Việt Nam News

The Hà Nội People’s Procuracy has proposed the death sentence for Giang Kim Đạt, the former official at a subsidiary of Việt Nam’s Ship Building Industry Corporation, or Vinashin, a state-owned shipbuilding giant.

Sơn La Police have discovered two cases of explosive substances being stored and used in the past week.

Bắc Ninh Police yesterday announced that they have apprehended two men wanted for murder and the robbery of more than 34 tonnes of steel on Tuesday in Thứa Town, Lương Tài District.

The city of Đà Nẵng plans to use an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to observe urban planning and record data.

The General Department of Environment will investigate ‘weird’ mud that damaged fishing nets in the central provinces of Quảng Trị and Quảng Bình.

Japanese consultants have recommended that Da Nang deploys the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model for the first stage of expanding the Liên Chiểu Port, expected to cost VNĐ5.58 trillion (US$247 million).

All boats and floating homes should be removed from the West Lake in Hà Nội by Monday, February, 20, local authorities have confirmed.

The National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) collected more than 9,300 units of blood from donors on Saturday in Hà Nội.

Experts have expressed alarm over the nation’s poor management of invasive and harmful alien species after two cases were widely reported by the media this month.

All the land needed to develop the Thủ Thiêm urban area in HCM City’s District 2 must be acquired this year, People’s Committee Chairman Nguyễn Thành Phong has told the project management board.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday said he was always open to hearing ideas on nation-building from any scientist.

Farmers in the nation’s most advanced province in hi-tech agricultural production have a limited understanding what it actually means, experts say.

RSS Endurance of the Singaporean Navy, with 180 crew members aboard, led by Major Lee Kwok So, anchored in Cam Ranh port in the south central province of Khánh Hòa yesterday, beginning a five-day visit to Vietnam.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the Ministry of Construction to clarify six problems which are of great public concern.

Led by high-tech methods, the VietGAP-compliant shrimp farming project is bringing previously unseen wealth to the southernmost province of Cà Mau.

HCM City authorities plan to relocate some of the city’s wholesale and retail markets to ease traffic congestion and ensure safety for residents.

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến yesterday instructed the preventive health sector to focus on effective prevention and control of both contagious and non-communicable diseases such as cancers on her working visit to the HCMC Pasteur Institute.

President Trần Đại Quang has encouraged HCM City delegates to the National Assembly to listen carefully to citizen feedback and to “continue the practice” of proposing policies that would help the city, even if some of them do not receive immediate approval.