Việt Nam News

Several leaders and former leaders will be stripped off their Party titles for their roles in the infamous Formosa episode, the Party’s Central Inspection Commission (CIC) said yesterday.

The chairman of HCM City’s People’s Committee, Nguyễn Thành Phong, is seeking approval from the Prime Minister for the construction of the Thủ Thiêm Bridge 4 project.

The land accumulation process should not deprive farmers of their livelihoods and force them into unemployment, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng said at a conference in Vĩnh Phúc Province yesterday.

Natural honey "hunters" in the southern regions of Việt Nam are flirting with injuries and potential death every day to get their hands on the golden nectar, all for a pittance.

Seven members of the multi-level marketing firm Liên Kết Việt have been indicted by the Hà Nội investigave police division for alleged fraudulent appropriation of assets.

Giàng Seo Châu, 31, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Mản Thẩn Commune, a remote area in northern mountainous Lào Cai Province’s Si Ma Cai District, was named one of Viet Nam’s 10 most outstanding young people of 2016.

A 47-year-old patient from HCM City’s District 8 visited several hospitals in the city for health examination and treatment a total of 162 times in the last three months of last year.

 In an effort to reduce traffic congestion, the People’s Committee of HCM City has approved a plan to collect road tolls on cars entering downtown areas.

A fishing vessel was found drifting 140 nautical miles off the coast of Đà Nẵng City at around 2.30am yesterday morning and all its 11 crew members rescued.

Rabies in the northern province of Bắc Kạn was at risk of spreading during the first two months of this year, the provincial people’s committee said on Friday.

The Red Journey blood donation campaign this year will be carried out in 30 provinces and cities during July.

Kids Read, a project encouraging primary school students to read for pleasure in the classroom and at home, was launched on Friday in HCM City.

A mass grave containing remains of some 150 Vietnamese martyrs in the American War was discovered on Thursday in the southern province of Đồng Nai.

LIXIL Vietnam’s INAX sanitary ware brand on Friday donated VNĐ1 billion (US$44,000) to support Việt Nam Television’s Tấm Lòng Việt (Vietnamese Heart) Fund’s heart operation programme.

Minister of Education and Training Phùng Xuân Nhạ yesterday (April 13) instructed universities to develop their brand by improving training programmes that will attract students.

A passenger bus was destroyed after it caught fire on Thursday afternoon when it was travelling across central Nghệ An Province.

An action month on food safety will begin this Saturday in all provinces and cities across the country.

An explosion in Nam Định Province on Thursday night killed three members of a family, including two children, and left another critically injured.