Việt Nam News

It was unreasonable to deny inspecting and qualifying cars just because the previous owners had not paid traffic fines, according to a former Traffic Police Department official. 

Some 24 types of supplements and medicines of unknown origin were found by the Department of Crime Prevention and Environmental Crime (PC 49), under Cần Thơ City Police on Tuesday.

Việt Nam’s new law on State Compensation Liability is expected to create transparent mechanisms for compensating people mistreated by authorities, Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyễn Khánh Ngọc said yesterday.

The Việt Nam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) yesterday proposed not to increase the regional minimum wage next year.

After seeing parents grieving the deaths of children who drown every year during the flood season, a resident of the Mekong Delta province of Đồng Tháp Province decided to volunteer as a swimming coach.

Phan Thanh Tiền can now focus on his work at a garment company in HCM City’s Củ Chi District as his 4 ½-year-old son is being taken care of at an officially licensed public kindergarten in the industrial park where he works.

With traditional medicine still popular in Việt Nam, many breast cancer patients use unscientific and useless herbal cures to fight tumours, leaving them with more dangerous cancer and often severe side effects, according to doctors.

Việt Nam’s medium-term economic outlook remains positive, with GDP growth rate projected to accelerate slightly to 6.3 per cent in 2017, according to the latest World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, released yesterday.

Doctors at Trưng Vương Hospital in HCM City have performed their first ever surgery to reduce the curvature in the spine of a patient with Marfan syndrome.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to speed up resettlement of residents living in landslide areas along the river and canals.

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Lương Duy Hanh has been appointed vice leader of the team inspecting Formosa's activities.

HCM City and southern provinces will be battered by heavy rains in the first 10 days of October and, together with high river tides, will cause flooding in many places, the Southern Hydrometeorology Station has forecast.

The traffic volume on the four expressways managed by the Việt Nam Expressway Corporation (VEC) over the past nine months increased 22 per cent over the same period last year to 27.4 million vehicles, VEC reported Tuesday.   

Two men were found dead after their electric fishing tool generated high-voltage current in the water in a field in the central Quảng Bình Province yesterday.

Three people among 28 guests at a wedding party in Hà Giang Province who were hospitalised with symptoms of food poisoning have died, provincial Department of Health director Lương Viết Thuần said.

HCM City needs to continue mobilising all resources to achieve sustainable growth in productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness for the rest of the year, a city official said.

Natural disaster forecasts should be tailored to specific locations instead of large areas, said Nguyễn Văn Khánh, vice chairman of the People’s Committee of the northern province of Yên Bái yesterday.