Việt Nam News

A tour boat sank in Hạ Long Bay on Sunday. Fortunately, no casualties were reported.

On the morning of December 25, a total of 1,168,137 people in 15 provinces and cities in the south were relocated to safe places before storm Tembin makes land fall.

The Điện Biên Police, in co-ordination with the Ministry of Public Security, on Saturday caught three heroin traffickers and made the province’s largest-ever heroin seizure.

A fire that raged yesterday at Tràng An Việt Nam Confectionery Joint-stock Company in Bắc Sơn Industrial Zone, Thanh Hóa Province, left at least one person dead.

The Việt Nam Register (VR) will stop granting safety certificates to diesel cars that fail to meet European emission standard 4 or higher beginning on January 1, the department announced.

Camera traps in Vũ Quang National Park in central Hà Tĩnh Province recently captured pictures of elephants, affirming the existence of the giant mammal.

Representatives yesterday started construction work on the Trúc Lâm Sóc Trăng Temple in Sóc Trăng City in the southern province of Sóc Trăng.

A number of schools in HCM City which were named national-standard schools—an honor given to schools that meet criteria ranging from student performance to infrastructure—no longer meet that criteria because their classrooms are too crowded.

Electronic disease surveillance system inefficient due to poor reporting

When Phạm Sỹ Liêm, former deputy minister of construction, recommended that the Government hire private construction inspection services on December 13, he was met with mixed opinions from experts.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has decided to impose a ban on the sale of all types of soft drinks at schools across the country.

As many as 150 civilian training slots are offered to Việt Nam under the Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation (ITEC) programme every year, according to the Consulate General of India in HCM City.

An agricultural waste treatment that uses bioproducts has been developed by scientists from the Centre of New Material and the Hà Nội Gardening Association.

Support service centres for students with disabilities have been set up at the HCM City Pedagogy University and HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Over the weekend, high-level Vietnamese government officials made visits and extended best wishes to Christian communities across the country on the occasion of Christmas and the New Year holiday.

A fire that broke out on Sunday morning at a hotel on Lý Sơn Island has caused losses estimated at VNĐ2 billion (US$88,000).

Visitors to Tương Bình Hiệp craft village in the southern province of Bình Dương’s Thủ Dầu Một City these days can have opportunities to witness the ebullient activities of artisans producing lacquerware works for the traditional Tết festival.

Đinh La Thăng, former chairman of the Member Council of PetroVietnam (PVN), is set to face further prosecution after investigations conclude in the case of wrongdoings at PVN and its subsidiary PetroVietnam Construction Corporation (PVC).