Việt Nam News

Applying advanced technologies would be a breakthrough-solution for successful restructuring of agricultural production, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Nguyễn Xuân Cường said this week.

Sticking a ‘safe’ logo onto food products is one of the capital city’s recent efforts to fight off unsafe food, but the public is questioning its effectiveness.

Two workers were killed and two others wounded as a wall collapsed on a team of workers when they were demolishing an old building around 1.30pm in Trần Phú street on Wednesday.

The Tourism Department in central Đà Nẵng City yesterday announced the launch of two hotlines to receive timely feedback and quickly respond to reports related to tourist activities.

A 35 year-old woman in HCM City died of dengue fever on Tuesday (Jan 3), taking to six the total number of fatalities due to the disease since last year, according to the Preventive Medicine Centre.

Two secondary school students drowned while playing in an water canal near a construction site in the southern An Giang Province’s Chợ Mới District.

Road accidents and traffic gridlocks are on the rise on National Highway 5, which links Hà Nội and Hải Phòng City, despite there being an alternative faster, smoother expressway.

A seal that often played with locals in the central province of Bình Thuận is believed to have been cruelly killed by humans.

Local farmers have blamed wastewater discharged into the sea by a couple recently, for the mass clam deaths in central Thanh Hóa Province’s Hải Lộc Commune.

Việt Nam is expected to produce six-in-one vaccines in 2017 or 2018 and by 2020 these will be used widely in the country, according to the health ministry. 

The HCM City People’s Committee has approved 115 projects that will cost VNĐ4.2 trillion (US$193.5 million).

A network of thousands of outstanding Vietnamese individuals living in foreign countries world-wide, is expected to be set up following a project newly kicked off by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union yesterday held a ceremony to honour 10 outstanding young citizens of 2016, chosen from 126 nominations, double the number of nominees last year. Eligible youth are 30 years old and under.

Several contentious issues are dogging implementation of key power projects managed by the Southern Power Management Board (SPBM), contradictory regulations and land evaluation and compensation rules that residents are not ready to accept.

A National Assembly (NA) task force will monitor compensation disbursement and implementation of social welfare policies for fishermen and others affected by the mass fish deaths in central Viet Nam last April.

The social security sector will continue carrying out public administrative reforms with a focus on improving public services

To help patients have stem cell transplants without having to take an expensive trip,  the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion,  in collaboration with the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, have been collecting umbilical cord blood samples from pregnant women since May 2014.

Hà Nội's Department of Culture and Sports has proposed that churches and pagodas in the city ring their bells to awaken people and mark the start of the New Year.