Việt Nam News

HCM City leaders have called on the city Youth Union to provide greater support to young people starting up businesses, with a focus on innovation and technology.

Thousands of reservoirs across the country are facing threat of breaking as they are in full capacity due to heavy rainfalls in recent weeks.

Since 2012, over 12,000 households in the northern mountain province of Sơn La have been plagued by water pollution.

Việt Nam’s national energy development plan does not include geothermal sources, but a senior official said yesterday that it was time to study their potential in the country.

The number of Vietnamese women and girls in STEM (sciences, technology, engineering, and math) fields remains low, mostly due to social and environmental factors, Dr Lê Thị Kim Phụng, deputy head of HCM City University of Technology’s chemical engineering faculty, said yesterday at a conference held in the city.

The HCM City Department of Transport has proposed offering several electric bus routes to pick up and drop off passengers using the city’s water-bus service, which is slated to start at the end of November.

The New Port-Sóng Thần Inland Clearance Deport (ICD) company has launched the first rooftop solar-power logistics system in binh Duong Province in Viet Nam.

 Sand is clogging Cửa Đại seaport in central Quảng Nam Province’s Hội An City due to the floods over the past few days, posing difficulties for thousands of local fishermen.

An explosion in a tugboat in Hải Phòng City on Sunday left four people injured with critical burns.

The Philippines army has transferred three sailors kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants to the Vietnamese Embassy in the country.

Massive waves have washed away two brothers in the central province of Quảng Ngãi. The body of one boy remains missing.

The Ministry of Public Security is setting up a national data system about population to manage and supply basic information about residents exactly and consistently via their personal numbers.

In Việt Nam, getting into a university can be considered a national obsession. However, after each cut-throat university entrance competition, the number of students remaining until graduation steadily declining over the years have become a concern for educators.

Shortage of funds and human resources are being blamed for the loose management of several plant protection products and in the south.

After her first child died when she was just five months old, Nguyễn Thị Th., a nurse from northern Thanh Hóa Province’s Quảng Xương District, gave birth to a healthy baby girl.

Taxation and customs general departments must simplify their administrative procedures and eliminate unnecessary licences to attract more overseas Vietnamese investors, experts said.

The centralised bidding process to procure medical equipment and other supplies for public hospitals in the capital city is floundering on disagreements over quality and pricing, local reports say.

Commuters in central QuảngTrị Province are risking their lives commuting on old, unsafe bridges, which have been weakened by recent floods in the locality.