Việt Nam News

Tests on water from the collective water supplier in Đức Xuyên Commune, Krông Nô District, Central Highlands' Đắk Nông Province, revealed that the amount of arsenic used in insecticides, weed killers, solid-state doping agents and various alloys, exceeded national regulated norms.

One person was killed and another received serious injuries when a buffalo lost control on Sunday in central Hà Tĩnh Province.

A fire broke out around 8.45am on Monday at a goods storehouse in Hà Nội Port on Bạch Đằng Road in the capital city’s Hai Bà Trưng District.

National Highway No 6 section linking Mộc Châu District of northern mountainous province of Sơn La and Sơn La City was open to traffic on August 24.

Vice President Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh on August 25 presented the Friendship Order to History Professor Odon Vallet from the world-renowned Sorbonne University in France.

Children spoke with officials from ministries, sectors and organisations about the prevention of child abuse and child marriage, child labour, and violence against children during a dialogue held on Saturday in Hà Nội.

During the past 30 years, he spent his time to protect wild birds strictly. He’s Bùi Thanh Bảy, or often called Bảy Stock, from Hoành Quan Village, Thụy Liên Commune, Thái Thụy District in the northern province of Thái Bình.

Having no tears to cry, Lò Thị Xăm’s only hope is that her two sons can “love their mother more”. This Thai ethnic lady living in Phát Village, Lóng Sập Ward has her husband dying of drug overdose nearly ten years ago. Unfortunately, her sons gradually follow suit their dad.

Bùi Thanh Sơn, deputy minister of Việt Nam’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, and chair of the APEC Senior Officials Meeting (SOM-3), spoke with Việt Nam News about the Dialogue on Regional Trade Agreement (RTAs) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs).

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has assigned the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) to work with other ministries and localities concerned to build a master plan on prevention and control of natural disasters for mountainous areas.

A group of university students from the southern province of Đồnng Nai on Sunday won the Asia-Pacific robot contest, known as Robocon, held in Tokyo, Japan.

The New York-based Institute for Vietnamese Culture and Education (IVCE) has called for donation in supporting poor students in rural villages of Quảng Ngãi and Lâm Đông Province for new school-year.

HCM City and Long An Province authorities need to co-ordinate closely to build the Bến Lức-Hiệp Phước Section of Ring Road 4, Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyễn Ngọc Đông has said

HCM City will not grant licenses to high-rise construction projects on roads and in areas where planned infrastructure projects have not been completed in an effort to relieve congestion.

Rail tracks located in the inner city have caused problems for Hà Nội’s traffic, however, this will be addressed in the future when city planning is completed.

Officials from the 21 APEC member economies discussed ways to avoid duplication and overlap of APEC-funded projects at a meeting on Saturday in HCM City.

Globalisation and technological changes have contributed to unprecedented economic growth, improvement in living standards, and poverty reduction in the past two centuries, but these can also bring about structural unemployment in the short to medium terms, delegates heard on the second day of the APEC Economic Committee meeting in HCM City on Saturday.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong received Chairman of Myanmar’s Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) Than Htay in Naypyidaw on August 25, as part of his State visit to the country.