Việt Nam News

The General Department of Customs has asked all local customs departments to take bold measures to prevent the smuggling of goods by air, which is expected to rise around Tết.

More than 7,000 children and teenagers will receive training on skills of self-protection, prevention against abuse, trafficking and exploitation.

The central and city and the Ireland Embassy in Việt Nam has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on high quality human resource education, management skills for the city’s personnel and start-up programme for students in the central city.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will soon officially issue a circular to prohibit the use of cysteamine - a substance used in animal husbandry.

The HCM City Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has called on all related agencies to check the high-tide controlling culvert system is in good shape to prevent unexpected occurrences during Tết (the Lunar New Year).

Workers have begun dismantling a water music project in the centre of this northern coastal city after more than a year of ineffective operations and being criticised for wasteful expenditure.

The Ministries of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Information and Communications and Việt Nam Journalists Association, on Thursday, launched a writing contest on poverty reduction.

Government officials have announced that mineral exploitation will be more tightly controlled under a new regulation coming into effect January 15.

The HCM City Centre for Human Resource Forecast and Labour Information foresees a mere 3 per cent shortage in worker numbers after Tết (the Lunar New Year).

An outbreak of chickenpox has been reported at Gunze Việt Nam Co.ltd in HCM City’s Tân Thuận Export Processing Zone, with 30 people contracting the disease since November 17, according to the HCM City Preventive Health Centre.

The 2017 national press award on the fight and prevention of corruption and wastefulness has been launched by the Việt Nam Journalists’ Association (VJA) and the Việt Nam Fatherland Front Central Committee.

Kids at Hoa Mai Kindergarten in Long Mỹ Town, southern Hậu Giang Province have outdoor lessons at the school garden almost everyday except on rainy days. They learn how to work the soil, to sow, to weed, to water and harvest vegetable and flowers.

The People’s Court of Hà Nội on Wednesday sentenced to prison five members of a group for illegally selling arms.

A bomb weighing over 220kg left behind from the Việt Nam war was safely removed from a family’s garden in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Đắk Nông yesterday.

A barrel exploded in HCM City on Wednesday while two men were trying to cut it, killing one and leaving the other injured.

Stepping up water resources planning is among the core tasks the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has set for 2017.

The Ministry of Health will conduct a complete inspection of two major fish sauce manufacturers, Masan Food and Khải Hoàn JSC, soon after the Lunar New Year Festival.

A series of more than 40 blood donation festivals, called "Ngày Chủ Nhật đỏ” (Red Sunday), will take place in 25 provinces and cities nationwide this Sunday.