Five Vietnamese scientists have been recognised as among the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds in a list compiled by the multinational media and information firm Thomson Reuters.
Authorities in central Quảng Bình Province have ordered an investigation to trace the origin of timber stored illegally in a public agency’s warehouse.
Authorities in Quảng Ninh Province on Monday announced a domestic investor partnership to build a US$622million expressway, after rejecting a proposal to borrow money from China for the project.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has suggested the Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng further promote tourism development and agricultural restructuring, and study to produce high-value products, towards becoming a medium-income locality in the region.
A total of 11 seamen from the distressed fishing ship BD99047 TS were rescued and brought safely to Phú Quý Island in the southern province of Bình Thuận yesterday afternoon.
The battery charging room of the Cẩm Phả Thermo-electricity Plant in Cẩm Phả City in the northern province of Quảng Ninh caught fire at 6am today.
Comprehensive policies, particularly those for disadvantaged areas and those vulnerable to impacts of climate change, are the core of the Government’s programme to build new-style rural areas during the period of 2016 to 2020.
HCM City plans to allocate more than VNĐ1 trillion (US$45 million) to curb air pollution at the Đa Phước Waste Treatment Complex and Đa Phước Cemetery in outlying Binh Chánh district.
The HCM City Preventive Health Centre has been instructed to co-operate with five hospitals to set up procedures for testing, diagnoses, admission and treatment for patients, especially pregnant women infected with the Zika virus, as the number of Zika cases has increased.
The ‘May 19’ Transport Co-operative on Sunday launched 50 new buses to run on its Eastern Coach Station - Hóc Môn route in HCM City.
IFProfs Việt Nam, a professional social network for French-language teachers and professionals, has been launched by the French consulate in HCM City and the French Institute in Việt Nam.
The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN) has asked the Ministry of Transport for permission to test cashless toll collection on one-stop toll highways.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday sent condolences to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi over the loss of lives in the derailment of a train in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh state.
The HCM City Department of Transport will designate nine pick-up and drop-off points early next year for buses plying eastward in an effort to root out illegal bus stations and unlicensed transport firms.
The central province of Hà Tĩnh has called for 30,000 vials of vaccine to prevent the spread of blue ear disease among pigs, which broke out a month ago.
Việt Nam always respects and would like to strengthen and expand ties with Singapore, the HCM City People’s Committee chairman Nguyễn Thành Phong told visiting Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long.
A total of 85 outstanding young people from throughout the country will receive the Lương Định Của Award at a special ceremony in Hà Nội this Saturday.
Challenges facing the modern media and how to cope with them were the focus of discussion at the November 18 discussion at the 16th General Assembly of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Eighteen fishermen from Quỳnh Lưu District in the central province of Nghệ An were rescued on Sunday, 24 hours after their trawler’s engine failed and it went adrift at sea, said the province’s Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention, Search and Rescue.
Fifty newspapers were slapped with a total penalty of around VNĐ1 billion (US$44,400) on Monday for “wrongful reports” on the effects of consuming fish sauce made in the country.
