Việt Nam News

Đà Nẵng has added the mega project of an underwater tunnel crossing the symbolic Hàn River to the city’s master plan, despite public criticism of its cost and necessity.

More than 3,500 out of one million plus visually impaired people in the country have accessed information technology (IT), improving their schooling, work and daily life.

Authorities of the northern province of Quảng Ninh on Monday denied rumours that the local administration in Móng Cái City had demolished Trà Cổ Church.

Nearly 200 underprivileged children in the northern province of Ninh Bình received free cardiac examinations from doctors from the National Heart Institute and provincial obstetrics and paediatrics hospital on Sunday.

Former Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio and the Japanese Friendship Association (JFA) presented 60 wheelchairs to disabled Vietnamese children and Agent Orange victims at a ceremony here on Sunday. 

The issue of sexual harassment in the workplace - an often subtle but disturbing form of aggression – is increasingly troubling without actions taken to stop it

All temporary limestone kilns will be forced to stop operation by 2018, as part of an effort to curb environmental pollution and promote safety, the northern coastal Quảng Ninh Province’s People’s Committee has announced.

Rural infrastructure in northern mountainous provinces has improved significantly over the last six years thanks to the implementation of a sustainable infrastructure development project.

Four members of a family were killed when a major fire broke out at 12:30am on Sunday at house No 1686 on Provincial Highway 10 in HCM City’s Bình Thành District.

President Trần Đại Quang requested the Ministry of Public Security and the Supreme People’s Procuracy of Việt Nam to direct judicial authorities to investigate a recent incident involving the sexual abuse of children in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked for stringent management of liquor products following a series of alcohol poisoning cases.

HCM City Food Safety Management Board was officially launched last Sarturday to ensure health and quality of living for people in the city.

Local authorities of Nghệ An Province’s Quỳ Hợp District are investigating the breach in a wall of a tin tailing pond, resulting in the polluting of rivers and killing fish in the district, said Vi Thanh Tường, vice chairman of the district’s People’s Committee said yesterday.

Hà Nội investigative police has decided to prosecute a recent case of methanol poisoning that hospitalised 12 college students in the capital’s Cầu Giấy District.

Many bridges in southern Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province have restricted navigational clearance height and width, posing potential risks of accidents for vessels and affecting the development of local waterway transport.

Hà Nội People’s Committee has asked relevant agencies to take measures to speed up the issuance of land use right certificates to individuals and organisations in the city.

Construction on the Bưng Bridge project in HCM City’s Tân Phú and Bình Tân districts will begin in April, according to the city’s Urban Traffic Management Zone No.1.

HCM City plans to become a smart city, and the task requires concerted efforts by the administration and information technology community, a top city leader has said.