Việt Nam News

The  American  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  Việt Nam last Saturday awarded 50 scholarships worth a total of VNĐ 620 million (US$27,300) to university students in HCM City.

The Hà Nội police are applying a range of measures to ease traffic congestion in the city as Tết (Lunar New Year) draws near.

People raise more concerns about food safety and hygiene in the run-up to Tết, the lunar new year celebrations, when demand for meat grows. Some recent visible violations related to animal slaughter in Hà Nội are especially troubling.

Deputy PM Trương Hòa Bình has urged Tân Sơn Nhất international airport in HCM City to step up efforts to “tackle airport overload, cyberattacks and laser beam incidents to ensure the security of the southern region’s busiest airport”.

The HCM City Urban Transport Management Authority No 4 on Sunday began construction of D1 Street connecting Nguyễn Văn Linh Street with Sài Gòn University and the Him Lam residential area in District 7.

Three babies conceived via in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in the northern province of Thái Nguyên were born on Sunday, Hospital A’s director Đỗ Minh Thịnh said.

The central city’s traffic police has launched its own facebook, Cảnh Sát Giao Thông Thành Phố Đà Nẵng, or Đà Nẵng City’s Traffic Police, to get feedback and exchange information and idea with local residents and tourists after a two-month trial.

Southern Đồng Nai Province has reported its first case of Zika – a woman who tested positive for the mosquito-borne virus, the local health department reported.

The HCM City police have busted a drug trafficking racket from Cambodia to Việt Nam, seizing around 1.4kg heroin and 4kg ecstasy, and arresting eight persons involved.

The Hà Nội People’s Court on Friday handed down prison sentences to two Chinese nationals for “using computer, telecommunication and internet networks to appropriate property”.

The Tây Ninh People’s Court yesterday sentenced Nguyễn Ánh Ngọc, a 40-year-old woman, to 13 years in jail for defrauding property owners and appropriating properties.

One person died and another was injured in an accident on Sunday morning in An Phú Ward, Thuận An Town of the southern province of Bình Dương.

Quảng Bình Province border guards said yesterday they had safely moved a bomb weighing 350kg from a construction site in the Cha Lo International Border Gate with Laos.

HCM City has carried out drastic measures to ensure food safety and hygiene, but this is a long-term fight against unsafe food, said vice chairwoman of the city People’s Committee.

During the 2016-2020 period, HCM City will use VNĐ16.4 trillion (US$735 million) from the State budget, along with VNĐ24.2 trillion ($1.07 billion) from other financial resources to invest in phase 2 of a new rural area programme.

For the first time, poor farmers and those from ethnic minorities groups of central Quảng Trị Province have approached organic agriculture projects, helping them to get out of poverty and maintain their livelihoods.

Flooding due to heavy torrential rainfall has taken the lives of 13 people across the central region over the weekend amid fears of more rain this week. 

In an unprecedented show of love, gratitude and grief, thousands of Vietnamese citizens, expatriates and even tourists visited the Cuban embassy in Hà Nội to pay their last respects to Fidel Castro (1926-2016).