Việt Nam News

The war against smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods will be enhanced in the last months of the year, ahead of Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

In the first 10 months of 2016, the Market Watch agency (under Ministry of Industry and Trade) has inspected 145,000 cases, detected and handled 88,000 violations, and collected fines worth VNĐ523 billion (US$23 million).

The eighth International Conference on the East Sea (South China Sea), themed Co-operation for Regional Security and Development, opened in Nha Trang City, the central coastal province of Khánh Hòa yesterday. 

The southern coastal province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu today confirmed its first Zika case.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam yesterday joined some 500 students in cleaning up the area around Hà Nội’s Linh Đàm Lake.

Sea grape cultivation model has brought economic sizeale benefits to the central province of Ninh Thuận.

Việt Nam Lottery Company (Vietlott) announced a new winner of the jackpot worth VNĐ71 billion (US$3.17 million) yesterday.

A celebration of the great national unity bloc and the 86th founding anniversary of the Việt Nam Fatherland Front (VFF) was held yesterday in Phật Tích commune of Tiên Du district, northern Bắc Ninh Province.

When should you retire? When do you want to retire? These are not personal questions anymore.

Automation and mechanisation in rice and vegetable production in the Mekong Delta is expected to sharply reduce losses and increase value, the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry has said

Despite difficulties in its implementation, Việt Nam is utterly resolute in its plan to scale up the number of facilities that provide voluntary and diversified services of treatment to 200,000 drug addicts by 2020.

Hanoi’s investigative agency began legal proceedings against Nguyen Dieu Linh, owner of the karaoke bar at No. 68 Tran Thai Tong street in Cau Giay district, where 13 customers were killed by a fire on November 1.

The national action month, which aims to raise awareness of public on violence and calls on the public, particularly men and boys, to take action against violence, against women and girls was launched yesterday in Hà Nội.

A grand requiem for traffic accident victims was held yesterday at Trịnh Pagoda in the Yên Tử national relic site, northern Quuảng Ninh Province, with a view to easing the bereaved families’ pains of losing their relatives.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency has arrested 27 Vietnamese fishermen for illegal fishing activities in the waters of its country.

Overseas Vietnamese are an inseparable part of Việt Nam and though they live abroad, their hearts are always with the country, a delegation heard at the third overseas Vietnamese conference, which closed on Sunday in HCM City.

The rapid increase in the number of Việt Nam-trained PhD holders over the past decade coupled with shortcomings revealed in training have stirred public concern, urging the Ministry of Education and Training to tighten management over doctoral training.

Six more patients have tested positive for the Zika virus, increasing the total number of Zika incidences to 35, according to the city’s Department of Health.