Việt Nam News

HCM City on Friday (Oct 20) celebrated the 87^th anniversary of the Việt Nam Women’s Union and national Women’s Day.

 More than 148,260 cases of dengue fever have been reported across the country since the outbreak began earlier this year, of which 30 people have lost their lives.

The Supreme People's Procuracy on Friday decided to prosecute three former jail officers of the T16 detention centre in Hà Nội’s Thanh Oai District.

Huế City is asking authorities to allocate land in central Thừa Thiên- Huế Province to set up markets for street vendors in an attempt to upgrade its tourism profile.

The Hà Nội People’s Committee has proposed the construction of Mễ Sở Bridge, which will connect the city’s Thường Tín District with Hưng Yên Province.

 The price of salt has risen this year but middlemen, rather than farmers, have benefitted.

Việt Nam is developing an integrated database and early warning system for diseases related to climate change, Đỗ Mạnh Cường of the Ministry of Health said on Thursday (October 19).

More investment in hi-tech agriculture is needed to produce high-quality exports with greater added value that can compete globally, speakers said at a conference held on October 19 in HCM City.

Nguyễn Văn Tân, deputy director general of the Office for Population-Family Planning, under the Ministry of Health talks to Zing.vn about urbanisation, maintaining population growth and the dramatic gender imbalance the country will face by 2050.

The Nhị Thiên Đường Bridge No 1 in HCM City’s District 8 officially opened to traffic yesterday, according to the city’s Urban Transport Management Authority No. 4.

Residents in four central provinces have received Government compensation of more than VNĐ6.1 trillion (US$275.2 million) for the April 2016 mass fish kill in which 70 tonnes of fish died, affecting the livelihoods of 260,000 people, due to pollution by the Taiwanese steel company Formosa.

Around 400 delegates will gather in HCM City for the 21st annual conference of the Asian Science Park Association, which opens today.

The HCM City People’s Committee has agreed to receive and treat household waste from neighbouring Long An Province’s Đức Hòa District.

HCM City police have detained two people for selling fake pesticides. They also seized hundreds of pesticide bottles with fake labels.

HCM City People’s High Court started hearing an appeal by pharmaceutical company VN Pharma on Thursday, in the case related to the smuggling and forging of documents to import cancer drug.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Lê Quốc Doanh on Wednesday hailed international scientific research organisations for their contributions to Việt Nam’s agriculture development, in the context of devastating natural disasters due to climate changes.

Third-year university student Dương Huyền in Hà Nội has never been inappropriately touched by strangers, but she has seen it happen with two women within five minutes.

Lack of funding is a serious obstacle for lecturers doing research at universities in Việt Nam.