Having no tears to cry, Lò Thị Xăm’s only hope is that her two sons can “love their mother more”. This Thai ethnic lady living in Phát Village, Lóng Sập Ward has her husband dying of drug overdose nearly ten years ago. Unfortunately, her sons gradually follow suit their dad.
Bùi Thanh Sơn, deputy minister of Việt Nam’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, and chair of the APEC Senior Officials Meeting (SOM-3), spoke with Việt Nam News about the Dialogue on Regional Trade Agreement (RTAs) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).
Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has assigned the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) to work with other ministries and localities concerned to build a master plan on prevention and control of natural disasters for mountainous areas.
A group of university students from the southern province of Đồnng Nai on Sunday won the Asia-Pacific robot contest, known as Robocon, held in Tokyo, Japan.
Officials from the 21 APEC member economies discussed ways to avoid duplication and overlap of APEC-funded projects at a meeting on Saturday in HCM City.
Globalisation and technological changes have contributed to unprecedented economic growth, improvement in living standards, and poverty reduction in the past two centuries, but these can also bring about structural unemployment in the short to medium terms, delegates heard on the second day of the APEC Economic Committee meeting in HCM City on Saturday.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong received Chairman of Myanmar’s Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) Than Htay in Naypyidaw on August 25, as part of his State visit to the country.
In traditional markets in Nam Trà My district, prized and valuable Ngoc Linh ginseng abounds. What eager customers don't know is that the herb they buy might not be the real thing.
Three important documents were adopted as the week-long (August 18-25) APEC Food Security Week and High-level Policy Dialogue on Enhancing Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Response to Climate Change wrapped up yesterday.
Vaccine coverage against the human papilloma virus (HPV) should be expanded to help reduce new incidences of cervical cancer, experts said at an APEC meeting.
A secondary school student, Võ Hoàng Khanh, from Thừa Thiên-Huế Province has designed an agricultural tool that allows farmers to easily uproot the cassava plant during harvest.
Near-shore fishery resources are declining and in danger of being depleted, so fishermen in Vĩnh Trường Commune, Nha Trang City where 70 per cent of population lived by seagoing, must quit fishing even that go away from home to seek job.
Lương Văn Can Street in Hoàn Kiếm District is long considered as the paradise of toys. However, recently, made-in-China bows, plastic bullet guns or plastic swords are detected to be publicly sold as children’s toys here. In reality, these are all weapons used in committing crimes.
The Ministry of Education and Training and Dutch-owned dairy company FrieslandCampina have donated 30 tonnes of milk to schools in northern provinces, which were badly affected by floods that began at the end of last month.
Construction of a bridge to Kim Cương (Diamond) Island in HCM City’s District 2 is slated to begin in early September.
Illegal gasoline trade is happening frequently between truck drivers and transport enterprise owners on the stretch of National Route 5 passing through the port city of Hải Phòng.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has asked the Việt Nam’s Environment Agency (VEA) to cooperate with Khánh Hòa Province's Department of Natural Resources and Environment to clarify the case of 10 nix waste tankers’ disappearance.
Việt Nam has over 15,000 scientific journals published internationally in the last five years, marking an average yearly increase of 17 per cent, according to Web of Science.
In recognition of the importance of agriculture to the Australia-Việt Nam bilateral relationship, Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Senator the Hon. Anne Ruston launched the "Australia in Vietnam Agriculture Strategy" in Cần Thơ on Thursday.
The HCM City’s People’s Court on Friday sentenced Việt Nam Pharma company’s former top executive Nguyễn Minh Hùng and an associate to 12 years’ imprisonment for smuggling and counterfeiting seals and materials of agencies and organisations.
