Việt Nam News

A freight train service between Hà Nội and Nanchang City in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi was launched on Wednesday.

About 60,000 sq.m of pavements in the central districts of Hà Nội are being misused as parking areas, blocking pedestrians and degrading footpath quality, Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reports.

New provisions on tourist guide licences in the Law on Tourism, which takes effect next year, will probably take away occupational opportunities of thousands of tourist guides in the country and lead to serious shortage of human resource in this sector, experts have said.

Continuous heavy rain since Sunday evening worsened the inundation in lowland areas in the central provinces of Thừa Thiên-Huế and Quảng Trị, with three people reported dead.

A number of high-quality buses will be used on a trial run on bus routes No. 03 and 33 in December, the HCM City Department of Transport said on Tuesday (November 21).

Pediatric hospitals in HCM City have received four children diagnosed with malaria, including three patients from the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông and one from the southern province of Bình Phước.

Việt Nam targets a GDP growth rate for agriculture at 3 per cent per year by 2020 following an agricultural restructure plan that has been approved by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

More than 6,000 people with disabilities in HCM City and 16 neighbouring cities and provinces will take part in the 18th Camp for People with Disabilities at Suối Tiên Theme Park in HCM City’s District 9 on December 2.

A campaign to end physical violence against children at home and at school was launched on Wednesday morning.

Transport Minister, Nguyễn Văn Thể, shut down the project on expanding part of National Highway No 30, running through the southern provinces of Đồng Tháp and Tiền Giang.

The capital city’s Hoàn Kiếm Lake will be dredged and cleaned by the end of the year, according to the Hà Nội Sewerage and Drainage Company Ltd.

Two men died after a 7-metre-high scaffolding collapsed at a construction site in Tân Phong Ward, in the southern city of Biên Hòa on Tuesday afternoon.

People in 14 provinces across Việt Nam will get access to more financial products and services in the next three years.

An essential services package for women and girls subjected to violence was launched on Wednesday by the United Nations in Việt Nam and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has urged the Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) and its members to continuously expand the organisation's humanitarian role and value in the domestic and international communities.

The cold spell in the northern region strengthened and brought down the temperature to below 8 degrees Celsius in mountainous areas on Wednesday.