Việt Nam News

A mobile explosive ordnance disposal team of Peace Trees Việt Nam in central Quảng Trị Province on Sunday cleared 22 cluster bombs left from the war in Hương Hóa District. The shrapnel bombs, which belonged to the US army, were found in the garden of a resident in Tân Thành Commune.

A protest against toll collection by local residents at Cầu Rác toll station in Cẩm Xuyên District disrupted traffic for two hours on Sunday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has given the investment green light to building two large-scale reservoirs with capacities of nearly a million cu.m each..

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình has asked authorities of the central Quảng Nam Province to investigate reports of illegal gold exploitation in the Bồng Miêu mine area.

A project to develop the Buôn Ma Thuột coffee brand is expected to benefit more than 15,000 farmers who live in a poor commune in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk.

When municipal authorities issued a Decision No.18 in 2011 on granting preferential loans to landlords for building and upgrading houses to rent to workers, it was widely welcomed.

When asked how many bridges had been built as a result of his fund-raising efforts, farmer Mai Văn Võ, a former war veteran, had no idea.

Việt Nam aims to increase the nationwide forest coverage to 42 per cent by the year 2020, and 45 per cent by 2030.

HCM City’s People’s Committee has set up an interdisciplinary inspection team to check food safety across the city during an action month for food safety that kicked off last Saturday.

Fire flared up again at the Taiwanese Kwong Lun-Mekong garment factory in Cần Thơ City yesterday morning, fifteen days after an earlier fire. No casualties were reported.  

A traffic police officer was killed on Saturday while on duty on Nation Route 1A in Biên Hòa City’s An Bình Ward.

Some 230 labourers have been hired for work and 340 for vocational training during a job fair for people with disabilities (PWD) held in Hà Nội yesterday.

A taxi driver of Vinasun Taxi Group has returned a foreign passenger’s forgotten bag that contained assets worth more than VNĐ250 million (US$11,100).

Hanoi police arrested four persons on Saturday for disturbing public security in Dong Tam Commune, in the outlying district of My Duc.

Several leaders and former leaders will be stripped off their Party titles for their roles in the infamous Formosa episode, the Party’s Central Inspection Commission (CIC) said yesterday.

The chairman of HCM City’s People’s Committee, Nguyễn Thành Phong, is seeking approval from the Prime Minister for the construction of the Thủ Thiêm Bridge 4 project.

The land accumulation process should not deprive farmers of their livelihoods and force them into unemployment, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng said at a conference in Vĩnh Phúc Province yesterday.

Natural honey "hunters" in the southern regions of Việt Nam are flirting with injuries and potential death every day to get their hands on the golden nectar, all for a pittance.