Việt Nam News

Six workers of a gold mine in the northern Lào Cai Province have reportedly become the latest victims of typhoon Dianmu as their tent was swept away by floods.

Coastguards in the southernmost Cà Mau Province’s Ngọc Hiển District saved six fishermen drifting in the sea off Rạch Gốc Town, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

One person was killed and seven seriously injured when a scaffolding collapsed even as workers were pouring concrete for constructing a house in Bình Định Province early today.

The late arrival of floods in the Mekong Delta provinces this year has been blamed on a major attack by rats on crops there.

The People’s Committee of HCM City has approved a plan from now to 2020 to offer extended kindergarten hours for children of workers at industrial parks (IPs) and export processing zones (EPZs) who work overtime.

The implementation of nutritional practices in hospitals is still a neglected issue although it is vital in significantly reducing mortality in critically ill patients, experts have said.

Deforestation in Quảng Bình’s Rào Nan River upstream threatening the life of 50,000 residents

Hải Phòng Port in northern Hải Phòng City is targeted to become the national-level seaport and the international gate of the north for an estimated goods of 109-114 million tonnes in and out and about 25,800 arrivals of foreign tourists by 2020.

Typhoon Dianmu has so far cost the lives of at least seven people and left another two missing after sweeping through northern Việt Nam over the weekend.

A collision between a dump truck and a four-seater car caused hours-long traffic jam on Phan Trọng Tuệ Road in Thanh Trì District in the southeastern side of Hà Nội this morning.

The police will investigate an extremely serious shooting in this northern mountainous province even though the two victims and a shooter were dead, Major General Đặng Trần Chiêu, director of Yên Bái’s Police, said.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has suggested the State Bank of Việt Nam clear, reschedule or put off debts for farmers who have been affected by the worst drought and saltwater intrusion in Việt Nam in almost a century.

The Ministry of Education and Training has encouraged schools across the country to voluntarily continue applying the new model of learning and teaching, called the Việt Nam Escuela Nueva (VNEN).

From a start-up with two cows, and after several serious economic losses, Đặng Ngọc Phong, from a poor farming family in the Mekong delta province of Đồng Tháp, now owns a large cow farming business. 

The HCM City People’s Committee spent VNĐ52.5 billion (US$2.34 million) on activities for children and teenagers over two months this summer.

The levelling of land for construction purposes, as well as the effects of climate change and rising sea levels, has contributed to a dramatic increase in water levels of the Sài Gòn River.

Hospitals quality management plays a very important role and if it’s not done in a proper way, incidents can happen and repeat, Health minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến said at a two-day conference on hospitals quality in Hà Nội.

Vietnamese students won two gold medals and one silver and bronze at the 28th International Olympiad in Informatics in Russia.