Việt Nam News

Two top officials of the people’s committees of Lào Cai city and province will attend court on Tuesday as defendants of a land eviction lawsuit filed by a resident.

Tropical Storm Sonca, the fourth to hit Việt Nam this year, is forecast to make landfall in central and northcentral Việt Nam on Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, according to the National Hydro-meteorological Forecast Centre.

Professor Gerard’t Hooft, Dutch Nobel Laureate in Physics and his wife arrived in Bình Định on Sunday afternoon.

Hundreds of tonnes of fish being bred in the rivers of Phú Thọ, Phú Yên and Bình Thuận provinces died recently because of floodwater discharge and changes in water quality.

A Vietnamese rescue ship on Sunday brought in the body of a Greek crewman and handed it over to relevant authorities on the mainland, online newspaper vov.vn reported.

Hoàng Thị Hiền, owner of a private health clinic in Hưng Yên Province, has been suspended from work for 15 days while investigation into her illegal treatment of phimosis in boys is underway.

High schools students in Hà Nội collected more than 6.5 tonnes of waste paper and old books in five days during an event named “Lượm Đây” ( Collecting Day).

Public schools in HCM City need to hire nearly 3,000 teachers for the upcoming academic year starting next month since the number of students and classrooms are set to increase, Sài Gòn Giải Phóng (Liberated Sài Gòn) newspaper reported quoting figures from district education divisions.

In a house sandwiched at a small stone-paved alley of southern Đồng Nai Province, a three-year-old baby girl nicknamed Nhân Thiên (Human Heaven) sat next to a slim Buddhist nun, selecting seeds to grow vegetables.

New medical graduates could be required to work for three to five years at healthcare centres in outlying regions to meet a critical lack of doctors and help improve healthcare services there.

 Parents scurrying to send their children to the many life skills classes blooming in the big cities has been a trend that has been picking up lately. These classes, organised during the three-month summer vacation in Việt Nam, claim to train children on important communication and survival skills that can then be applied to real-life situations.

The Việt Nam Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre Region 3 in Vũng Tàu City successfully saved a Chinese seaman who had suffered a stroke at sea yesterday.

The Sơn La Police arrested Mùa A Hử, 55, from Laos’ Huaphanh Province on Saturday while he was in the act of transporting heroin from Laos to Việt Nam. They confiscated 9.8kg of heroin, a gun and 13 bullets. 

One person died and at least 10 others were injured in a traffic accident on Saturday night in Thạnh Lộc Commune, District 12 in HCM City.

Vietnamese students bagged four gold, one silver and one bronze at the 58th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) held in Brazil.

In the first six months of 2017, authorities uncovered 88,560 cases of smuggling, prosecuting 1,100 cases involving 1,372 people.

Supercomputers will be deployed to unify databases of different agencies managing information on war invalids and martyrs, significantly reducing time taken to locate documents or determine the identity of remains.

More than 23,000 units of blood were collected during a 20-day Red Journey blood donation campaign in 20 provinces and cities.