Việt Nam News

Irish Aid will grant 578,000 euros (US$685,000 ) to support ten partnerships between Irish and Vietnamese higher education institutions on teaching and research co-operation during 2017-2018.

On a recent weekend, Janeth took two children she was taking care of home after watching a movie at the cinema. She then cooked lunch, fed them and tucked them in for a nap before cleaning the house.

The death of four pre-term and low birth weight infants at Bắc Ninh Hospital in Monday, which was said to have been caused by hospital-acquired infections, has raised the alarm about this issue in Việt Nam.

The Water Resources Directorate (WRD) plans to repair some 700 reservoirs at high risk of bursting by 2030, an official said on Thursday.

The southern province of Bình Dương plans to seek more partnerships with neighbouring cities and provinces, businesses and local and international experts to build a Bình Dương smart city, Mai Hùng Dũng, deputy chairman of the province’s People’s Committee, said at a press conference on November 23.

Hundreds of urban design projects in Hà Nội have been put on the shelf for years, forcing many people whose homes would eventually disappear to live in misery.

Advanced training programmes are needed to improve human resources working in the high-tech agriculture sector, experts have said.

The World Wide Fund for Nature Việt Nam (WWF) opened a forest plantation exhibition yesterday on certified sustainable wood furniture.

Recent heavy rains and floods have seriously damaged National Highway No. 16 in central Nghệ An, leading to a "red alert" situation.

The HCM City chapter of the Việt Nam Red Cross Society on November 21 organised a ceremony to mark the charity organisation’s 71^st anniversary on November 23 in the country and honour 71 philanthropists.

Residents of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum have to collect water from springs for daily use as the water supply works in the province have degraded.

A freight train service between Hà Nội and Nanchang City in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi was launched on Wednesday.

About 60,000 sq.m of pavements in the central districts of Hà Nội are being misused as parking areas, blocking pedestrians and degrading footpath quality, Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reports.

Pediatric hospitals in HCM City have received four children diagnosed with malaria, including three patients from the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông and one from the southern province of Bình Phước.

Việt Nam targets a GDP growth rate for agriculture at 3 per cent per year by 2020 following an agricultural restructure plan that has been approved by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

A number of high-quality buses will be used on a trial run on bus routes No. 03 and 33 in December, the HCM City Department of Transport said on Tuesday (November 21).