Việt Nam News

The central city of Đà Nẵng in co-operation with experts from the Japan Port Consultants company and the Overseas Coastal Area Development Institute of Japan have begun a pre-feasibility study to make Liên Chiểu Port a cargo port.

Despite smoking bans in public areas, many smokers ignore the prohibition. Non-smokers in crowded places, with children and the elderly present, still have to breathe in cigarette smoke. This has been blamed on punishments that are “not tough enough” by authorities.

Vietnamese women spend over five hours a doing so-called “no-name” work such as cooking, cleaning and childcare - about 2-2.5 hours more than men.

The hand, foot, and mouth disease season has barely begun in HCM City but hospitals are already seeing a rush of patients, many of them severely affected, according to paediatrics hospitals.

The first HATCH! Fair on start-up development will be held at the Grand Palace Convention Centre on October 7 and 8 in HCM City.

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A Việt Nam Red Cross (VNRC) campaign has helped over 74,000 households overcome consequences of a drought and saline intrusion in the Central, Central Highland and Cửu Long Delta regions.

Việt Nam has made significant advances in achieving the United Nations' health-related sustainable development goals (SDG) as its SDG index score increased 59 last year, up from 38 in 2000, according to a baseline analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 published in the Lancet journal on September 21.

A/H1N1 flu in Gò Quao District in Kiên Giang Province was essentially controlled, with the number of cases decreasing gradually, Nguyễn Xuyên Việt, director of the district medical centre, said.

Six workers were injured in the southern province of Đồng Tháp yesterday afternoon when the wall of a brick kiln where they were working collapsed.

Việt Nam won 10 gold, five silver and four bronze medals to rank third at the 11th ASEAN Skills Competition (ASC) that wrapped up in Malaysia yesterday.

House address chaos in Hà Nội will be completely solved this year, according to a decision from municipal authorities.

More incentives are required to encourage citizens to use bicycles instead of motorbikes, Khuất Việt Hùng, vice chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee, said.

Heavy rainfall is expected in HCM City until September 30, with the rainy season extending into early November, according to the Southern Regional Hydro Meteorological Centre in the city.

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến on Tuesday told local health officials to step up preventive methods against the spread of infections and disease, particularly dengue fever and malaria.

Many enterprises have complained about the Labour Code, which restricts overtime for labourers to 200 hours per year. Many have claimed that the regulation has hampered the development of enterprises and cut income for labourers.

Ensuring information security is a must for all Government’s bodies, especially when Việt Nam is developing e-Government, participants to a conference heard yesterday.

With climate change and rising sea levels threatening it, the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta cannot rely on natural advantages for development but should focus on science and technology, a Government minister has said.