Việt Nam News

A 70-year-old Japanese tourist was admitted to Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City on Lunar New Year’s Eve with a sudden onset of severe chest pain.

 The rate of children suffering from gastric disease is growing due to schooling pressure and inappropriate food, health experts have said.

Quite a few Vietnamese companies are taking advantage of sand dredging privileges authorised by the Government to rake in huge illegal profits, according to an expose by the Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper.

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng congratulated the women’s movement and the Việt Nam Women’s Union (VWU) for their past achievements in his speech at the opening of the 12th National Women’s Congress  in Hà Nội yesterday.

The number of passengers at Cam Ranh International Airport has surged substantially in recent years while infrastructure fails to address the overload, according to central Khánh Hòa Province’s People’s Committee.

More than 500 Ngọc Linh ginseng plants were stolen from a ginseng farm in central province of Quảng Nam last Tuesday.

A contest to design, build and programme robots from LEGO pieces for primary school students will be held in HCM City and Đà Nẵng in May.

A fire was reported at the construction site of Vĩnh Tân Thermal Power Plant No 4 in the central province of Bình Thuận on Tuesday morning, according to a Electricity of Việt Nam (EVN) report.

Sanitation workers on Tuesday morning started collecting garbage and cleaning the area where a number of floating restaurants and piers used to locate on West Lake, the Tây Hồ District People’s Committee said.

The secretary of HCM City’s Party Committee, Đinh La Thăng, on Monday met with Jin Liqun, the chairman of the Asian Investment and Infrastructure Bank (AIIB) to discuss financing for infrastructure projects in the city.

Inspectors of Hà Nội’s Transport Department have identified 29 locations across the city where coaches usually pick or drop off passengers illegally.

At least two people were seriously injured, three houses and a wood workshop were damaged on a construction’s crane collapse early Tuesday in HCM City’s District 12.

Two died and another was hospitalised for fatal symptoms in central Quảng Trị Province as they were mistaking toad eggs for lunch.

A fire broke out on Monday morning at Hoàng Sinh Export-Import joint-stock Company's 1000sq.m furniture workshop and store in southern Bình Dương Province’s Thủ Dầu Một.

The Hà Nội City Court on Monday convicted two Chinese men for withdrawing hundreds of millions of đồng using fake ATM cards.

A pilot programme on creating markets with adequate food safety and hygiene in 32 provinces and cities in the 2011-15 period has increased consumer confidence, according to the director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Science and Technology Department.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Cà Mau is taking plenty of precautions this year after several forest fires broke out last year at the U Minh Hạ National Park.

The Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông is providing better access to loans and training courses to farmers in an aim to increase productivity and quality of coffee farms.