Việt Nam News

Four more member universities of Việt Nam National University Hồ Chí Minh City (VNUHCM) on Monday received accreditation certification for educational quality from the Ministry of Education and Training.

Quảng Ninh Province People’s Committee on Monday asked relevant agencies to verify reports by local media on illegal construction of resorts on islets in Bái Tử Long Bay.

Customs officers and anti-smuggling police on Monday afternoon seized a consignment of used gambling machines worth some VNĐ 400 million (US$18,000) at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport.

People traveling on the Hà Nội-Thái Nguyên Expressway are concerned about the risk of traffic accidents in the wake of increasing violations along the sidewalk.

Pooling of land is needed to improve agricultural efficiency, but the Government also needs to have policies to safeguard the benefits of both farmers and businesses, a seminar on land pooling heard in HCM City on Monday.

Nine tractor head trucks that exceeded the prescribed weight limit were seized late Sunday, the Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.

HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the Hà Nội municipal People’s Committee has launched an action month for children themed ‘Enforcing Children Law and Preventing Child Abuse’ in Hà Nội.

HCM City’s economic performance in the first five months of the year has been rock steady.

The central province of Ninh Thuận will implement a forest rehabilitation and planting programme from now through 2021 to protect 20 irrigation lakes.

Countries in the Mekong River basin have been urged to stop building hydroelectric dams on the river’s main stream as alluvial soil and vital nutrients are being seriously depleted.

Six out of 18 kidney patients who were receiving dialysis at northern Hòa Bình Province General Hospital died yesterday morning with suspected sysmtoms of anaphylactoid shock.

A man from the capital city is being investigated for keeping 18 pieces of animal horns at his house in Hoàng Mai District, the Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reported.

Hải Dương province drug investigators have arrested four men for supposed involvement in a drug trafficking ring.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Animal Health Department has declared that all provinces and cities nationwide are free of avian flu, with no new outbreak detected.

A 27-year-old Vietnamese citizen was killed and three others injured in a coach explosion in Vientiane, Laos, on Sunday.

Forty-two workers of JY Vina Company, who were hospitalised at two large hospitals in the Mekong Delta's Bến Tre Province last weekend for alleged food poisoning, are recovering well.

Investment in transport infrastructure in the south falls short of the requirement, hindering the region’s growth, a seminar heard in HCM City on Thursday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has requested country leaders to heighten their focus on preventing Vietnamese fishermen from illegally harvesting seafood in foreign waters.