Việt Nam News

So far, nine provinces have received rice aid under a government programme to give nearly 5,200 tonnes of free rice to needy households as the Lunar New Year (Tết) draws near, said officials at the General Department of State Reserves.

HCM City householders are always in need of house cleaning and housekeeping services as Tết (Lunar New Year) draws near.

More than three thousand attempted smugglings worth millions of dollars in goods and counterfeit items were stopped by anti-smuggling forces in Quảng Trị Province in 2017, one of the central region’s hotspots for smuggling along the border with Laos.

Hanoians have suffered severe traffic jams over the last week and the situation is predicted to worsen in the days near Tết (Lunar New Year).

Managers of the Tân Thanh Border Guards have worked to resolve seasonal traffic jams at the border gate over the past four days, according to Đoàn Tuấn Anh, deputy director of the Tân Thanh Customs Department.

Four people drowned on Sunday while picking apples near a pond in a garden in Băc Giang Provice’s Hiệp Hòa District.

Various programmes to support workers were held in southern provinces, including Đồng Nai and Long An,on the occasion of Tết (Lunar New Year) Festival.

The Ministry of Public Security has sent a dispatch to heads of provincial and municipal police, requesting them to focus on enhancing traffic order and safety for Tết (Lunar New Year) Festival to control traffic jams and accidents.

Police in the northern province of Quảng Ninh, in coordination with the Ministry of Public Security, have arrested two persons of Chinese nationality who are wanted by police in China.

Chairwoman of Việt Nam’s National Assembly, Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân, presented 100 gifts to families of social welfare policies, poor households and victims of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin in the Mekong Delta province of Tiền Giang during her pre-Tết visit to the locality yesterday.

HCM City plans to have all students learn English since the first grade starting in the 2018-2019 academic year, according to Nguyễn Quang Vinh, head of the primary education division at the city’s Department of Education and Training.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has instructed the Ministry of Finance to allocate rice from national reserves to support people in the central province of Nghệ An, who have suffered from a poor crop.

Petrol smuggling and trade fraud continues to be a big problem in Viet Nam, with several cases of fake and poor quality gasoline discovered by Government agencies.

The network of deep, tiny alleys running side by side are part of the mysterious beauty of old Hà Nội, but they also pose a death trap for those in flats and houses along them when fire breaks out.

The Đà Nẵng-based Vietnamese-Australian Vocational College, in co-operation with Ariyana beach resort, have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on human resource training in tourism for 2018-20.

Thanh Hóa Province and Shizuoka Prefecture have one thing in common: they are both near the sea. This is the reason Iizuka Kazuhiro, a occupational therapist born and raised in the southern Japanese coastal province, chose to move to the central province in Việt Nam as a volunteer.

The world’s longest sea cable car route connecting An Thới Town and Hòn Thơm Island in the southern province of Kiên Giang’s Phú Quốc Island District was inaugurated yesterday, reducing travel time by half compared to speed boats.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Nguyễn Quốc Cường has urged Japan’s law enforcement agencies to soon conclude investigations into the death of ten-year-old Vietnamese girl Lê Thị Nhật Linh, and bring the suspect to trial.