Việt Nam News

Companies in the southern province of Đồng Nai need to find more than 30,000 new employees by the end of next month to make up for the shortage caused by the post-Tết staff turnover, according to the local Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Mekong Delta provinces face a threat of H5N1 bird flu with the disease season just starting and farmers leaving their ducks to freely feed in fields following the completion of the winter-spring rice harvest.

The People’s Committee of the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng has approved a programme to preserve bio-diversity with a focus on high-value flora and endemic animal species.

Hospitals in HCM City have been striving to reach five goals to improve the quality of examinations and treatment, including safety, patient satisfaction, efficient management, effective services, and appropriate costs and prices. 

Overseas Vietnamese play an important role in developing Việt Nam’s economy by contributing their talent and intelligence in the science and technology field, the deputy minister of Science and Technology said on Thursday in HCM City.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development plans to hold more unscheduled inspections of food hygiene and safety in food production and trading this year.

Six people belonging to two drug gangs have been arrested for trafficking 14kg of methamphetamine from China to the southern region, the HCM City police said on Thursday.

Hà Nội-based E Hospital announced yesterday it will carry out new services of online-health advice and taking patient samples at home for testing.

HCM City’s Transport Department has built barriers on pavements along some streets in the city centre to prevent motorists from encroaching upon them.

An electric bus using renewable solar energy will be run on trial basis this year on two main roads of Cát Bà Island in the northern Hải Phòng City.

 Severe erosion at the riverbank is putting the lives of hundred households in Nha Trang City at risk while local authorities lack money to comprehensively tackle the problem.

Three factories in Nam Quang industrial zone in the northern province of Hà Giang have been found releasing untreated wastewater into Lô River.

The claim that lumberjacks attacked officials of the management board of the northeast Chư Păh preventive forest to rob logs was untrue.

The online poll on loudspeakers conducted by the Hà Nội’s Department of Information and Communication re-opened on Thursday afternoon after a three-day temporary closure because of a technical error.

Train ticket prices will be reduced on the North-South railway route and some other routes following the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday period, Việt Nam Railway Corporation (VNR) said on Thursday.

Forest rangers in Yok Đôn National Park in the Central Highland province of Đắk Lắk have this month started using bicycles for patrolling instead of going on foot.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam on Thursday asked Hà Nội to put in place an individual medical records system for local residents as soon as possible.

The National Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention and Control and the National Committee for Search and Rescue sent an announcement yesterday telling provincial and local authorities in northern and coastal provinces, ministries and agencies to prepare for coming cold weather.