Việt Nam News

Việt Nam Expressway Corporation (VEC) has proposed a plan to the Transport Ministry to upgrade and expand the Liêm Tuyền intersection on the Cầu Giẽ-Ninh Bình Highway.

Australia and Việt Nam have started a reciprocal work and holiday visa programme from March 1.

The central city people’s committee will start an education on landmines and bomb awareness and accidents project with funding from the US’s Secretary through Catholic Relief Service organisation in 2017-20.

A spate of fires in the ancient town of Hội An is causing concern for citizens and local authorities. A project on fire fighting and prevention is looking for funding of VNĐ240 billion.  

The sound of children reciting lessons aloud rings through the house of ‘teacher Nhật’ — as his 71 adopted children lovingly call him — located in the distant commune of Ia Hlốp, in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.

Last month, while Kiều Văn Mạnh was delivering timber in the capital city’s Thạch Thất District, the planks of wood he was carrying came into contact with the overhead power lines and caused a 23-minute power outage for the two districts of Thạch Thất and Ba Vì.

The municipal Customs Department is now offering online services at Level 3 for 41 administrative procedures.

Hà Nội People’s Committee has called for a halt to any activities related to fish breeding and aquaculture exploitation in West Lake in order to protect the water environment and tourism development.

The chairman of the HCM City’s People’s Committee has urged district authorities to seek long-term measures to free up pavements in an aim to beautify the city and maintain security and order.

A pregnant woman and an 8-year-old student were killed on Tuesday after a truck hit their motorbike in the southern province of Đồng Nai.

Police in the northern Lai Châu Province’s Tân Uyên District have arrested two persons for illegally transporting 39 cakes of heroin.

Doctors at the HCM City Paediatrics Hospital 1 have successfully operated and removed a ball of hair 12cm in diameter from the stomach and small intestine of a six-year-old girl.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs to study recent reports that Vietnamese workers sent to work in Taiwan were paying brokerage fees that were higher than regulated.

The Hoàn Kiếm District police in Hà Nội have slapped a woman with a fine of VNĐ6 million (US$266) for littering a pavement.

A flock of 18 red-headed cranes has recently returned to Phú Mỹ Reserve in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang, according to Nguyễn Phong Vân, director of the reserve.

The municipal administration has asked local authorities to urgently take preventive measures against a possible A/H5N1 bird flu outbreak.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the central province of Khánh Hòa to develop tourism as an economic driving force, given its natural conditions, during a working session with local authorities yesterday.

One morning last month 53-year-old Hà Nội resident Vũ Hữu woke up feeling weak over half of his body. He could barely grasp items with his hands and his legs felt like jelly.