Việt Nam News

The Criminal Investigation Police Department has joined forces with police in the northern province of Bắc Ninh to detain a group of people for threatening the chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and several other officials, Major General Hồ Sỹ Tiến, director of the department, announced Saturday.

It has been eight years since Ly Van Hấp, a retired official, made use of his ancestors’ land and opened a wet market for poor vendors on T1 Street in HCM City’s Tân Phú District.

Hoàng Lê Kha High School of Tây Ninh Province and Trần Đại Nghĩa and Mạc Đĩnh Chi High Schools in HCM City won first prizes in the Open, Interschool and SRobot Clip at the fifth “Having Fun with Robots – Learning good Pascal” competition (SRobot), organisers announced last Saturday.

Vocational training and occupational counselling for people with autism is needed to help them live independently and better integrate into society, experts said.

Laws and policies relating to AIDS, drugs, and prostitution have been amended to help those affected to easily get benefits from government programmes, such as methadone and ARV therapy. But in reality, many people still face difficulties receiving the benefits because of ineffectiveness in policy implementation.

The central city’s construction department has suspended construction of a coastal new international Đa Phước urban project in the downtown Hải Châu district due to a lack of a completion report on environtment assessment.

Public concern is once again inspiring changes to education programmes in schools, with calls for more sex education to be included in the curriculum so that children can better protect themselves from sexual abuse.

 The body of the last sailor aboard the Hải Thành 26-BLC cargo ship that sank off the coast of southern Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu  province was found on Saturday. 

The second body of a crewmember from the wrecked ship Hải Thành 26 off the coastal province’s waters has been recovered by marine rescuers and returned to his family yesterday afternoon.

The southern province police department said that the Kwong Lung Meko Company didn’t follow its fire prevention obligations properly, leading to a devastating fire last week on March 23.

Vietnam News Agency (VNA) General Director Nguyễn Đức Lợi yesterday called for training co-operation with French wire service AFP.

A container truck carrying cashew nuts lost control and flipped over early yesterday morning in Thuận Lợi Commune, Đồng Phú District in southern Bình Phước Province.

Starting in July, makers and sellers of subpar quality helmets will be slapped with stiff penalties and subject to a new government resolution.

HCM City’s Chợ Rẫy Hospital on Thursday diagnosed the first ever patient in Việt Nam with Hageman factor deficiency, a rare genetic bleeding disorder.

Following Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc’s order to stop the illegal use of injected substances in shrimp exports, authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have begun several measures to end the practice by the end of next year.

Despite higher growth than in the same period last year, HCM City has fallen short of its economic growth target in the first quarter.

Residential houses have been built on top of former farmland parcels for decades now, however, existing law has not provided legitimacy for this practice, leading to years-long problems for the residents and headaches for local authorities.

The Traffic Police Department, in co-operation with the Mobile Police High Command and Hà Nội Police have discovered and seized 13 illegal sand exploitation vessels working in the Hồng (Red) River's border between Hà Nội and Phú Thọ Province.