Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ yesterday said poverty reduction policies should not be too excessive because that would eliminate people’s motivation to improve their lives. Instead, these policies should build up people’s will, he said.
The HCM City People’s Court on Monday began a two-day court of appeals session, reviewing the trial of a gang that murdered six members of a family in Bình Phước Province.
Police of Hà Nội’s Hoàng Mai District have discovered six sacks containing dozens of elephant tusks in a raid on a house, owned by Phan Trọng Kiên, in Hoàng Liệt Commune.
Dr. Osama Hamdy, a leading expert in diabetes and obesity, has recommended that people with diabetes should have a nutrition plan that can be customized to fit their culture and lifestyle, as that could significantly improve their health.
A photo contest entitled “Our Water, Our Life” was launched in Hà Nội last Friday to enhance public awareness of water security and climate change in Việt Nam and around the world.
The 27th International Biology Olympiad (IBO 2016) kicked off yesterday at the Hanoi National University of Education in the presence of IBO President Dr. Poonpipope Kasemsap.
The Government has made efforts to improve the management of public assets but the task is made difficult by its massive scale and deficient database.
The southern province of Đồng Nai has asked the Government to extend a HCM City metro route and expansion of several expressways to enhance transport connections in the southern economic zone.
Poor electrical wiring is considered the most common cause of fire in every household, office, plant and trade complex, the city fire chief warned during a meeting with media on Friday.
Motorbikes’ exhaust fumes will be inspected, initially in five big cities, if a newly-proposed plan by the Ministry of Transport is approved.
Additional legal framework is needed to speed up the restructuring of State-owned plantations in Việt Nam, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hà Công Tuấn said at a conference on Thursday.
Human trafficking is serious, complicated, and has been reported in all 63 provinces and cities across the country, said major-general Nguyễn Phong Hòa, deputy director of the General Department of Police under the Ministry of Public Security, at a conference in Hà Nội on Thursday.
The People’s Committee of the central province of Bình Phước yesterday declared diphtheria an epidemic after three people died and 47 others were hospitalised to be treated for the bacterial infection.
City officials at a workshop on Friday in HCM City urged passage of a new regulation that would separate the sale of food additives and industrial chemicals within shops to prevent the sale of fraudulent or banned substances.
The Ministry of Health plans to expand the family doctor model to 80 per cent of provinces and cities nationwide by 2020, participants heard at an online conference yesterday.
The US hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) and the Japanese Navy ship of Japan Maritime Self Defence Force, JSDS Shimokita (LST-4002), and the Việt Nam People's Navy ship Khánh Hòa docked at the central city’s Tiên Sa Port to begin Pacific Partnership 2016 (PP16).
Police from northern city of Hải Phòng said three people had died and a person was badly injured in two car accidents in the locality.
Fish have died en masse in farming cages in the central Thừa Thiên Huế Province, causing distress to farmers who fear they have lost all the money they invested.
Construction workers are moving an 800-tonne building 40 metres from its original location in the central Nghệ An Province.
A methane explosion on a ship in northern Hải Phòng City injured six workers this morning.
