Việt Nam News

Health ministers from ASEAN member states convened a teleconference yesterday seeking ways to combat Zika virus, which has hit many parts of Southeast Asia.

Farmers in Nghệ An Province's Diễn Châu District are deeply concerned about the extraordinary number of fish that have been dying since Saturday.

The Food Safety Department under the Health Ministry has announced that all 14 samples of food supplements taken from the Hà Nội-based Slim HMN Việt Nam Ltd Company are substandard.

Outstanding students and athletes of the northern province of Ninh Bình were honoured by the Đinh Bộ Lĩnh Study and Talent Encouragement Fund on Sunday.

Bình Định Province’s People's Committee Chairman Hồ Quốc Dũng has approved an electric cable project for the Nhơn Châu island commune (as known as Cù Lao Xanh Island). 

The south-central province of Phú Yên has declared a state of emergency due to severe erosion in the estuary of the Đà Nông River.

People in HCM City struggled to commute on the flooded streets as the city witnessed heavy rainfall and high tides late yesterday afternoon.

Việt Nam expects a place among the top three at the 11th ASEAN Skills Competition (ASC) taking place at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang.

A new international container terminal was officially opened yesterday in HCM City, promising to boost trade activities of the southern city whose biggest port is severely overloaded.

Working in an industry which is not legal, most sex workers in Việt Nam face poor and unsafe workplace conditions, according to a new International Labour Organisation (ILO) Việt Nam study.

Three people died in Hà Nội’s Gia Lâm District and three others are still in hospital after using a power generator while sleeping, police said on Saturday.

The central province of Quảng Trị will dump about 70 tonnes of fish harvested after Formosa released toxic waste water into the ocean bordering Hà Tĩnh, Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên - Huế late in April.

A landslide killed two workers of a hydropower plant in the northern province of Lào Cai in the early morning yesterday.

Minister of Education and Training Phùng Xuân Nhạ on Saturday instructed relevant agencies to pay more attention to how to improve the quality of teaching foreign languages, mostly English, at public schools after low scores of English in this year’s national high school graduation examination.

Lack of effective policies hinders the development of the animal husbandry industry in Việt Nam, experts said.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc attended the groundbreaking ceremony of a 45-floor tower in Vinhomes Riva City urban area in the northern port city of Hải Phòng yesterday.

Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW), Cúc Phương National Park and Hà Nội Wildlife Rescue Centre (WRC) have successfully released 33 Sunda pangolins (Manis javanica) into the wild at an undisclosed secure site.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Intel Products launched a joint effort to restore habitats in the Láng Sen Wetland Reserve last week, with the goal of planting more than 12,000 native trees this year.