Việt Nam News

When asked how many bridges had been built as a result of his fund-raising efforts, farmer Mai Văn Võ, a former war veteran, had no idea.

Việt Nam aims to increase the nationwide forest coverage to 42 per cent by the year 2020, and 45 per cent by 2030.

HCM City’s People’s Committee has set up an interdisciplinary inspection team to check food safety across the city during an action month for food safety that kicked off last Saturday.

Fire flared up again at the Taiwanese Kwong Lun-Mekong garment factory in Cần Thơ City yesterday morning, fifteen days after an earlier fire. No casualties were reported.  

A traffic police officer was killed on Saturday while on duty on Nation Route 1A in Biên Hòa City’s An Bình Ward.

Some 230 labourers have been hired for work and 340 for vocational training during a job fair for people with disabilities (PWD) held in Hà Nội yesterday.

A taxi driver of Vinasun Taxi Group has returned a foreign passenger’s forgotten bag that contained assets worth more than VNĐ250 million (US$11,100).

Hanoi police arrested four persons on Saturday for disturbing public security in Dong Tam Commune, in the outlying district of My Duc.

Several leaders and former leaders will be stripped off their Party titles for their roles in the infamous Formosa episode, the Party’s Central Inspection Commission (CIC) said yesterday.

The chairman of HCM City’s People’s Committee, Nguyễn Thành Phong, is seeking approval from the Prime Minister for the construction of the Thủ Thiêm Bridge 4 project.

The land accumulation process should not deprive farmers of their livelihoods and force them into unemployment, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng said at a conference in Vĩnh Phúc Province yesterday.

Natural honey "hunters" in the southern regions of Việt Nam are flirting with injuries and potential death every day to get their hands on the golden nectar, all for a pittance.

Seven members of the multi-level marketing firm Liên Kết Việt have been indicted by the Hà Nội investigave police division for alleged fraudulent appropriation of assets.

Giàng Seo Châu, 31, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Mản Thẩn Commune, a remote area in northern mountainous Lào Cai Province’s Si Ma Cai District, was named one of Viet Nam’s 10 most outstanding young people of 2016.

A 47-year-old patient from HCM City’s District 8 visited several hospitals in the city for health examination and treatment a total of 162 times in the last three months of last year.

 In an effort to reduce traffic congestion, the People’s Committee of HCM City has approved a plan to collect road tolls on cars entering downtown areas.

A fishing vessel was found drifting 140 nautical miles off the coast of Đà Nẵng City at around 2.30am yesterday morning and all its 11 crew members rescued.

Rabies in the northern province of Bắc Kạn was at risk of spreading during the first two months of this year, the provincial people’s committee said on Friday.