Việt Nam News

A landslide killed two workers of a hydropower plant in the northern province of Lào Cai in the early morning yesterday.

Minister of Education and Training Phùng Xuân Nhạ on Saturday instructed relevant agencies to pay more attention to how to improve the quality of teaching foreign languages, mostly English, at public schools after low scores of English in this year’s national high school graduation examination.

Lack of effective policies hinders the development of the animal husbandry industry in Việt Nam, experts said.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc attended the groundbreaking ceremony of a 45-floor tower in Vinhomes Riva City urban area in the northern port city of Hải Phòng yesterday.

Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW), Cúc Phương National Park and Hà Nội Wildlife Rescue Centre (WRC) have successfully released 33 Sunda pangolins (Manis javanica) into the wild at an undisclosed secure site.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Intel Products launched a joint effort to restore habitats in the Láng Sen Wetland Reserve last week, with the goal of planting more than 12,000 native trees this year.

Ethnic minority children’s education has been improved by teaching in both their mother tongues and Vietnamese, research has showed.

The Director of the Planning Management Department under the Ministry of Planning and Investment, Vũ Quang Các, speaks to Tuổi trẻ (Youth) newspaper about the shortcomings of planning activities in Việt Nam

Up to 228 Vietnamese fishermen being held for illegal fishing in Indonesian waters were released yesterday and arrived safely in Vũng Tàu City in the southern coastal province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked for permission from the government to appoint investors for the Thủ Thiêm Bridge 4 project under the BT (build-transfer) model.

Ministry of Public Security yesterday issued an arrest warrant domestically and internationally to Trịnh Xuân Thanh, 50, former Chairman of PetroVietnam Construction Corporation (PVC).

Many projects need to be carried out in order to deal with flooding situation and traffic woes around Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport.

Hà Nội administration has decided to pave 936 streets with natural stone, reliability of up to 50-70 years, in 12 districts across the city.

HCM City is trying to help achieve the national goal of having 70 per cent of disabled children in school by 2020.

Trịnh Quốc Huy and his family own a five-hectare farm with various fruit plants of great renown across the country and local varieties. The farm, located in Việt Lâm Town, the northern mountainous Hà Giang Province’s Vị Xuyên District, has been developed following the garden-pond-livestock pen (VAC) model and earns Huy billions of đồng annually.

Piles of rubbish illegally dumped on streets and pavements have been seen along the Lừ River in capital city of Hà Nội.

 Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Trần Hồng Hà has requested the Environment General Department and local People’s Committee to determine the cause of the fish kill-off in central Thanh Hóa Province.