Việt Nam News

Students from Lê Ngọc Hân Primary School won 11 prizes in HCM City’s annual Robothon Contest held last Sunday.

The HCM City Industrial Parks and Export Processing Zone Trade Union on Sunday (November 6) inaugurated the first cultural centre for workers in the Hi-tech Park in District 9.

All trees on Kim Mã Street in Hà Nội, relocated last month to make space for the metro’s Nhổn-Hà Nội railway station line, have survived and begun to grow.

A baby boy has been born via artificial insemination (AI) at Phú Thọ General Hospital in the northern Phú Thọ Province. 

Construction of the 59.6km Dầu Giây – Tân Phú Expressway in Đồng Nai Province is expected to begin in the third quarter of next year, according to the Ministry of Transport.

Hà Nội police have seized firecrackers weighing 63kg transported by a truck from northern Lào Cai Province to Hà Nội.

Floods occurred again in the central provinces of Hà Tĩnh and Quảng Bình, due to heavy rainfall and water released from a local power plant.

Parents need to do more to protect their kids from the growing number of online threats, but many are unaware of the dangers, a global study by online security company Kaspersky Lab has found.

The People's Court in Hà Nội has sentenced a husband and wife to prison for abusing trust and cheating their acquaintances of more than VNĐ15.2 billion (US$181,000).

Three members of a family in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu died after eating toad gruel, according to local hospital. 

Vietnamese young people and their Chinese peers exchanged knowledge about environmental protection at a forum in Ha Long City, Việt Nam’s northern province of Quảng Ninh yesterday as part of the ongoing third Việt Nam-China Youth Festival.

Residents in the central provinces of Hà Tĩnh and Thừa Thiên-Huế affected by the recent environmental incident started to receive their first-phase compensation package.

The National External Information Service Awards 2016, held by the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Popularisation and Education and the Steering Committee for External Information Service, launched its official call for submissions yesterday.

Construction violations have been rampant for years in Hà Nội but lax management and irresolute solutions have left the problem unresolved.

Coal-fired thermal power plants should focus on technology renovation so as to minimise environmental pollution, given that thermal power will provide much of Viet Nam’s future energy, experts warn.

The Japanese-made Kaze Shuttle Bus picks up passengers in Bình Dương City.

Việt Nam has successfully produced a combined vaccine against measles and rubella that expectedly would benefit some 1.5 million children and thousands of women in fertility ages throughout the country with possible cheaper and timely vaccination.

The rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the country fell by 16 per cent between 2009 and 2015, but health experts have said that more needs to be done to reach the goal of having a transmission rate of under 2 per cent by 2020 nationwide.