Việt Nam News

Tropical storm Talas made landfall in the central provinces of Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh at around 1am on Monday, resulting in strong wind and heavy rainfall in the region that killed at least one person and destroyed thousands of houses.

More than 1,500 blood donors have taken part in a festival in Quy Nhơn city in the central province of Bình Định as part of the Hành Trình Đỏ (red journey), a nationwide annual blood donation drive.

The 24th Mùa hè xanh (Green Summer) Volunteer Campaign kicked off in HCM City yesterday attracting over 60,000 youngsters.

Kanchia, a shy 18-year-old woman, was breastfeeding her infant when a most extraordinary request was made of her.

Experts called for more buses and bus routes and controls on private cars and motorcycles to help ease traffic congestion in HCM City.

Nearly 200 scientists, biologists and conservationists all agreed to reserve top priority on biodiversity protection and stop construction any buildings on the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve of Sơn Trà Peninsula.

Coastal localities, especially central provinces of Thanh Hóa, Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh, have mobilised all sources to prepare for tropical storm Talas that is predicted to make its landfall on the seashore from Thanh Hóa to Hà Tĩnh by 4am today (Monday) with torrential rains of up to 350mm.

A national hotline that would provide legal consultation and assistance to victims of sexual abuse and violence will be launched in the near future, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Bình Định Province People’s Committee has urged sectors and localities to work together to tackle low-quality steel-hulled fishing vessels and to direct fishermen to use quality shipbuilding facilities.

Doctors at Thủ Đức District Hospital last Wednesday (July 12) successfully performed the first knee replacement surgery and ligament reconstruction on a patient with hemophilia A, a genetic disorder of blood clotting.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) is setting up a scheme to export high-skilled labour to abroad in an effort to deal with current unemployment at home.

Vietnamese students have bagged three gold medals and one silver at the 49th International Chemistry Olympiad in Thailand, the Ministry of Education and Training announced today.

Exacerbated landslide along the Đồng Nai River in the south has forced Đồng Nai and Lâm Đồng authorities to suspend all sand mining activities in the area despite granted legal licences.

Pollution, fishing by electric shock tools and explosive, rapid infrastructure for tourism service as well as poor co-ordination mechanism among state agencies and local administrations have seen as major challenges for protection and management at Marine-protected areas (MPAs).

The Tây Ninh Province Department of Transport has green lighted Tây Ninh Tourist Trading Joint-stock Company’s proposal to operate electric buses on a trial basis in downtown Tây Ninh city and Hòa Thành District from early next year.

Over 100 participants attended a forum held yesterday in Hà Nội to discuss and gain a greater understanding of Việt Nam’s legal framework addressing child sexual exploitation, with a particular focus on child sex tourism.

The central province of Qhang Nam plans to build four hydro-power plants in the mountainous district of Nam Trà My for socio-economic development of a key national ginseng centre.

Many households in northern mountainous Hoà Bình Province have destroyed their cultivated land in search for gold, claiming that they have dug shrimp ponds to avoid local authority’s supervision.