Hà Nội University of Science and Technology (HUST) will have the right to use tuition as well as funds from enterprises and the government without asking permission from the Ministry of Education and Training after its pilot project on university autonomy was approved by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.
The Hà Nội People’s Court yesterday sentenced Vũ Thanh Hưng, 31, residing in the central province of Hà Tĩnh, to nine months' imprisonment for transporting banned goods.
A 25-year-old man in Hà Nội was taken into custody and legal proceedings were initiated for assaulting a policeman who tried to stop him after he violated traffic rules.
Customs officials on Wednesday seized a tonne of ivory smuggled from Mumbasa Port, Kenya, worth VNĐ40 billion (US$1.8 million), at Cát Lái Port in HCM City.
Over 7,000 vehicles across the country were penalised in the first nine months of this year for speeding, Nguyễn Văn Huyện, director of the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam, said.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved in principle a plan that would give HCM City greater autonomy in several areas including fiscal management, legislation and organisation of civil service examinations.
For over a decade the pace of tourism development in HCM City has been rather slow due to limited products in terms of places of interest and cultural and entertainment activities for tourists.
Girls who get married before 18 years old are much more likely to drop out of school and face a much higher risk of family violence, experts warned in a seminar on child marriage prevention.
Uncovered manholes are the latest threat to pedestrians in Viet Nam, with the hazard claiming at least two deaths in southern Bình Dương Province and HCM City in the last two weeks.
Journalists must be cautious when writing about sensitive issues such as human rights, HoàngVĩnh Bảo, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications said today at a conference in Hà Nội.
Doctors at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City’s District 3 have successfully performed an endovascular intervention on a 57-year-old man with a hepatic artery aneurysm, a rare condition.
Surveillance cameras and speed monitoring devices installed along Nội Bài-Lào Cai Expressway will start recording violations on November 3, the transport police department has said.
One person was killed and four others injured in a road accident on National Highway 1A in Lạng Sơn Province on Wednesday, after a container crashed into a truck.
The Hà Nội Traffic Police yesterday discovered a coach illegally transporting wood on Phan Trọng Tuệ Road in Thanh Trì District.
The cooperation between public and private hospitals in easing hospital overcrowding has been considered an effective model, however, according to hospital representatives, the biggest hindrance to develop public-private partnerships (PPP) in the health sector is hospital fees.
Three Vietnamese fishermen held hostage by Somali pirates have returned home after more than four years living in miserable conditions abroad due to the abduction.
Trần Ngọc Thành, who was appointed chairman of Việt Nam Railways Corporation (VNR) in April 2015, has submitted his resignation to the Ministry of Transport (MoT).
To ensure traffic order and safety, HCM City’s Department of Transport has decided to ban private buses with more than 25 seats on some streets in District 10 including Lê Hồng Phong, Vĩnh Viễn and Trần Nhân Tôn from 6am to 10pm, starting October 29.
Motorists may have to start paying toll from November 6 to use the newly completed bypass road in Phủ Lý City, in northern Hà Nam Province.
A secondary school teacher in the central province of Thừa Thiên - Huế was forced to resign as class teacher today after he admitted to badly beating six of his students with a ruler.
