Việt Nam News

The vaccination programme for children meets the basic requirements of quality and safety, the Preventive Health Department of the Health Ministry said today.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked ministers, leaders of relevant agencies and chairmen of provincial and municipal people’s committees to speed up replies to comments and petitions they receive from the public.

The poor quality of resettlement houses and weak management capacity of the State offices have affected the lives of many displaced residents.

Desperate to find jobs, an increasing number of residents from the northern mountain province of Cao Bằng are illegally crossing the border to China, often to their own detriment, with worrying implications for small communities in the remote area.

HCM City plans to step up enforcement against smuggling and trade fraud to cope with the increasing number of violations, especially at Cát Lái Port in HCM City. 

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HCM City Youth Union launched its 16th Kỳ Nghỉ Hồng (Pink Holiday) Campaign with an estimated 3,000 participants on Sunday  at Youth Culture House in District 1.

Torrential rains, scattered since earlier this month and killing at least nine people and leaving two others missing, are predicted to hit the northern mountainous localities until this Saturday (July 15).

Many SB cargo ships, a type of ship that runs off the coast and in the rivers, have been allegedly transporting passengers illegally on the Hà Tiên-Phú Quốc Island route.

A raging fire burnt down kiosks at the Sài Gòn-Lạng Sơn Trade Centre in Lạng Sơn Province’s Văn Lãng District on Monday morning.

Wrongdoings in budget estimation, settlement, collection and expenditure worth some VNĐ100 billion (US$4.4 million) have been discovered in the central province of Nghệ An during the first half of this year.

The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed the Department of Communication and Information and other relevant agencies to take urgent action to ward off the threat from the Petrwrap ransomware attack.

Investors in Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contracts are delaying installation of electronic toll collection (ETC) equipment at their toll gates on highways, officials say.

The HCM City administration has instructed the Department of Transport to install LED lights in public places and schools on a trial basis to reduce power consumption.

All fuel pumps at petrol stations in HCM City will be sealed from September 2017 to prevent tampering of their meters by the stations and ensure they fully pay taxes.

Police in the central province of Khánh Hòa arrested a Russian woman wanted by Interpol on drug-related charges.

Medical experts are warning against what they see as an anti-vaccine campaign that is being waged on social media.

Thousands of sanitation workers in the southern metropolis of Hồ Chí Minh City are finding their work particularly unrewarding, now more than ever, as they have been working practically without pay since the end of last year due to the dire financial difficulties of their employers.