Việt Nam News

The Central Committee of Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union on Tuesday (May 23) posthumously awarded the national Brave Youth Badge to Trần Đức Đông, 10, who drowned after saving four children in the southern province of Bình Phước.

Local people’s committees and Hồ Chí Minh Community youth unions nationwide are organising volunteer campaigns for young people from May 31 to August 31.

The Ministry of Health is conducting tests on seafood samples collected from the central provinces, which were affected by the Formosa toxic spill, to determine if they are safe for consumption.

Sex imbalance at birth, with more boys than girls being born, is increasing rapidly and becoming a serious issue in Việt Nam, especially in the Red River Delta.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is considering extending the deadline for the closure of Bồng Miêu gold mine to the end of this month.

The first wind power plant in central Quảng Trị Province has begun contributing electricity to the national power grid.

Landslides continue to take place along the Thao River in Tam Nông District of Phú Thọ Province, northern Việt Nam, damaging the property of residents and endangering their lives.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to examine the building of steel fishing ships under the 2014 Government decree on policies for the development of the fisheries sector.

A key road connecting the two southern provinces of Bình Phước and Bình Dương with the Central Highlands has been downgraded after a short time in use.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc sent a message of condolences to his British counterpart Theresa May over the explosion in Manchester on Monday that killed at least 22 people and injured many.

The HCM City authorities plan to build a bridge across the Vàm Thuật River to link districts 12 and Bình Thạnh, according to the city’s Department of Transport.

Many key routes in Hà Nội’s gateway have been downgraded and posed high risks of traffic accidents due to ineffective maintenance work and repair.

A forum was held in Hà Nội yesterday to provide Australia an insight into Việt Nam’s energy industry and to help domestic firms explore the possibility of co-operation with Australian partners.

A recent survey by the Việt Nam General Confederation of Labour conduct in March and April on 2,500 workers in eight different working groups revealed that workers accepted the fact that they have to work overtime for extra money, not because they want to.

HCM City plans to strengthen links with provinces that supply it farm produce to improve oversight at their points of origin, officials said.

Diagnoses of occupational diseases are on the rise in Viet Nam, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).

Doctors from the Việt Nam – Germany Hospital has conducted the country’s first successful surgery on a female patient with the HIV virus who was suffering from type A aortic dissection.

Their huge workload, limited teaching hours and large numbers of students in classes prevent teachers from improving their classroom-based assessment practices, considered vital to improving English teaching, an expert has said.