Việt Nam News

Tonnes of poultry are illegally traded and slaughtered daily in Hà Nội’s markets raising public concern over the spread of avian influenza in the capital.

Temperatures in HCM City shot up to 33 degrees Celsius last week, triggering respiratory and digestive disease and hand, foot, and mouth disease among children, according to the city’s Paediatrics Hospital 1.

HCM City plans to open private lanes for buses on two major streets to speed up operating time and attract bus riders, among other plans to ease traffic congestion, according to the city’s Department of Transport.

Việt Nam has saved 471,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, equivalent to VNĐ764 million (US$33,616) when people nationwide responded to the event switching off unnecessary electrical devices, the Electricity of Vietnam Group’s National Load Dispatch Centre said.

Two foreigners, including Ravi Barkash, 27, an Indian national, and Moon Atfri, 31, from America, were recently arrested and charged with stealing a motorbike, said the HCM City’s police on Saturday.

Three students drowned while swimming in the waters off Xuân Thiều Beach in Đà Nẵng City’s Liên Chiểu District yesterday, said Đàm Quang Hưng, chairman of the district’s People’s Committee.

It was at around 7am that Phạm Xuân Thủy was riding a bicycle around Khương Mai ward in Hà Nội’s Thanh Xuân District. The 64-year-old man was not on a bike tour but on duty to protect social order and security in the area.

The Transport Engineering Design Incorporated (TEDI) has proposed a transport connection project between HCM City and seven other provinces and cities.

Vũ Thị Hằng, principal of Xuân Giao Kindergarten in Lào Cai Province’s Bảo Thắng District, has been suspended after being charged with the mistreatment of a four-year-old.

The Hà Nội People’s Committee has decided to give VNĐ120 billion (US$5.3 million) to pay in advance of salary for 3,700 workers at irrigational enterprises in Hà Nội, who did not receive their full salary over the past five months.

Picking out a lettuce leaf from the greenhouse garden, Israeli President Reuven Ruvi Rivlin had a taste of what Israeli technology has brought to Việt Nam.

The Hà Nội People’s Court has upheld the death sentence handed down to the ringleader and eight other members of a drug ring at an appeal trial in the northern province of Bắc Ninh from March 22-24.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday praised the residents of Quảng Nam for their efforts in making the central province one of 15 localities with the biggest contributions to the State Budget in 2016.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam and other delegates press a button to officially launch a National Immunisation Information System at a ceremony yesterday in Hà Nội. The system will be run nation-wide in June this year to handle shortcomings in immunisation management, such as the impact of population migration or when parents forget their child’s immunisation schedule.— VNA/VNS Photo Thành Đạt

The municipal administration plans to have 70 per cent of industrial production enterprises in HCM City invest at least eight per cent of their pre-tax profits in developing and applying new technologies by 2020.

Overprotective parents are compromising the wholesome development of a considerable number of Vietnamese children, experts warn.

The central province officially launched the Giao Thủy Bridge – one of key project in connection mountainous areas with the provincial centre and Đà Nẵng city – on the occasion of the province’s Liberation Day (March 24th).

Thủ Đức District Hospital on Thursday implanted a double-chamber pacemaker in the body of a 51-year-woman who had an abnormally slow heart rate.