắng.

A collision between a sleeper bus and a 45-seater coach occurred on a highway outside Hà Nội on Tuesday, injuring 10 people and paralysing traffic in the area.

The Ministry of Health has denied granting any favour to pharmaceutical company VN Pharma amid doubts over the ministry’s involvement in the company’s scandalous drug smuggling racket.

As many as nine people were taken to Cần Thơ City General Hospital on Monday after they sustained burn injuries at a wedding party in Trường Long Commune, Phong Điền District.

Camera-equipped drones known as flycams have become increasingly popular, especially among Vietnamese photographers and filmmakers, but few people know they need permission from the Ministry of Defence to fly the devices.

The Hà Nội People’s Court yesterday opened the first instance hearing for ex-banker Hà Văn Thắm and other 50 defendants for serious violations of the State’s monetary policies.