Việt Nam News

Thousands of automotive parts and accessories were confiscated by the Hà Nội police from two gangs of thieves near the Hòa Bình (Giời) market in the capital city, the police said on Tuesday.

Police in northern Thanh Hóa Province on Tuesday said they had arrested a local for attempting to take a group of residents to China to work illegally.

Since July 2, 2017, birth certificates, health insurance cards and residence papers of newborns in southern coastal Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province are being delivered right to their homes.

Fines of some VNĐ1 billion (US$44,200) will be imposed on five production units that polluted a river branch in the capital city’s Hà Đông District, the city’s People’s Committee said.

About 1.14 million hectare of rice are to be planted in the northern provinces in the 2016-17 winter-spring crop, down 18,000 hectare compared to the 2015-16  winter-spring crop, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has directed authorities to find the assets of suspects in corruption cases in order to prevent them from being hidden and to help in executing judgments against the accused.

Abrupt weather changes this year have triggered several disease outbreaks, according to health experts.

Doctors at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City have successfully performed the country’s first living paired-kidney exchange transplant.

Only 62 per cent of the 240,000 watercraft operating in the country are registered and quality verified, the Việt Nam Register Agency has reported.

Seventeen former leaders of Mekong Housing Bank (MHB) and Mekong Housing Bank Securities Company (MHBS) including former chairman of the bank’s management board Huỳnh Nam Dũng will be prosecuted for abusing power and irresponsibility that causes serious consequences.

Installing speed bumps and increasing the number of guards at rail crossings are among measures proposed at a meeting held on Monday to find ways to reduce the number of railway accidents.

The National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health under the Health Ministry has conducted a health examination on Vietnamese people who are highly exposed to lead.

Chunks of bark were found to have been carved out of 40 xà cừ trees on Láng Road in Hà Nội’s Đống Đa District on Tuesday.

The chairman of central Bình Định Province’s People’s Committee has approved construction of some 670 houses for citizens in areas affected by the major floods that occurred last year.

Coach operators who are not following changes in the bus routes as instructed by the Hà Nội’s transport authority would be forced to halt operations for a month.

Two fires broke out in HCM City and another one in southern Bình Phước Province on Tuesday morning, leading to property damages, but no fatalities were reported.

The Government has asked the Việt Nam Social Security (VSS) to conduct research to issue electronic health insurance cards to citizens.

A cold spell is forecast to hit the northern region from Wednesday night, bringing the average temperature down to around 13-16 degrees Celsius.