Việt Nam News

A 47-year-old patient from HCM City’s District 8 visited several hospitals in the city for health examination and treatment a total of 162 times in the last three months of last year.

 In an effort to reduce traffic congestion, the People’s Committee of HCM City has approved a plan to collect road tolls on cars entering downtown areas.

A fishing vessel was found drifting 140 nautical miles off the coast of Đà Nẵng City at around 2.30am yesterday morning and all its 11 crew members rescued.

Rabies in the northern province of Bắc Kạn was at risk of spreading during the first two months of this year, the provincial people’s committee said on Friday.

The Red Journey blood donation campaign this year will be carried out in 30 provinces and cities during July.

Kids Read, a project encouraging primary school students to read for pleasure in the classroom and at home, was launched on Friday in HCM City.

A mass grave containing remains of some 150 Vietnamese martyrs in the American War was discovered on Thursday in the southern province of Đồng Nai.

LIXIL Vietnam’s INAX sanitary ware brand on Friday donated VNĐ1 billion (US$44,000) to support Việt Nam Television’s Tấm Lòng Việt (Vietnamese Heart) Fund’s heart operation programme.

Minister of Education and Training Phùng Xuân Nhạ yesterday (April 13) instructed universities to develop their brand by improving training programmes that will attract students.

A passenger bus was destroyed after it caught fire on Thursday afternoon when it was travelling across central Nghệ An Province.

An action month on food safety will begin this Saturday in all provinces and cities across the country.

An explosion in Nam Định Province on Thursday night killed three members of a family, including two children, and left another critically injured.

A fire at a pig farm in Gia Lai Province killed more than 1,000 pigs on Thursday, with damages of over VNĐ 1 billion (US$44,400).

Japanese security forces on Friday said they had arrested a 46-year-old man who allegedly killed Vietnamese girl Lê Thị Nhật Linh.

Demand for new staff at the country’s enterprises increased in the first quarter, according to job recruitment agencies.

Việt Nam offers optimal conditions for investors, especially in tourism, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said at a meeting on Thursday with executives of Sun Group, one of the major investors in the country’s tourism with large projects on Phú Quốc Island in the Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang.

Asset recovery in civil lawsuits, particularly those relating to major economic corruption, remains low as authorities have found it difficult to verify the financial status of defendants, said Lê Quang Tiến, head of Hà Nội’s Department of Civil Judgment Enforcement.

President Trần Đại Quang has urged the State Audit to focus more on sectors and areas with high risks of corruption and cases of public concern, thus giving advices to authorised agencies on how to adjust policies and legal regulation to prevent corruption.