Việt Nam News

The People’s Committee of Gia Lai Province on Tuesday asked local authorities to investigate and prosecute lumberjacks operating in the northeast Chư Păh forest region.

Australian tourist Stephen John Scott, whose body was found in the waters of Hạ Long Bay on Monday, committed suicide, the Quảng Ninh police said.

HCM City will put up more road signs written in English to serve foreign tourists, an official of the city’s Department of Transport said on Monday.

Thousands of automotive parts and accessories were confiscated by the Hà Nội police from two gangs of thieves near the Hòa Bình (Giời) market in the capital city, the police said on Tuesday.

Since July 2, 2017, birth certificates, health insurance cards and residence papers of newborns in southern coastal Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province are being delivered right to their homes.

Police in northern Thanh Hóa Province on Tuesday said they had arrested a local for attempting to take a group of residents to China to work illegally.

Fines of some VNĐ1 billion (US$44,200) will be imposed on five production units that polluted a river branch in the capital city’s Hà Đông District, the city’s People’s Committee said.

About 1.14 million hectare of rice are to be planted in the northern provinces in the 2016-17 winter-spring crop, down 18,000 hectare compared to the 2015-16  winter-spring crop, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has directed authorities to find the assets of suspects in corruption cases in order to prevent them from being hidden and to help in executing judgments against the accused.

Doctors at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City have successfully performed the country’s first living paired-kidney exchange transplant.

Abrupt weather changes this year have triggered several disease outbreaks, according to health experts.

Only 62 per cent of the 240,000 watercraft operating in the country are registered and quality verified, the Việt Nam Register Agency has reported.

Seventeen former leaders of Mekong Housing Bank (MHB) and Mekong Housing Bank Securities Company (MHBS) including former chairman of the bank’s management board Huỳnh Nam Dũng will be prosecuted for abusing power and irresponsibility that causes serious consequences.

Installing speed bumps and increasing the number of guards at rail crossings are among measures proposed at a meeting held on Monday to find ways to reduce the number of railway accidents.

The National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health under the Health Ministry has conducted a health examination on Vietnamese people who are highly exposed to lead.

Chunks of bark were found to have been carved out of 40 xà cừ trees on Láng Road in Hà Nội’s Đống Đa District on Tuesday.

The chairman of central Bình Định Province’s People’s Committee has approved construction of some 670 houses for citizens in areas affected by the major floods that occurred last year.

Coach operators who are not following changes in the bus routes as instructed by the Hà Nội’s transport authority would be forced to halt operations for a month.