Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Trần Hồng Hà has proposed an emergency solution to avoid further devastation in the aftermath of the landslide that destroyed 14 houses last month in Mekong Delta An Giang Province.
Twenty breeding cows valued at VNĐ500million (US$22,000) were donated to poor households living in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Long An at an event held on Wednesday (May 3) in the province.
A batch of used computerised tomography scan machines was discovered at the Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City on Wednesday.
Two members of a fishing boat are missing after their boat sank in the waters off Hòn Dáu 15 Island close to Hải Phòng City late Wednesday.
More than 6,500 people were admitted to hospitals in HCM City over the recent four-day holiday because of traffic accidents, physical fights, and food poisoning, among other reasons, according to the city’s Health Department.
With the new scheme that is expected to kick start the development of natural sciences in the country, Việt Nam seeks to secure itself a prominent ranking in the region’s top players by 2025.
In 2012 the Việt Nam National Green Growth Strategy was formulated, and has been embraced by all sectors in around 40 provinces and cities. Việt Nam News speaks to Louise Chamberlain, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) country director in Việt Nam, about the country’s green growth.
Despite being dubbed the leading economic sector of HCM City, the city’s tourism sector is struggling with a lack of qualified human resources.
Việt Nam Expressway Services Engineering JSC (VECE) this month began providing authorities video footage and photos of vehicles violating traffic regulations on the HCM City – Long Thành – Dầu Giây Expressway.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV) has approved a project to construct a second terminal at Cát Bi International Airport in the northern port city of Hải Phòng.
Overlapping and poor co-ordination among vocational secondary schools or technical high schools continue to drain the State budget.
For the past three months, the Tam Điệp City Women’s Association in the northern province of Ninh Bình has been cultivating a vegetable garden for kindergarten students. The project aims to provide clean and fresh veggies for the children.
A number of email addresses that impersonate the Việt Nam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), and are used for stealing customer payments, were identified by the mobile network provider Vinaphone on Wednesday.
Việt Nam has become the latest member of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organisation AALCO, where its delegation is attending the 56th annual session of the organisation held in Nairobi, Kenya.
Tourists passing through Tuần Châu international port in northern Quảng Ninh Province will be charged VNĐ40,000 (US$1.8) for a two-way ticket and VNĐ20,000 ($0.9) for a one-way ticket from May 28.
A police officer in central Thừa Thiên - Huế Province’s Huế City died after a speeding motorbike crashed into him on Tuesday afternoon, the city’s Traffic Police Department confirmed on Wednesday morning.
A fire on Tuesday night destroyed a storehouse covering more than 600sq.m, used to store material to make advertisements and posters in Hà Nội’s Bắc Từ Liêm District.
At least 98 people were killed and 90 injured in traffic accidents throughout the country during the holiday between April 29 and May 2, according to the National Committee on Traffic Safety.
Failure to follow planning in many urban areas has negative consequences for urban development, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng said at a recent conference of the construction sector.
