Việt Nam News

The Việt Nam Farmers’ Association and Việt Nam Journalists’ Association on Monday launched a contest themed “Vietnamese Farmers’ Pride” for journalists.

Fashion shows and games about traffic safety were organised on Tuesday at Ấp Đình Primary School in HCM City’s rural Hóc Môn District.

An explosion occurred early Tuesday morning at Nam Kim Steel JSC in southern Bình Dương Province, leaving eight workers injured, four seriously.

The Hà Nội police on Monday decided to formally investigate the sexual abuse case involving an eight-year-old girl, following intense public pressure over a series of paedophile cases came to light of late.

Fishermen in central Hà Tĩnh Province on Monday afternoon released three little dolphins in the ocean.

Northern mountainous Lào Cai Province will this year achieve its target of building 1,219 boarding houses for teachers and 884 rooms for day boarders.

HCM City will publish air and water quality indexes on 48 electronic screens across the city starting later this month, according to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

The Việt Nam Road Administration has decided to conduct inspections and apply closer supervision of toll collection and turnover at two more toll stations managed and operated by Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) investors.

The northwestern province of Điện Biên should capitalise on its advantages to develop tourism, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân told provincial officials yesterday.

Trần Thị Mai (not her real name), 30, from Mỹ Hào District of Hưng Yên Province, divorced her husband ten years after their marriage due to his continued violence toward her. Mai left and went to China. Two years later, Mai’s younger sister also left her husband because of domestic violence. She also went to China.

Two teenagers were the hackers behind recent attacks on the websites of several domestic airports, the Ministry of Public Security said yesterday.

Good settlement of post-war matters like AO/dioxin victims as well as leftover bombs and mines in Việt Nam will make contributions to consolidating and promoting friendship between Việt Nam and the US, said Nguyễn Tâm Chiến, President of the Việt Nam-USA Society (VUS).

The central province of Quảng Nam is struggling to recruit doctors for public hospitals and clinics because of low pay and tough working conditions.

HCM city has announced plans to invest VNĐ3.6 trillion (US$158.4 million) in the construction of a levee along the canal complex of Tham Lương, Bến Cát and Nước Lên.

Residents in Tam Nông District on Monday morning used about 20 vehicles to block a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) toll station in the area to protest what they call unreasonably high tolls.

A 60-year-old Cambodian woman has been arrested and charged with smuggling eight kilograms of gold from her country into the southern province of An Giang.

The Việt Nam Social Insurance Agency will prioritise the development of e-transaction systems to help control costs and prevent abuse of the social insurance fund this year, officials have said.

Police from the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ on Sunday seized nearly 4,200 packages of cigarettes that were being transported from An Giang Province to the city for consumption.