Việt Nam News

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.

Authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp will continue to closely monitor the illegal breeding of crawfish, which has caused serious damage to crops in the area.

Huỳnh Quốc Toản, a resident from Phú Tân Commune in Cà Mau Province’s Phú Tân District, said he no longer worried about his house being ruined by natural disasters.

Việt Nam plans to invest in its transport infrastructure comprehensively while linking development strategies among sectors in order to develop a multi-modal transport environment, making the country the gateway connecting East Asia to the Indian Ocean.

Biologists have found 22 animal species, including nine endangered ones, through a wildlife supervision programme in the Bà Nà-Núi Chúa Nature Reserve near the central city of Đà Nẵng.

A new species of Shitake mushroom called Lentinula platinedodes has been found in Cát Tiên National Park in Đồng Nai and Lâm Đồng provinces.

A telemedicine system connecting Preah Ket Mealea Hospital (Royal Cambodian Armed Forces General Hospital) with Việt Nam’s 175 Military Hospital was launched yesterday to assist Cambodian doctors in diagnosis and treatment.

Pollution caused by different trade villages in the northern province of Bắc Ninh are adversely affecting local residents’ health and the economic development, according to a new study.

Service and entertainment businesses in the West Lake area will be closed for a cleaning and renovating project, the Hà Nội People’s Committee said in an official document.

After being trained by doctors from the Thủ Đức District Hospital, surgeons at another local hospital in HCM City, District 11, on Thursday performed their first hip replacement operation on a 98-year-old patient.

The number of nails spread on the stretches of the National Route 51 passing through several communes in Đồng Nai Province has increased recently, creating risk of traffic accidents and frustrating motorists and local authorities.  

A fire broke out at 4am today at a commercial property in the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) province of Đắk Lắk’s Krông Pắk District, leading to property damage, but no fatalities were reported.

A digital copy of every news and feature story published on online newspapers must be stored independently and kept unchanged for at least one year for inspection purpose, the government has said.

Six fishermen from the central province of Quảng Trị were rescued and taken home safely today after their boat sank at sea by broken machine.

Some 7,300 houses will be built and rebuilt in Hà Nội from now until July 27 for people with recognised contribution to the nation.