Việt Nam News

The public security ministry’s police investigation agency has decided to prosecute two former top officials of the HCM City-based Đông Á Bank (DongA Bank), it announced today.

The construction of Provincial Road 537 was completed just recently, but the section passing through Yên Thành District’s Hợp Thành Commune has already developed huge cracks and started caving in.

Five new inner-city bus routes with subsidised fares were launched on Saturday in Đà Nẵng.

Rescue forces have been seeking four fishermen missing from a fishing boat that sank off the coast of Quảng Ngãi Province during the incessant rainfall of the past week.

Thousands of people participated in the Hà Nội Run for Children 2016 in Thống Nhât Park yesterday to raise funds for the treatment of disadvantaged children with cancer and congenital heart diseases. 

The latest advances in the field of aesthetic surgery and medicine are being discussed at the 14^th annual international scientific congress of the HCM City Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, which closed on Friday.

A pilot programme in HCM City that uses technology to control and trace the origin of pork will begin from December 16 instead of December 10 as planned earlier.

The Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality has warned consumers not to buy polymer “crystal balls,” saying it is a toy that could be harmful for children.

A 64-year-old woman from District 12, who suffered from obstruction of the flow of urine, is one of the first ten adult patients benefiting from robotic surgery at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City’s District 3.

Fish bred in cages in a lagoon near the ocean in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province died en masse for still unknown reasons beginning Thursday last week.

The central city of Đà Nẵng and the American Half the Sky Foundation have started construction of a care centre and kindergarten for needy children to be completed by 2019.

The country’s medical facilities are using the latest procedures to treat cardio-vascular diseases, according to the Việt Nam Heart Institute in Hà Nội.

The HCM Public Passenger Transport and Management Centre has said 1,048 more trips will be operated on 17 city bus routes between December 31 and January 2 to cope with the New Year rush.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on Thursday in HCM City met with representatives from the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism to discuss the decline in the volume of sediment in Việt Nam’s rivers

The central coast city’s plan to get rid of 1,100 small vessels (under 20CV) engaged in small-scale and near-shore fishing has sparked anxiety among fishermen whose sole means of livelihood is threatened.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked permission from Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc to hire an investor for the elevated road No. 1 project.

More than 150 local and foreign scholars and researchers met at an international workshop in HCM City on Wednesday (Dec 7) to discuss enforcement of intellectual property laws in relation to new trade agreements.