Việt Nam News

Việt Nam has targeted 90 per cent of children with special circumstances being integrated into the community and having access to development opportunities by 2020.

Till the end of last month, more than 3.3 million poor students nationwide had borrowed loan with interest from the Social Policy Bank for schooling, according to the bank's statistics.

Small businesses should not sell low-quality food products that come from unclear sources, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said to fruit vendors in the capital’s Hoàn Kiếm District while paying an unexpected visit to the Long Biên wholesale vegetable market to inspect food safety, yesterday morning.

With the adoption of cutting-edge technology at a comparatively low cost, Professor Mai Trọng Khoa - Director of the Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Center, at Bạch Mai Hospital - and colleagues have saved many cancer patients “at death’s door”.

Việt Nam’s agriculture has achieved remarkable growth in recent years but needs reforms and policy shifts to overcome major economic and environmental challenges, according to a World Bank report made public yesterday.

The Ministry of Education and Training and Belgian Development Agency are working to improve the capacity of the local workforce by improving management and professional skills of both individuals and organisations through the Facility for Capacity Building (FCB) programme.

A grandmother and her granddaughter drowned yesterday while taking their buffalo to a grassy area near the Đào River in the central Hà Tĩnh Province.

Small businesses should not sell low-quality food products that come from unclear sources, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said to fruit vendors in the capital’s Hoàn Kiếm District this morning.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) is finalising a draft law on alcohol harm prevention and plans to submit it to the National Assembly for consideration in May 2018. 

The central province of Thanh Hóa needs proper socio-economic development policies and measures in the light of international integration, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said at a working session with local authorities in Hà Nội yesterday.

Several years ago, Nguyễn Anh Thư dropped out of school and had no way of earning an income in HCM City. Her family, originally from the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, was too poor to pay for any kind of job training. 

A longtime resident of  Hàng Chiếu Street, 75-year-old Nguyễn Văn Lợi has for many years maintained the daily habit of walking around the Old Quarters for excercise.

The central city has launched a contest on design of bridge and tunnel through the Hàn River  before voting the best one for officially approval.

Local authorities and a house owner are joining hands to pull down a tilting house in the capital’s Đống Đa District.

Police in the northern border province of Lào Cai’s Văn Bàn District arrested a drug smuggler and seized nearly 3kg of heroin yesterday.

The Việt Nam Mathematical Society (VMS) has asked the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) to postpone the introduction of multiple-choice math questions for the 2017 national high school examination.

The Hà Nội People’s Court today sentenced a 28-year-old man to death for murder and robbing homes.

A workshop on the implementation on “Youth led initiatives on promoting access to sexual and reproductive health information and services for Vietnamese youth and adolescents” was held this morning.