Việt Nam News

Many pavements in Hà Nội have been cleared on the first day of a campaign to curb encroachment on sidewalks, authorised agencies have said.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has urged the Central Highlands region to develop into a prosperous area by promoting its biodiversity, cultural values and organic agriculture.

The Ministry of Health has announced the establishment of the National Centralised Drug Procurement Centre (NCDPC) at a ceremony on Friday in Hà Nội.

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến has been conferred the honourary title of visiting professor by the University of Oxford for a second term, from 2016 to 2021.

The Transport Ministry has informed the Prime Minister that a more thorough review of all bus and coach routes in the capital city will be carried out to balance supply and demand.

Four men, suspected to be part of a larger crime ring, were caught red-handed by the criminal police siphoning gasoline from a tanker in HCM City on Thursday.

Quảng Ninh Province plans to close down all traditional lime kilns by 2018, Vũ Văn Diện, deputy chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, said.

The death penalty was submitted on Thursday by the People’s Procuracy of Hòa Bình Province against 11 defendants for “illegally trading and storing drugs” as part of a massive trans-national heroin trafficking operation.

Erosion have taken over 300m of Mỹ Khê beach on Võ Nguyên Giáp street in Sơn Trà peninsula since it blew off 100m of beach earlier this year.

Forest data management and investment promotion were among the topics on the agenda of a seminar held in HCM City Wednesday with Finnish assistance.

Over 60 Vietnamese entrepreneurs have convened in HCM City to hear about the benefits of corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies that integrate zero-tolerance towards threatened wildlife consumption.

The website of HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport, tansonnhatairport.vn, was hacked late Wednesday, with many people reporting they were unable to log on at about 10:45 pm. 

Special Task Police Battalion No 1, an elite unit of the Ministry of Public Security’s Mobile Police High Command, marked its 20th anniversary and was awarded the Feat Order (first class) by President Trần Đại Quang in the capital on Thursday. 

Monitoring of the import and trading of fresh foods without clear origins will be strengthened to keep them out and ensure food safety, a top Cần Thơ health official has said.

The city’s Urban Transport Infrastructure Projects Management Board on Wednesday explained fare hike suspicion of rapid bus purchase as reported by local media recently.

Competent authorities in 2016 discovered and solved hundreds of thousands cases of smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit products, reported the 389 National Steering Committee at an online conference yesterday.

The Sông Hậu Food Company, a rice exporter, has reduced its energy consumption by 983,764 kWh in the past four years, saving US$62,615.

A pregnant woman in HCM City was saved from uterine rupture while in labour by doctors from four hospitals thanks to an inter-hospital alert system.