Việt Nam News

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the People’s Committee of Hải Dương Province to clarify the responsibilities of individual or organisation related to the case that there are 44 managers in its Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Department.

A blaze occurred at 10 am this morning destroyed some 800sq.m. of a workshop storing wood and power cables of a company in Hà Nội’s Ngọc Hồi Industrial Zone.

A fishing boat with a crew of 10 fishermen on board was rescued from the waters of Phú Quốc yesterday.

The central city of Đà Nẵng plans to build the first public underground car park project in the city's downtown on an area of 4,000sq.m with total investment of VNĐ195 billion (US$8.7 million) in 2016-18.

Population policies should change from focusing on population and family planning to focusing on population and development, said Associate Professor Nguyễn Đình Cử, former director of the Institute of Population and Social Studies, at a conference yesterday in Hà Nội.

Newly manufactured assembled and imported cars are obliged to meet European exhaust emission level 4 standards (Euro 4) from January 1, 2017 in order to be eligible to register in Việt Nam. But with just a month to go, many drivers are still not aware of this standard.

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Việt Nam is hoping to boost its renewable energy production, especially wind and solar energy, to more than 10.7 per cent of total generation by 2030, up from the previously planned 6 per cent.

The Việt Nam Mennonite Church commenced its third general conference in HCM City yesterday with the participation of nearly 300 delegates from 24 provinces and cities. 

Torrential rainfall measuring 100-200mm in Quảng Ngãi and Bình Định provinces has flooded nearly 1,000 houses and over 3,000ha of sowed rice and raised river levels.

Two officials were dismissed from their positions and three others were disciplined with a warning after a karaoke bar fire broke out in Hà Nội’s Cầu Giấy District.

A 500-tonne barge sank on Đồng Nai river this morning, spilling at least 100 litres of oil, Trịnh Tuấn Liêm, director of Đồng Nai Province’s transport department, confirmed the incident to Người Lao Động (the Labourer) newspaper.

Traffic accidents killed 7,907 people and injured 17,184 others between December 16, 2015 and November 15, 2016.

The central Nghệ An Province has decided to remove tower cranes that don’t have licences or operate outside of specified construction sites, in order to improve safety levels.

Vĩnh Phúc Province People’s Court yesterday sentenced to prison eight former local officials at the first instance hearing. The accused, former officials of Vĩnh Yên City, were sentenced for abusing their position and power while doing public duty.

Only expired automobile driving licences made from paper are required to change into those made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) material.

Four people, including a two-year-old girl, were stabbed to death in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang on Thursday morning.

Five fishermen fell into the sea following a gas explosion on a fishing vessel off Bình Định Province, the provincial Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, Search and Rescue has said.