Việt Nam News

Japanese consultants have recommended that Da Nang deploys the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model for the first stage of expanding the Liên Chiểu Port, expected to cost VNĐ5.58 trillion (US$247 million).

The National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) collected more than 9,300 units of blood from donors on Saturday in Hà Nội.

HCM City authorities plan to relocate some of the city’s wholesale and retail markets to ease traffic congestion and ensure safety for residents.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the Ministry of Construction to clarify six problems which are of great public concern.

Led by high-tech methods, the VietGAP-compliant shrimp farming project is bringing previously unseen wealth to the southernmost province of Cà Mau.

All the land needed to develop the Thủ Thiêm urban area in HCM City’s District 2 must be acquired this year, People’s Committee Chairman Nguyễn Thành Phong has told the project management board.

Farmers in the nation’s most advanced province in hi-tech agricultural production have a limited understanding what it actually means, experts say.

RSS Endurance of the Singaporean Navy, with 180 crew members aboard, led by Major Lee Kwok So, anchored in Cam Ranh port in the south central province of Khánh Hòa yesterday, beginning a five-day visit to Vietnam.

Experts have expressed alarm over the nation’s poor management of invasive and harmful alien species after two cases were widely reported by the media this month.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday said he was always open to hearing ideas on nation-building from any scientist.

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến yesterday instructed the preventive health sector to focus on effective prevention and control of both contagious and non-communicable diseases such as cancers on her working visit to the HCMC Pasteur Institute.

President Trần Đại Quang has encouraged HCM City delegates to the National Assembly to listen carefully to citizen feedback and to “continue the practice” of proposing policies that would help the city, even if some of them do not receive immediate approval.  

A 30-month-old child with meningococcal meningitis died on Monday, prompting health officials to take preventive measures against the spread of the disease.

Pinkeye cases have been occurring nationwide in a scattered manner, but they are tending to increase and can spread rapidly if preventive measures are not taken, health experts warn.

The Ministry of Transport’s Project Management Unit No. 7 has finished an investment report on the proposed cable-stayed Rạch Miễu Bridge No 2 over the Tiền River in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta.

The Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No 3 in Vũng Tàu City on Friday assigned a ship and some doctors to rush to the scene and provide first aid to 11 seamen who had met with an accident at sea.

Cần Thơ City on Thursday announced it busted a football gambling ring operating on a large scale on the internet.

Doctors from Bạch Mai Hospital in Hà Nội have reported at least one patient everyday hospitalised due to herbicide poisoning, popularly known as paraquat poisoning.