Việt Nam News

The Drug Crime Investigation Department under the Ministry of Public Security yesterday announced that they has seized about 2.5 tonnes of khat leaves, smuggled from Africa to Việt Nam for re-exporting to other countries.

The central city of Đà Nẵng officially decided to fine six Chinese nationals for the illegal operation of tourist services and violations of resident laws in the city with VNĐ20 million (about US$890) each.

Hà Nội police in co-ordination with police in the central Quảng Nam Province have arrested a group of people who set up fake websites to appropriate property.

The Fundamental Science and Society workshop opened this morning in the central Quy Nhơn City, with the participation of foreign Nobel laureates and local agencies working in the field.

The Ministry of Information and Communications has revoked the press card of Lê Trường Sơn, deputy-in-chief of Doanh nghiệp và Trang trại Việt Nam (Việt Nam Business and Farm) Magazine.

The government has approved an agreement on mutual visa exemption for diplomatic and official passport holders between Việt Nam and the Republic of Cyprus.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered a probe into allegations that the People’s Committee of Vĩnh Phong Commune in Hải Phòng City’s Vĩnh Bảo District has held the red books (home ownership certificates) of 150 households for 19 years.

The World Bank (WB) yesterday approved a US$150 million credit for the Improved Land Governance and Database project of Việt Nam.

Twenty three schools in HCM City will adopt an advanced model that meets international standards this academic year, according to the city Department of Education and Training.

Việt Nam has made significant progress in saving children’s lives, getting children into school and lifting people out of poverty, but this progress has been neither even nor fair, said the latest United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) annual flagship report launched yesterday in Hà Nội.

Việt Nam’s national action plan for prevention and control of hospital infections between 2016 and 2020 will focus on improving effectiveness at health facilities to ensure patient and staff safety.

The second phase of a bridge building programme, which aims at building nearly 4,000 bridges in remote areas, will be kicked off next month, said Nguyễn Văn Huyện, director of the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN).

Using information technology in agriculture is imperative for improving productivity and quality and reducing costs to bolster the sector’s competitiveness amid the country’s integration, a seminar heard in HCM City on Tuesday.

Management activities on inland waterway transport should be further enhanced to ensure traffic safety. This was main point in a recent instruction issued by the Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on strengthening measures for safe traffic and security on waterways.

The HCM City administration has received more than 13,000 complaints and suggestions since it set up a hotline three months ago.

A metal base transceiver station (BTS) atop a 10-storey building in Hà Nội’s Đống Đa District collapsed at noon today, killing one man.

Grasshoppers have consumed the leaves of some 800ha of crops and over 8,000ha of forest in the northern mountainous Sơn La Province’s Sốp Cộp District since mid-May.

Việt Nam's population density of 274 persons per square kilometre is 5.2 times higher than the world average , the Ministry of Health’s General Office of Population and Family Planning said.