Việt Nam News

Two taskforces which specialise in hunting robbers will be founded in Hà Nội and HCM City as proposal of representatives at a conference of the Ministry of Public Security held in Hà Nội yesterday.

The construction of the Cửa Hội Bridge that crosses the Lam River has begun in central Nghệ An Province’s Cửa Lò Town.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc spoke yesterday about the critical role that the Mekong Delta plays in national development as well as the enormous challenges it faces, particularly in adapting to climate change and ensuring sustainable livelihoods for its residents. 

 Hà Nội’s authorities plan to encourage the use of public transport and limit individual vehicles, moving towards eliminating private means of transport by 2025.

Four members of a family including two children died in a fire early this morning in the southern province of Đồng Nai.

Toll booths across the country that force drivers to suffer through long delays will face fines starting August 1. The fines are called for in a new decree, number 46/2016/NĐ-CP, specifying administrative fines on roads and railways and issued by the Government last month.

Experts from the United States’ Mayo Clinic will help the Saint Paul General Hospital apply stem cell transplantation in trauma-orthopedic treatment and train its human resources to handle such applications.

A cargo boat carrying 25 tonnes of aquarium fish feed hit the stern of a ship early yesterday morning on the Hậu River and sank soon after.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc kicked off the largest scale and most expensive anti-flooding construction project ever planned for HCM City yesterday, the latest effort by authorities to deal with chronic flooding problems.

As the nation joins the CASA 8983 and Sukhoi Su-30MKI crew’s loved ones, colleagues and relatives, in their grief, VNS pays its tribute as a reflection on the extraordinary deeds performed by ordinary people.

The bodies of two missing fishermen from a boat explosion offshore from the southwestern province of Kiên Giang were found yesterday, a representative of Zone 4’s Marine Police High Command said. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has decided to extend the rice support for fishermen affected by mass fish deaths in four central provinces.

Three people went missing on Saturday while collecting durians on Đại Ninh hydropower reservoir in Đức Trọng District of Central Highlands Province of Lâm Đồng.

The new Ghềnh Bridge spanning Đồng Nai River in the southern province of Đồng Nai opened to traffic on Saturday, more than three months after the collapse of the old bridge.

Hospital infection control and prevention is a major challenge facing Việt Nam’s health sector due to its important role in providing successful treatment to patients. However, many hospitals and health clinics do not pay enough attention to it, participants at a conference said yesterday.

Search and rescue forces of the Ministry of National Defense have found two black boxes from the CASA-212 aircraft coded 8983 at the depth of nearly 60 metres underwater, 26 nautical miles from Bạch Long Vỹ island area off Hải Phòng City.

Đào Xuân Hoàng, a Vietnamese entrepreneur, won first prize for an education application at the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Tech-I competition held in Silicon Valley yesterday.

Four crew members were seriously injured and three fishermen remain missing after an explosion occurred on a fishing boat offshore the southwestern province of Kiên Giang.