Việt Nam News

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a plan for solid waste management in key economic zones in the north until 2030.

Residents of Mù Cang Chải District in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai are enjoying better lives thanks to their special ethnic fruit called Sơn Tra.

Strong social dialogue, better working conditions and improved productivity will define economic progress in Việt Nam, as it enters a new era of global integration.

Every level crossing in the country will be inspected to ensure railway traffic safety and minimise accidents involving trains under a directive issued by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

Border guards in the central Thanh Hóa Province have arrested two Lao nationals for trying to smuggle 69 cakes of heroin across the border.

Hà Nội People’s Committee has banned the business operations of boats and floating houses on the West Lake.

A 37-year-old traffic inspector allegedly involved in the assault of a woman employee at Nội Bài International Airport last Tuesday will be relieved of his duties with effect from November.

Around 600 drug addicts escaped from a rehabilitation centre in Đồng Nai Province’s Xuân Lộc District late last night, and caused havoc on and around National Highway 1, blocking traffic, rioting and looting. More than 300 have returned the centre this morning.

Trucks that weigh over 50 tonnes and coaches with more than 25 seats are banned from entering several streets in Hà Nội as three regional summits take place here on October 24-26.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình has urged forces to investigate the shooting that killed three forest protection staffers in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highland) province of Đắk Nông yesterday morning.

Five people were killed and two injured this morning when their car collided with a train while crossing a railway track on a major highway in a Hà Nội district.

The Prime Minister will allocate VNĐ260 billion (US$11.7 million) from the central budget’s reserve to assist 12 northern localities seriously affected by storms earlier this year.

All fish sauces on the market are safe for human consumption, the Ministry of Health confirmed Saturday after a10-day inspection.

The Consulate General of Japan in HCM City signed an agreement on Friday to provide aid worth more than US$405,500 for five projects in southern Việt Nam. The agreement is part of the Japanese Government’s non-refundable aid programme for Vietnamese localities. 

HCM City’s Health Department said it launched 15 more points for screening and detecting Zika virus infections in an effort to stem the number of cases. 

HCM City has begun the second phase of an environmental sanitation project at a cost of more than US$524 million, city authorities announced. Under the project, sewer networks and connections to houses will be built in parts of District 2.

Northern Việt Nam’s Hà Giang province has a 274km border with China, thus is particularly vulnerable to human trafficking.

The southeastern province of Bình Phước, the country’s largest cashew producer, plans to intercrop cocoa with a total of 50,000 ha of cashew trees in an aim to raise farmers’ incomes.