Việt Nam News

Police from the northern mountainous province of Lạng Sơn on Wednesday said they have arrested a man near Hoàng Đồng Commune for illegally transporting 73 cakes of heroin.

The health ministry on Wednesday released “The National Guideline on Nutrition for Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers” to improve women’s health and thus the physical stature of Vietnamese people.

Hàn Đức Long, 58, sentenced to death on four occasions, yesterday demanded a public apology from the courts after he was acquitted of charges of child rape and murder.

At least three people were killed at 11pm on Wednesday after a motorbike hit a truck in a head-on collision on Hà Nội’s Vĩnh Tuy Bridge.

The central city’s Oncology Hospital, in co-operation with the British–Swedish biopharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, has launched its first-ever Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation testing programme for non-small cell lung cancer patients in Việt Nam.

Up to four centimetres of land subsidence occurs in the Mekong Delta each year, and exploitation of groundwater is one of several factors causing it.

Quảng Ninh, one of the northern province with high potential in tourism, has gained much high achievement in economic development, but the poor still emerges somewhere.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Wednesday ordered the Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) to revoke the privilege blue plates of 516 cars owned by private businesses.

HCM City People’s Committee has developed a plan to improve the quality of city leaders and officials, adding more youth to the management board between 2016 and 2020.

Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Francis Gurry vowed to keep assisting Việt Nam in the intellectual property field at a meeting with the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyễn Ngọc Thiện in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

Việt Nam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training of Cambodia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on labour co-operation in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

Đào Thanh Chiến, a university graduate from central Thanh Hóa Province, earns a monthly average of VNĐ8 million (US$355) selling ice tea and driving a motorbike taxi, not from working as a public official as he wished after graduating from the university.

Two men have been arrested for spreading news against the State on Facebook - the most popular social network in Việt Nam, the police announced on Wednesday.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuân Phúc has told the Ministry of Transport (MoT) to suspend the licencing for river dredging projects which has stoked great public concern.

In an effort to provide clean water to all households, HCM City in recent years has connected nearly all households in the city to water pipelines and meters for free. But more than 100,000 households in the city continue to use well water, mostly out of habit, according to city officials.

Four cities in Việt Nam – Huế, Đà Nẵng, Hội An and Đồng Hà – have agreed to enter World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF)’s One Planet City Challenge programme to show how cities can be a hub for creativity, ambition and innovation in dealing with climate change.

Minister of Information and Communication (MoIC) Trương Minh Tuấn has asked the US ambassador to Việt Nam, Ted Osius, to work with internet giants Google and Facebook to open their offices in Việt Nam “to easily work over issues regarding compliance to Việt Nam’s law.”

A new partnership to benefit 45,000 Vietnamese factory workers has been launched between Marie Stopes International, the Pou Yuen Industrial Holdings Ltd and the Australian Government.