Việt Nam News

Last Friday, the principal of a public kindergarten in Lào Cai Province was suspended on charges of mistreating a four-year-old boy enrolled at the school.

The HCM City Department of Taxation is set to open an office dedicated to serving household businesses and newly established companies in the first week of April.

Nguyễn Thị Nghiêm let out a sigh of relief. Her house in District 10, among many others in the city, will no longer be included in a city plan that required homeowners to postpone renovation to their homes to make way for a new road.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) on Tuesday reported about unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination from past wars in Việt Nam and activities undertaken to mitigate its effects.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked city departments and all 24 districts to prepare for natural disasters this year by completing maps about flooding hotspots and raising public awareness about disaster risks.

Tất Thành Cang, Deputy Standing Secretary of the HCM City Party Committee, on Tuesday (March 28) held a meeting with the city’s Study Promotion Association to assess its implementation of Instruction No 04-CT/TU meant to enhance the city Party’s role in building an educated society.

Strong partnership and multi-agency efforts were vital for success in the fight against modern slavery and human trafficking, a conference that opened in central Đà Nẵng City heard on Wednesday.

A fire broke out early on Wednesday at a timber workshop in a crowded residential area in Lâm Đồng Province’s Thạnh Mỹ township, destroying all the wooden products inside.

Local health insurance authorities of the central province of Nghệ An have issued some 5,000 health insurance cards with wrong personal information, the provincial authority has said.

The groundbreaking ceremony for upgrading National Highway No 60 from Rạch Miễu bridge to Cổ Chiên bridge in the Mekong Delta province of Bến Tre kicked off on Monday.

HCM City’s drug crime investigation sub-department (PC47) has uncovered a drug-trafficking ring, arresting two suspects and seizing heroin and ecstasy from them.

Hà Nội will stop operating five bus routes that serve cadres and civil servants travelling from Hà Đông to the centre of the capital from early next month.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has ordered the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan to co-operate with Japanese authorities to urgently clarify the cause of the death of Lê Thị Nhật Linh, 9, and arrest the culprit.

The Ministry of Health will soon spell out what medicines and medical techniques should be used by ward- and commune-level health centres around the country to make the family medicine model more efficient and reassure patients.

The slow growth of the agricultural sector starting in 2015, shortcomings of small-scale production, poor quality and productivity amid fiercer global competition are threatening the sustainability of farming in Việt Nam and demanding institutional and mechanism changes.

Microsoft Việt Nam and the Audio Books Charity Fund for the Blind launched a year-long ICT Training programme for the visually impaired in HCM City on March 25.

The central city plans to petition the Prime Minister for adjustments to the Sơn Trà Master Plan in order to better protect the eponymous nature reserve.

A new system, implemented by the city’s Department of Health, hopes to encourage patients to voice their dissatisfaction with hospitals in order to improve the quality of care.