Việt Nam News

After putting in 28 years on his job, railway worker Phạm Hồng Sơn based in Hải Dương Province, 57km to the east of the capital city, decided to quit his job last July at the age of 48.

Only five of 35 planned mineral resources maps have been completed, making it challenging for the government to reach its 2020 deadline for completing the map projects, officials said yesterday.

Economic growth can only be sustained if the status of women is improved, Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh said at a Việt Nam-Laos-Cambodia women’s forum held yesterday in HCM City.

Dương Thị Lan, 53, a farmer in Tân Lập Commune in the northern mountainous Yên Bái Province, has built a veritable agricultural empire, with business activities ranging from animal breeding, forest planting to offering agricultural products. Earning over VNĐ800million (US$34,800) a year, she was honored by the Việt Nam Farmers’ Association as one of the most outstanding Vietnamese farmers.  

The Red Cross yesterday (September 15) launched a commission to support its humanitarian movements and charity activities.

Police in this central province have arrested a man for operating a ring that smuggled some 50kg of explosive material to process bombs in Tam Kỳ District.

Doksuri, considered the most powerful tropical typhoon to hit Việt Nam in a decade, is expected to make landfall in the central provinces later today afternoon.

The number of new dengue cases has declined nearly 24 per cent nationwide over the past four weeks, the health ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department director Trần Đắc Phu said on Thursday.

The Việt Nam Railway is planning to run a pilot programme, installing cameras at road-railway crossings to catch violations and limit unsafe situations when trains pass.

About 16 flights between cities Đồng Hới, Huế, Quảng Bình and from Chu Lai to HCM City and Chiangmai, Thailand, have been cancelled as the tenth tropical storm for the year, Doksuri, headed for coastal central provinces.

V.T.A, a 65 year-old woman who lives in Đống Đa District, was unhappy with her weight and the size of her waist. Last week, the Hà Nội Department of Health found that the solution she sought – weight loss injections and other treatments at a salon in Cầu Giấy – was offered illegally and dangerously to V.T.A and many others.

Surrounded by bamboo, Trần Thị Đo, 76, quietly splits each bamboo tube into thin wickers for weaving baskets. Many residents of Thái Mỹ craft village in HCM City weave baskets like Đo does every day, but they are all elderly women and men. Do said youth are giving up this job for better work in industrial zones.

Custom officials at HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport have taken a man into custody for allegedly trying to smuggle in dozens of cheetah and leopard fangs and African lion claws.

The World Bank Group on Thursday released its new Country Partnership Framework (CFP) with Việt Nam, focusing on inclusive growth, investment in people, environmental sustainability and good governance.

More than 600 local and international traffic experts and policymakers are expected to take part in the 12th International Conference of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) in HCM City and Bình Dương Province next week.

The People’s Committee of Cô Tô Island, a tourist hotspot in northern Quảng Ninh Province, plans to eliminate all wooden huts illegally built on defence land by the end of this month.

A number of New Zealand educational institutions currently offer co-delivered programmes in partnership with Vietnamese counterparts, according to that country’s government agency for international education, Education New Zealand.