Việt Nam News

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a special mechanism for completion of Hà Nội’s Cát Linh-Hà Đông urban railway project in an effort to overcome numerous delays and cost overruns.

Three traffic inspection officials in Cần Thơ City were arrested yesterday for accepting bribes totalling VNĐ3.5 billion (US$159,000) from various drivers who regularly travel to the city for business.  

Police in the northern mountain province of Hòa Bình yesterday arrested two local men smuggling 30 cakes of heroin from Laos. Each cake of heroin weighs about 350 gram.

The education and training ministry said more than 15,200 classrooms for pre-school children across the country failed to meet national standards last year.

HCM City police yesterday charged former vice director of the HCM City branch of PetroVietnam Finance Investment Joint Stock Company (PVFI) Vũ Thị Hồng Lan with abuse of power.

An 800-tonne building has been moved 35m from its original position in the central Nghệ An Province.

An electronic health information system (eHIS) aims to help people living with HIV/AIDS get more benefits from social health insurance.

Southeast Asian universities for the first time have a common quality assessment system at institutional level, under which Hà Nội University of Science will be the first being assessed, an organisation responsible for higher education in ASEAN countries has announced.

As the 2016 rainy season in the north begins, thousands of Hanoians are traveling on temporary bridges that have stood for a long time.

After receiving dialysis treatment yesterday (July 20) at Bình Chiểu Ward Health Centre, a 32-year-old patient said he was relieved that he no longer had to visit a district hospital in HCM City.

Hà Nội’s Department of Tourism will ramp up surveillance of travel agencies and tour guides in the capital city to ensure a healthy and safe environment for tourists.

Health Minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến yesterday said that any healthcare provider would be rejected from their work if they broke the code of ethnics and damaged the image of Vietnamese doctors.

A team comprising the city’s tourism inspection and immigration police force found five Chinese nationals illegally operating tourist and accounting services in Sơn Trà District’s Nature Love Company Ltd.

A fire destroyed dozens of booths in a market in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai’s K’bang District yesterday, causing damage worth billions of đồng.

A US$300,000 agreement has been signed for improving the hygiene and sanitary conditions of 15,000 women and girls in 7,500 poor and near-poor households in Việt Nam.

Việt Đức Hospital this morning suspended all members of the surgical team that operated on the right leg of a 37-year-old male patient, instead of his left leg yesterday afternoon.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) and the Asia Foundation in Việt Nam yesterday held a workshop in Hà Nội to launch a project on protecting the legitimate rights of Vietnamese guest workers.

The HCM City People’s Court has rejected appeals by two gang killers found guilty of a massacre that shocked the country last year.