Việt Nam News

A ship has sunk and two people are missing following a collision between two ships 118 nautical miles off Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu Province late last night.

People in Quan Thổ 1 Alley on Tôn Đức Thắng Street of Hà Nội live in fear because they do not know when a house that tilts precariously will collapse.

Vietnamese technology group Bkav yesterday said the malware that recently attacked national carrier Vietnam Airlines has also penetrated the websites of government agencies, corporations, banks and research institutes, besides universities.

The Đồng Tháp Province administration has ordered relevant agencies to take immediate measures to prevent landslides along the banks of the Tiền and Hậu rivers, which threaten thousands of lives.

The HCM City Energy Conservation Centre has launched the Saigon Innovation Hub (SI-HUB) to assist initiatives for innovation and start-up businesses.

Experts from Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia and Việt Nam have concluded that the capital needs a modern sewage system for flooding prevention.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has asked Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) provinces to take drastic measures to stop the spread of dengue fever in the region.

 When most of the houses have turned off their lights and darkness covers the city, Lê Hà Phương, a second-year student at Hà Nội College of Medicine wears her first aid bag filled with medical supplies and free medicine and gets ready to visit special patients.

 The American University in Việt Nam has been launched in the central city in a grand opening ceremony, the first education institution under the US curriculum in the central Việt Nam.

An international workshop was held in Hà Nội yesterday to share research on Agent Orange (AO) consequences and discuss measures to help Vietnamese AO/dioxin victims. 

The first two typhoons to hit Việt Nam this year have caused damage worth more than VNĐ6.7 trillion (US$297.7 million), announced the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD) yesterday.(MoARD) yesterday.

The Banking University HCM City will not collect entrance examination fees from candidates from remote, mountainous and beach areas or from the four central provinces of Hà Tĩnh, Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị, and Thừa Thiên Huế.

The provincial people’s committee of the south-central Khánh Hòa Province recently approved a revision of the transport plan of Nha Trang City to create more space for car parks.

An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale hit Mường Nhé District in the northern mountainous Điện Biên Province on Sunday.

A health station in Đắk Lắk Province’s Cư ÊBur Commune was found closed yesterday, when Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam and a health ministry team made a surprise visit.

Freshmen to universities with financial autonomy call on the universities to publicise tuition fees so that they and their families can manage the sum actively.

Several recently discovered cases of fraud related to weights-and-measures equipment at petrol stations and jewellery shops have sounded the alarm over increasing and more sophisticated trade frauds, the Ministry of Science and Technology reported.

National plan on the one-stop-shop mechanism for 2016-2020 set an objective to raise coverage across State agencies to 100 percent by 2018.