Việt Nam News

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình yesterday asked the Hà Nội People’s Committee to verify information according to which nearly 5,000 people risked having their homes destroyed.

Thanks to an efficient new IT system for managing check-ups covered by health insurance, people in the northern province of Thái Nguyên do not need to queue up at hospitals from 3am like in the past.

Health experts discussed ways to tackle barriers and find solutions to provide social health insurance (SHI) to people living with HIV (PLHIV) at a workshop today in HCM City. 

Education for Nature-Việt Nam (ENV) yesterday said it had rescued six lorises, whose scientific name is Lorisidae, three days after they were advertised for sale on line by wild animal traffickers.

Việt Nam, Laos and Thailand are considering introducing bus routes to offer the public better transport connectivity between the three countries.

Construction of a modern archive that will cost VNĐ490 billion (US$2.2 million) in the first phase began in HCM City’s Bình Tân District on Sunday.

Phạm Đức Trung, the pilot killed in a military aircraft crash during a training session on August 26, has been posthumously honoured with the Fatherland Protection Order (first class).

Hậu Giang discovers 70 Chinese working illegally at Lee & Man Việt Nam 

Hundreds of parents at a primary school in the central province of Nghệ An have demanded an end to the application of a new learning and teaching model called the Việt Nam Escuela Nueva (VNEN).

The next court hearing of an Agent Orange lawsuit filed by a French-Vietnamese woman against 26 US chemical company is expected to be held in early 2017.

The “Việt Nam Golden Book of Creativity 2016”, the first book to honour Vietnamese people’s creativeness in science and technology, made its debut yesterday in Hà Nội.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ yesterday said preferential loans were needed  for co-operatives to develop in a sustainable manner and in line with value chain.

Twenty most outstanding youths in following late President Hồ Chí Minh’s teachings were honoured at a ceremony in Hà Nội yesterday.

The Prime Minister has asked ministries, sectors and localities to step up measures to ensure traffic safety and social order while meeting the travel demands of passengers during the upcoming national holiday of National Independence Day (Sept. 2) and the new school year (Sept. 5).

Over 1,720 remote ethnic minority women were supported with finance for income-generating activities through the establishment of women’s Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA).

Quảng Nam People’s Committee on Monday awarded VNĐ20 million (US$880) to officials who investigated the destruction of the pơ mu forest in Nam Giang District.

Cases of diphtheria, whooping cough, measles and Japanese encephalitis still occur in several poor and remote localities and areas with ethnic minorities because residents did not receive the vaccination.

A man and his daughter drowned yesterday while the father was trying to teach the girl swimming in central Hà Tĩnh Province.