Việt Nam News

Hà Nội police have arrested Cao Mạnh Hùng, 34, for the alleged sexual abuse of an eight-year-old girl in Hoàng Mai District’s Thịnh Liệt Ward.

 Two Vietnamese fishermen were brought back to the country by air on Friday morning after they fell into the sea and went adrift on the Gulf of Thailand.

A man was arrested in Nghệ An Province on Thursday while attempting to smuggle VNĐ2 billion (US$88,800) to Laos.

Around 29,759 litres of home-brewed liquor have been seized in Hà Nội in the first 12 days of a citywide campaign against illicit alcohol.

A new anti-corruption assessment indicates that the fight against corruption on the provincial level in Việt Nam has only met half of the Government’s expectations.

The Prime Minister on Thursday asked the Ministry of Public Security to urgently investigate the information that organised criminals were threatening officials of the northern Bắc Ninh province’s People’s Committee and other local offices.

HCM City wants to expand the use of online public services to simplify administrative procedures and reduce their cost for the public, deputy chairman of the city’s People’s Committee, Trần Vĩnh Tuyến said.

Phạm Thị Cúc, who lives Hải Ninh Commune in the central province of Quảng Bình’s Quảng Ninh District, had hoped that her life could change if her husband worked as a guest worker overseas.

An estimated 12.5 million people will be eligible for agriculture land tax exemption, leaving merely 77,000 people still subject to this tax.

It was an endearing sight – a little boy accompanying his mother as she walked the streets, picking up trash.

Việt Nam’s cashew exports in the first two months of the year fell by 3.3 per cent to US$255 million, according to the Việt Nam Cashew Association.

 The national transport sector has been told to seek ways of developing infrastructure to catch up with the growing travel demand of Vietnamese people, despite a severe shortage of capital.

A little boy in A Mú Sung Commune of the northern mountainous province of Lào Cai. — VNS Photo Việt Thanh

Housing development should be done along the under-construction metro network while jobs should be created nearby to reduce the need for transport in congested HCM City, an expert has said.

A wedding turned tragic as a van carrying the groom’s relatives crashed into a truck in Hà Nam Province on Thursday morning, leaving three dead and another 14 injured.

Those who are silent on the sexual abuse of children support the crime, participants agreed at a workshop in Hà Nội on Tuesday.

HCM City’s Department of Planning and Investment has petitioned the city’s People’s Committee to approve a project to build roads along the Tham Lương - Bến Cát - Nước Lên canals under a Build – Transfer (BT) contract.

The Australian government and the Vietnamese education and training ministry co-organised a workshop on Thursday to validate a toolkit developed to assist APEC countries in quality checks for online education.