Việt Nam News

 Police yesterday arrested a suspect in a robbery at a branch of the Bank for Investment and Development of Việt Nam (BIDV) in Huế City earlier this month.

Thirty-nine agricultural products and 40 outstanding companies were honoured at a programme displaying high quality agricultural products by the Việt Nam General Council of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The chief inspector of the southern province of Bình Dương’s Agriculture and Rural Development Department, Phạm Minh Thái, was killed in a car accident yesterday.

Police in the central province of Thanh Hóa have arrested and charged a man for posting more than 700 video clips since October 2015 on social networks, saying the videos distort and blacken State and Government leaders.

Soldiers from Military Zone 5’s Artillery Brigade join a school clean-up in Hoài Ân District in central Bình Định Province so that students can return to school after recent flooding.

The HCM City People’s Committee has approved construction of embankments at 28 outlying locations to prevent erosion of river and canal banks.

Enhancing education on global ethics for women and young people is an essential task to ensure world peace, especially as the world faces increased uncertainty, a conference heard on Saturday.

Thành Nguyễn hair salon on Phạm Hồng Thái street, from the outside, looks to be your fairly run-of-the-mill establishment. But once you venture inside, it’s hard not to notice a strange silence quite unbefitting usually chatty and busy hair salon, save for the familiar sounds of metal-against-metal sounds of scissors or occasional blow-dryer’s white noise

A technique for freezing to preserve red blood cells with glycerol at -80 degree Celsius for 10 years and a milk with high protein which is the first product made by a Vietnamese nutritionist are two of the outstanding scientific research works awarded the KOVA Prize in the category of Creative Ideas for Applied Science last Saturday (December 17).

Việt Nam’s fertility rate has declined from 6.4 to 2.1 children per woman over the last 55 years, but the rate varies widely among provinces, according to the General Department of Population and Family Planning.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has instructed ministries and agencies to mobilise all forces and resources to ensure safety and food for residents in flood-hit areas and minimise losses of human lives and property.

Chợ Rẫy Hospital and Vạn Khang SOS Company yesterday (December 16) signed an agreement for developing a home-based healthcare service and emergency aid system outside hospitals.

The 2015 Migration Survey provides critical data for the government to create and manage sound evidence-based policies and plans to address the current and future needs of migrants.

Saving energy and using it efficiently and economically should be the national goal in the coming years, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng said yesterday.

KON TUM – A highly prized Vietnamese species, indigenous to the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, is threatened with extinction, and the Government is gearing up to reverse its decline.

The central city’s People’s Committee has asked two joint-stock steel companies – Dana Ý and Dana Úc – to stop production of two factories in Liên Chiểu and Hòa Vang districts, due to the serious pollution they continued to cause.

The Hà Nội People’s High Court started hearing an appeal yesterday on a high-profile corruption and economic mismanagement case at the State-owned Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) which resulted in the loss of over VNĐ2.425 trillion (US$106.6 million).

Natural disasters have cost the northern province of Cà Mau VNĐ1.427 trillion (US$63 million) this year, the provincial People’s Committee said.