Việt Nam News

Internet connectivity will slow down in the coming days as the AAG cable connecting South East Asia and the United States has broken again, Viettel and VNPT said today.

The HCM City People’s Committee today decided to implement a VNĐ67.86-billion (US$3 million) project for giving vocational training to ethnic minorities in the 2016-20 period.

The development of the family doctor model will go together with the health system at the grassroots level, which is one of the targets of the family doctor model expansion plan in Việt Nam in the 2016-20 period.

Police in the northern province of Phú Thọ are investigating allegations that a private company has been transporting sulfur through residential areas without proper licensing and conditions.

The Ministry of Health will not increase hospital fees on August 1 as scheduled because of apprehensions about its inflationary effect.

The Việt Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism asked domestic travel agents to manage tours to Russia better as Vietnamese citizens have recently been refused entry into Russia.

The National Wage Council (NWC) yesterday managed to nail down a 7.3 per cent increase to the minimum wage in 2017.

Hà Nội’s transportation system will get a major facelift by 2030 with a total of 18 bridges across Hồng River and eight city railway routes, according to a new master transport plan unveiled by the city authority on Saturday.

The Việt Nam Tourism Education Association (VITEA) was launched on Monday in HCM City with a mission to enhance the quality of human resources in the tourism sector.

Nguyễn Thị Nữ, a former student at HCM City Foreign Trade University, and her friends have been collecting books for the last three years as part of the Tủ Sách Ước Mơ programme for children in rural areas.

Advanced medical techniques in cardiovascular surgery and interventions have been successfully transferred to provincial hospitals, saving the lives of hundreds of patients every year, doctors have said. 

The northern Lạng Sơn Province’s People’s Court has handed down two death penalties, two life sentences and 20 years’ imprisonment to a gang of drug traffickers.

The Cần Thơ police have busted a gang of seven burglars who allegedly stole VNĐ10 billion (US$450,000) from six jewellery shops in the Mekong Delta since last year.

The Hà Nội Department of Fire Prevention and Control has released a list of 38 apartment buildings that are in use but do not meet fire safety regulations.

The strike by hundreds of workers of a hospital over unpaid salaries in the central Nghệ An Province entered its third day today.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAA) has slammed a VNĐ$1.16-trillion (US$52.2 million) proposal to install bird detection systems in airports, saying the payback plan was “unreasonable”.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc required the Cabinet members as well as ministries and agencies of the 2016-21 tenure to swiftly roll out their working plans to support the Government in designing and spurring growths in service of people.

A shortage of funds has prevented many provinces and cities from achieving of helping disadvantaged people in areas with high birth rates access reproductive health and family planning services.