Việt Nam News

Unseasonable rain earlier this year has damaged 40,300ha of crops in the southern province of Đồng Nai, according to its Department of Agriculture and Development.

More than 860 people were killed in work-related accidents last year in Viet Nam, according to a report from the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA)’s Labour Safety Department.

Economic violations worth VNĐ41.8 trillion (US$1.84 billion) and misuse of 168ha of land were discovered in the first quarter this year, Deputy Chief of the Government Inspectorate (GI), Ngô Văn Khánh, told reporters at a press conference in Hà Nội yesterday.

The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed government offices to improve their work quality and efficiency.

All of us have heard of absent-minded professors.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hoà Bình has urged the four central coastal localities affected by the recent environmental incident to thoroughly complete compensation by June 30 this year, thus moving to support their livelihood and recover maritime environment.

Transport companies are adding more vehicles for the upcoming Liberation and May Day holidays, with coach fares for long trips from HCM City to other localities expected to increase by 30-40 per cent.

Competency-based training will be applied this year at three community colleges to improve employment skills for students as part of a Việt Nam Skills for Employment Project (VSEP).

HCM City saw a decrease in the number of strikes last year compared to 2015 thanks to a project on labour relations that began in 2014, according to the city’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

The malaria epidemic is facing a risk of a resurgence, with the drug's resistance to the world’s most effective antimalarial drug causing immense concern in Việt Nam’s health sector.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình has asked local authorities of Kon Tum Province to inspect illegal construction work on agricultural land being carried out by an official of the province.

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 At least four people were killed and two injured when  a north-south train crashed into a vehicle on Monday afternoon in the southern province of Bình Định in Tuy Phước District.

Hà Nội on Monday inaugurated its first industrial waste-to-energy (WtE) facility in Nam Sơn Waste Treatment Complex, supplying electricity to the national power grid.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the Hà Nội People’s Committee to look into recent reports that hundreds of fire hydrants don’t have water, affecting the city’s fire-fighting capability.

Police in the southern Tây Ninh Province have arrested a person in connection with a case of illegal cross-border money transportation, valued at more than US$400,000 (VNĐ9 billion), from Cambodia to Việt Nam.

The Hà Nội Department of Information and Communications has asked local telecom providers to disconnect more than 600 illegal phone numbers of businesses that provide classified advertisements since the beginning of the year.

The nation’s education system could see a paradigm shift from knowledge acquisition to how students can use knowledge to solve problems.