Việt Nam News

Japan and Việt Nam have signed an agreement on a technical co-operation project to improve the network of medical laboratories in Việt Nam.

RMIT University team Woohoo will represent Việt Nam at the Regional HSBC - HKU Asia Pacific Business Case Competition in Hong Kong next June.

A cold spell is predicted to hit Hà Nội and the northern region from Saturday, causing the temperature to drop significantly.

PM Phúc has asked the Ministry of National Defence to cooperate with the ministries of transport and public security and local authorities to re-examine cars and trucks with red number plates – the vehicles assumed to belong to the army – nation wide.

Rescue forces salvaged a truck from Nhất Canal in the Mekong Delta province of Đồng Tháp's Thanh Mỹ Commune on Thursday afternoon.

Firefighters last night were still battling a huge fire that broke out before at a Taiwanese garment factory in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ. 

Wild elephant habitats in the southern province of  Đồng Nai are being reduced and degraded, leading to a lack of food and more conflicts between animals and humans, according to local authorities.

The Sơn Trà Nature Reserve – the green lung of Đà Nẵng - will turn into a desert, and the world’s biggest population of red-shanked douc langurs (Pygathrix nemaeus) will become extinct unless  rapid development of hotels and resorts there is not stopped.

Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust yesterday (March 23) met with leaders of HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH) to extend co-operation between the two schools in the upcoming time.

The chairman of the HCM City’s People’s Committee has urged the Department of Transport to replace unqualified investors of underground parking lot projects that have been delayed for more than 10 years.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee said yesterday it had ordered atmospheric water generators, which extracted water from humid air, to serve locals and tourists.

Firefighters late Thursday afternoon were still battling a huge fire that broke out hours before at a Taiwanese garment factory in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta city of Cần Thơ.

More solutions were urgently in need to ensure Việt Nam’s food security as climate change was no longer a risk but already hitting across the country, said an agricultural deputy minister on Wednesday.

Fire broke out on Thursday in a five-storey building in HCM City’s Kim Biên Street, dangerously close to the chemical market, but was brought under control after two hours.

Police from the northern mountainous province of Lạng Sơn on Wednesday said they have arrested a man near Hoàng Đồng Commune for illegally transporting 73 cakes of heroin.

The health ministry on Wednesday released “The National Guideline on Nutrition for Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers” to improve women’s health and thus the physical stature of Vietnamese people.

Hàn Đức Long, 58, sentenced to death on four occasions, yesterday demanded a public apology from the courts after he was acquitted of charges of child rape and murder.

At least three people were killed at 11pm on Wednesday after a motorbike hit a truck in a head-on collision on Hà Nội’s Vĩnh Tuy Bridge.