Việt Nam News

New provisions on tourist guide licences in the Law on Tourism, which takes effect next year, will probably take away occupational opportunities of thousands of tourist guides in the country and lead to serious shortage of human resource in this sector, experts have said.

More than 6,000 people with disabilities in HCM City and 16 neighbouring cities and provinces will take part in the 18th Camp for People with Disabilities at Suối Tiên Theme Park in HCM City’s District 9 on December 2.

A campaign to end physical violence against children at home and at school was launched on Wednesday morning.

Two men died after a 7-metre-high scaffolding collapsed at a construction site in Tân Phong Ward, in the southern city of Biên Hòa on Tuesday afternoon.

The capital city’s Hoàn Kiếm Lake will be dredged and cleaned by the end of the year, according to the Hà Nội Sewerage and Drainage Company Ltd.

Transport Minister, Nguyễn Văn Thể, shut down the project on expanding part of National Highway No 30, running through the southern provinces of Đồng Tháp and Tiền Giang.

People in 14 provinces across Việt Nam will get access to more financial products and services in the next three years.

An essential services package for women and girls subjected to violence was launched on Wednesday by the United Nations in Việt Nam and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has urged the Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) and its members to continuously expand the organisation's humanitarian role and value in the domestic and international communities.

The cold spell in the northern region strengthened and brought down the temperature to below 8 degrees Celsius in mountainous areas on Wednesday.

Four people died and others were left seriously injured after their car crashed into a truck on Tuesday afternoon.

Health Minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến yesterday ordered the immediate transfer of critically ill infants from a provincial hospital to centrally-administered ones.

The National Assembly (NA) will decide the fate of a future high-speed railway in Việt Nam in 2019 after the transport ministry completes a project report, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said this week.

The eighth National Congress of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) opened in Hà Nội yesterday with the participation of 1250 delegates including VBS dignitaries; monks and nuns; leaders and former leaders of the Party, State and Vietnam Fatherland Front and representatives of international organisations.

FrieslandCampina Việt Nam has donated 24,000 glasses of milk worth VND180 million to school students in the central region, which was hit by the recent Typhoon Damrey.

Disabled people do not benefit much from government incentive policies and social support.

Daily Limited Company, the operator of the delayed water bus service in HCM City, said the first boats would begin plying on November 25.

Health Minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến said yesterday that non-infectious diseases were the leading cause of death in Việt Nam and had become a socio-economic burden. She was speaking at a national scientific conference yesterday on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.