Việt Nam News

Construction of a tunnel under the Tân Phong intersection in Biên Hòa city began on Tuesday (August 8).

Doctors at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City have performed the country’s first robotic surgery on a patient with liver cancer.

The HCM City Department of Information and Communications yesterday announced the launch of the 9th Information and Communication Technology Awards.

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has asked concerned organisations to investigate two consecutive breakdowns in which a train was derailed twice at Yên Viên Railway Station on the Hà Nội-Lào Cai railway route last Sunday and Monday.

Over 12.7ha of remediated land at the Đà Nẵng International Airport, part of a major Agent Orange clean-up project, will be returned to the Ministry of Transport under an agreement signed yesterday. 

The environment ministry has agreed not to dump nearly one million cubic metre of waste mud discarded by a power plant into Bình Thuận Province’s sea following a public outcry against the plan.

The Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) has called on local and international organisations, individuals and the community to help those affected by heavy rains and floods in the northern provinces.

Humane Society International - Việt Nam (HSI) is calling on the South African government to honour its commitment to protect rhinos by refusing permits for an auction of rhinoceros horns.

Stargazers in Việt Nam will get the opportunity to see the Perseid meteor shower, the largest one this year, between Saturday midnight and early Sunday morning.

Rescue forces are trying to prevent an oil spill after a ship carrying 18 tonnes of diesel sank in the waters between Thanh Hóa and Nghệ An provinces on Sunday.

A Vietnamese passenger was detained on Tuesday at the Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport for illegally transporting drugs, airport customs said.

The Hà Nội Police Department has proposed to move the Hà Nội Railway Station and all the inter-provincial rail tracks to the suburbs to avoid traffic congestion and fatal accidents in the inner city.

Hoàng Đình Cảnh, deputy director of the Department of HIV-AIDS Prevention and Control, talks to the newspaper Kinh tế&Đô thị (Economics and Urban Affairs) about the scheme to expand health insurance to cover HIV-AIDS patients.

All taxis in Hà Nội may have to be painted the same colour and have their operation areas registered from 2025, if the municipal Department of Transport’s current draft policy gets the nod.

Customs officers may have colluded in the disappearance of 213 containers full of electric appliances, electronics and other goods, according to the General Department of Customs and Police.

The Government Committee for Religious Affairs granted a certificate for a new Bible school under the Seventh-Day Adventist Church of Việt Nam at a ceremony held in HCM City on Monday.
 

The HCM City Department of Taxation has said it has put tamper-proof seals on fuel pumps in seven petrol stations in District 1 and will cover the rest of the district besides Districts 3, 4, 5, and 10 by August 11.

The Deputy Minister of Defence has urged all military units to comply with the Central Military Commission’s regulations on management and use of military land near HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất airport.