Việt Nam News

A mass grave containing remains of some 150 Vietnamese martyrs in the American War was discovered on Thursday in the southern province of Đồng Nai.

LIXIL Vietnam’s INAX sanitary ware brand on Friday donated VNĐ1 billion (US$44,000) to support Việt Nam Television’s Tấm Lòng Việt (Vietnamese Heart) Fund’s heart operation programme.

Minister of Education and Training Phùng Xuân Nhạ yesterday (April 13) instructed universities to develop their brand by improving training programmes that will attract students.

A passenger bus was destroyed after it caught fire on Thursday afternoon when it was travelling across central Nghệ An Province.

An action month on food safety will begin this Saturday in all provinces and cities across the country.

An explosion in Nam Định Province on Thursday night killed three members of a family, including two children, and left another critically injured.

A fire at a pig farm in Gia Lai Province killed more than 1,000 pigs on Thursday, with damages of over VNĐ 1 billion (US$44,400).

Japanese security forces on Friday said they had arrested a 46-year-old man who allegedly killed Vietnamese girl Lê Thị Nhật Linh.

Demand for new staff at the country’s enterprises increased in the first quarter, according to job recruitment agencies.

Việt Nam offers optimal conditions for investors, especially in tourism, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said at a meeting on Thursday with executives of Sun Group, one of the major investors in the country’s tourism with large projects on Phú Quốc Island in the Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang.

Asset recovery in civil lawsuits, particularly those relating to major economic corruption, remains low as authorities have found it difficult to verify the financial status of defendants, said Lê Quang Tiến, head of Hà Nội’s Department of Civil Judgment Enforcement.

President Trần Đại Quang has urged the State Audit to focus more on sectors and areas with high risks of corruption and cases of public concern, thus giving advices to authorised agencies on how to adjust policies and legal regulation to prevent corruption.

Police in southern Đồng Nai Province’s Vĩnh Cửu District yesterday arrested a man suspected to have caused a fire at a lubricant recycling plant in a cajuput forest on Wednesday night.

A draft of a new general education programme was introduced by the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) at a meeting with the press in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

The foundation layers of residential houses and buildings in HCM City are being designed and constructed without proper State office management.

Fifty prominent women in various fields including politics, business, social and charitable activities, science, education, communications, entertainment, arts, and sports were honoured by Forbes Vietnam magazine at a ceremony held in HCM City on Wednesday.

HCM City plans to establish three more hi-tech agriculture parks by 2020 with the aim of becoming one of the country’s leading cities in high-tech agricultural development.

HCM City authorities have asked for the Prime Minister’s permission to urgently build a flyover bridge instead of following normal protocol, which could delay construction until next year.