Việt Nam News

Thành Nguyễn hair salon on Phạm Hồng Thái street, from the outside, looks to be your fairly run-of-the-mill establishment. But once you venture inside, it’s hard not to notice a strange silence quite unbefitting usually chatty and busy hair salon, save for the familiar sounds of metal-against-metal sounds of scissors or occasional blow-dryer’s white noise

A technique for freezing to preserve red blood cells with glycerol at -80 degree Celsius for 10 years and a milk with high protein which is the first product made by a Vietnamese nutritionist are two of the outstanding scientific research works awarded the KOVA Prize in the category of Creative Ideas for Applied Science last Saturday (December 17).

Việt Nam’s fertility rate has declined from 6.4 to 2.1 children per woman over the last 55 years, but the rate varies widely among provinces, according to the General Department of Population and Family Planning.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has instructed ministries and agencies to mobilise all forces and resources to ensure safety and food for residents in flood-hit areas and minimise losses of human lives and property.

Natural disasters have cost the northern province of Cà Mau VNĐ1.427 trillion (US$63 million) this year, the provincial People’s Committee said.

The central city’s People’s Committee has asked two joint-stock steel companies – Dana Ý and Dana Úc – to stop production of two factories in Liên Chiểu and Hòa Vang districts, due to the serious pollution they continued to cause.

The Hà Nội People’s High Court started hearing an appeal yesterday on a high-profile corruption and economic mismanagement case at the State-owned Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) which resulted in the loss of over VNĐ2.425 trillion (US$106.6 million).

Chợ Rẫy Hospital and Vạn Khang SOS Company yesterday (December 16) signed an agreement for developing a home-based healthcare service and emergency aid system outside hospitals.

The 2015 Migration Survey provides critical data for the government to create and manage sound evidence-based policies and plans to address the current and future needs of migrants.

Saving energy and using it efficiently and economically should be the national goal in the coming years, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng said yesterday.

KON TUM – A highly prized Vietnamese species, indigenous to the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, is threatened with extinction, and the Government is gearing up to reverse its decline.

Doãn Trung Dũng, arrested for the murder of Nguyễn Thị Hát, 61, and her three grandchildren in Uông Bí City, was sentenced to death in a speedy trial yesterday.

A petrol station was engulfed in flames in HCM City yesterday evening, destroying some dozens of motorbikes nearby.

Ministries, agencies and administrations of central provinces have been requested to work harder to deal with the widespread flooding which has left heavy consequences in the central region. 

A project aiming to promote biodiversity in Việt Nam was launched yesterday by the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources in the northern province of Lào Cai.

The Ministry of Public Security on Wednesday arrested Nguyễn XuânLong for allegedly spreading the rumour on social network that Việt Nam would replace the current banknotes with new ones.

A road-safety programme called Lifting Safety was launched on Thursday (Dec 15) to identify safety risks in the community living near the Cái Mép International Terminal (CMIT) in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province.

More than 400,000 readers in rural areas can access books and a system of over 9,000 civil libraries has been built in 26 provinces in Việt Nam since 2007. This is thanks to the “Books for rural areas of Việt Nam” programme.