Việt Nam News

A tractor collided with a bridge’s handrail and fell into the sandbank on the Hương River in Huế City today, killing the driver.

The Vietnamese Consulate General in Fukuoka, Japan, is actively carrying out measures to support Vietnamese nationals affected by the recent back-to-back earthquakes in Kumamoto Prefecture and its surrounding areas.

More than 1,000 tourists who were stuck yesterday on Cù Lao Chàm Island in this central province were safely taken to the mainland this morning.

Environmental police in Hà Nội have seized 1.3 tonnes of food and additives whose origin is unknown and 10,000 packs of various kinds of candy.

Doctors called for better personal hygiene and nutrition among children to prevent and fight against hand-foot-mouth disease, especially during the period from March to May, which typically sees the biggest spread of the disease each year in Việt Nam.

A total of 83 traffic accidents have been reported nation-wide during the three-day holiday in commemoration of the Hùng kings, killing 63 people and injuring another 56, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.

Hà Nội could be hit by water shortages this summer because the Đà River water pipeline No.1 faced risk of re-breaking, while a second pipeline will not be finished by its scheduled deadline, according to city authorities.

Four out of 25 self-nominated candidates running for seats in the HCM City’s People’s Council for 2016 – 2021 were approved to the shortlist of 175 qualified candidates during the third consultative conference organised in HCM City on April 17.

Two young children and a teenager drowned in the Sơn Tịnh and Ba Tơ districts in the central province on Saturday.

The country will receive adequate power this summer, Đinh Thế Phúc, deputy head of Electricity Regulatory Authority of Việt Nam (ERAV) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, said.

A whirlwind swept across central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province on April 17, blowing the roofs off 50 houses.

Eleven workers were injured when a boiler exploded this morning at the Wood World Việt Nam JSC in Nam Cấm Industrial Park in Nghi Lộc District, Central Nghệ An Province.

HCM City Police on Thursday arrested four people involved in a tobacco-smuggling ring and confiscated 900 packages of contraband cigarettes.  

Health insurance will cover payments for HIV/AIDS patients at 18 hospitals and preventive health centres by December as international aid for free anti-retroviral medicine and treatment will stop in 2018.

Clean Up Việt Nam Day will be organised on Sunday throughout the country including HCM City, Hà Nội, Phú Quốc Island, and Hạ Long Bay.

Police and experts discussed reasons and measures to tackle criminal cases in HCM City in a forum held by the Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper on Thursday.

Most owners of land to be acquired for Long Thành Airport in Đồng Nai Province, 40km away from HCM City, want the airport to be completed at the earliest so that they can move out soon to new residential areas earmarked for them.

Dragon fruit growers should work together to ensure stable outlet for their products, said Director of Bình Thuận Province’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mai Kiều.