Việt Nam News

Construction of the Hải Dương-Việt Nam thermo power plant officially kicked off yesterday in Hải Dương Province’s Phúc Thành Commune after a five-year delay.

HCM City authorities say that it may be difficult to reach the goal of 1 million bus passengers a day by 2020, the target set by the city in its master plan.  

More than 200 doctors and experts specialised in cancer treatment participated in a scientific conference on Saturday in Hà Nội to update new methods to treat breast cancer.

Despite HCM City’s dense network of rivers and canals, waterway tourism has not matched its potential, thus failing the city’s expectations it would become the main tourism product by 2020.

The Cửa Đại bridge spanning the Thu Bồn River and a coastal road in the central province of Quảng Nam was put into service on March27 in the presence of National Assembly Chairman Nguyễn Sinh Hùng.

Quảng Trị Province has taken numerous measures to prevent the spread of the Zika virus along the border with Laos, where a case was recently discovered.

HCM City kicks off a project to renovate the 130-year-old municipal People’s Court building

No Vietnamese citizens were among victims at the recent bomb attacks in Brussels, Belgium, announced the Foreign Ministry

A career day will be held by the HCM City University of Technology on April 9 at the university’s campus in Bình Thạnh District.

The southern province of Bình Phước has lost around VNĐ0.5 trillion (US$22.3 million) in the recent drought season, according to the provincial People’s Committee.

The Electricity Generation Corporation No.1 under the Việt Nam Electricity announced that the corporation would provide electricity throughout the year with total estimated output of more than 26 billion kWh.

The Ministry of Information and Communications’ Journalist Department yesterday ordered Hà Nội’s Police Department to quickly identify three suspects who attacked journalist Đỗ Doãn Hoàng from the Lao Động (Labour) newspaper on Wednesday morning.

Prolonged drought and salinisation are posing a serious threat to Việt Nam achieving this year’s economic growth target

Farmers’ groups in Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông help to raise incomes of ethnic minorities in poor region.

HÀ NỘI — A ceremony was held yesterday to mark the 85th founding anniversary of the Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYUCC).

The Pasteur Institute of HCM City will co-ordinate with the Health Departments of Lâm Đồng Province and HCM City for suspected Zika virus cases from March 28 to April 8.

 Deputy Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered strict punishment for violations affecting road safety along the Nội Bài-Lào Cai Expressway.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyễn Vinh Hiển yesterday asked educational department leaders in southern provinces to help rectors of schools to begin a new management policy as soon as possible.