Việt Nam News

HCM City will publish air and water quality indexes on 48 electronic screens across the city starting later this month, according to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

The Việt Nam Road Administration has decided to conduct inspections and apply closer supervision of toll collection and turnover at two more toll stations managed and operated by Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) investors.

The northwestern province of Điện Biên should capitalise on its advantages to develop tourism, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân told provincial officials yesterday.

Trần Thị Mai (not her real name), 30, from Mỹ Hào District of Hưng Yên Province, divorced her husband ten years after their marriage due to his continued violence toward her. Mai left and went to China. Two years later, Mai’s younger sister also left her husband because of domestic violence. She also went to China.

Two teenagers were the hackers behind recent attacks on the websites of several domestic airports, the Ministry of Public Security said yesterday.

Good settlement of post-war matters like AO/dioxin victims as well as leftover bombs and mines in Việt Nam will make contributions to consolidating and promoting friendship between Việt Nam and the US, said Nguyễn Tâm Chiến, President of the Việt Nam-USA Society (VUS).

The central province of Quảng Nam is struggling to recruit doctors for public hospitals and clinics because of low pay and tough working conditions.

HCM city has announced plans to invest VNĐ3.6 trillion (US$158.4 million) in the construction of a levee along the canal complex of Tham Lương, Bến Cát and Nước Lên.

Residents in Tam Nông District on Monday morning used about 20 vehicles to block a Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) toll station in the area to protest what they call unreasonably high tolls.

A 60-year-old Cambodian woman has been arrested and charged with smuggling eight kilograms of gold from her country into the southern province of An Giang.

The Việt Nam Social Insurance Agency will prioritise the development of e-transaction systems to help control costs and prevent abuse of the social insurance fund this year, officials have said.

Police from the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ on Sunday seized nearly 4,200 packages of cigarettes that were being transported from An Giang Province to the city for consumption.

Hà Nội and the northern provinces will see light showers, scattered drizzles and humid weather until the end of this week, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has said.

International and Vietnamese paediatric nutrition experts shared the latest clinical study on the impact of nutrition intervention on healthy growth and dietary diversity in children at a symposium held on March 11 in Hà Nội.

Đà Nẵng has added the mega project of an underwater tunnel crossing the symbolic Hàn River to the city’s master plan, despite public criticism of its cost and necessity.

More than 3,500 out of one million plus visually impaired people in the country have accessed information technology (IT), improving their schooling, work and daily life.

Authorities of the northern province of Quảng Ninh on Monday denied rumours that the local administration in Móng Cái City had demolished Trà Cổ Church.

Nearly 200 underprivileged children in the northern province of Ninh Bình received free cardiac examinations from doctors from the National Heart Institute and provincial obstetrics and paediatrics hospital on Sunday.