Việt Nam News

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has instructed ministries and local governments in the Mekong Delta to prioritise investment in transportation projects that would help enhance connectivity.

Mass fish deaths have been reported from a reservoir built to collect rainwater in this central province’s Đông Hà Town, emitting a foul odour to nearby areas.

The city’s health department launched three hotlines this morning to receive feedback from people and organisations.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered an investigation into the destruction of po mu trees in military sub-zone 351 belonging to Nam Sông Bung protected forest in the central province of Quảng Nam.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has asked Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Deverlopment in co-operation with police to investigate a testing agency that reportedly falsified documents to allow 800 substandard aquaculture products to be sold.

The south of Việt Nam is highly vulnerable to more drought and salinisation in the future when its fellow countries in the lower Mekong river basin are in the process of irrigating the river water to serve their expanding farm land, experts warned.

An increase in the regional minimum wage in 2017 has not yet been finalised because of differences over the margin of increase of the wage.

Thousands of residents living next to or in proximity to historic relics in Hà Nội are waiting for relocation following plans to restore the sites while local authorities are still trying to find solutions amid a lack of finance and land funding.

The Ministry of Construction is seeking to develop dozens of flood-proof residential areas in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta, in addition to those already built over the past 15 years.

A teacher trainer for the Cambridge University Press urged teachers attending a conference in HCM City yesterday to harness the power of technology, especially the use of video, in the classroom.

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Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a special mechanism for completion of Hà Nội’s Cát Linh-Hà Đông urban railway project in an effort to overcome numerous delays and cost overruns.

Three traffic inspection officials in Cần Thơ City were arrested yesterday for accepting bribes totalling VNĐ3.5 billion (US$159,000) from various drivers who regularly travel to the city for business.  

Police in the northern mountain province of Hòa Bình yesterday arrested two local men smuggling 30 cakes of heroin from Laos. Each cake of heroin weighs about 350 gram.

The education and training ministry said more than 15,200 classrooms for pre-school children across the country failed to meet national standards last year.

HCM City police yesterday charged former vice director of the HCM City branch of PetroVietnam Finance Investment Joint Stock Company (PVFI) Vũ Thị Hồng Lan with abuse of power.

An 800-tonne building has been moved 35m from its original position in the central Nghệ An Province.

An electronic health information system (eHIS) aims to help people living with HIV/AIDS get more benefits from social health insurance.