Việt Nam News

 ​​​Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a plan to meet regulations in the annexes of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL Convention).

The issuance of electronic tag cards to vehicles for automatic toll collection on highways is under way as the Ministry of Transport sets up electronic toll collection systems (ETCs).

The Australian State of Victoria’s Minister of Training and Skills, Steve Herbert yesterday opened a Centre of Digital Excellence (CODE) at RMIT Vietnam in HCM City.

Việt Nam will be an important 'highway' to transport goods from ASEAN countries to Kazakhstan and European countries.

Hà Nội health authorities have taken precautions to prevent epidemics and diseases that frequently occur in the period over spring and summer during the hot weather.

District-level hospitals in HCM City are now using more advanced techniques and treatment, often performing at a level that matches city-level hospitals.  

ASEAN labour ministers and their counterparts from China, Japan and the Republic of Korea (RoK) agreed to strengthen co-operation in the fields within their remit during a meeting in Vientiane, Laos, yesterday.

 Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình on Sunday launched construction on Hà Nội’s inland clearance depot, which will be the largest one in the capital.

Repair works began on Sunday to fix the defects on Nguyễn Huệ Street in HCM City, a crowded pedestrian street for both locals and tourists to the city.

Three people in the south-central province of Phú Yên were killed, when a mortar shell they attempted to cut open to extract gun powder and scrap exploded, on Saturday afternoon.

Vietnamese students have won four third prizes at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF 2016).

The two largest private abattoirs in HCM City, which supply thousands of pigs to the market everyday, will be closed down on June 30. All substandard private abattoirs will also be closed by the end of next year, the municipal People’s Committee said.

The health ministry has called for increased efforts to provide effective and safe vaccines under the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) to all children in the country.

Food service enterprises must apply for food safety and hygiene permits, but many enterprises complain it is too hard to get permits due to complicated procedures.

An exhibition of photos, reportage and documentary films about the ASEAN Community has been showcased in northern Quảng Ninh Province’s Hạ Long City since last Saturday. The show ends tomorrow.

A park named after the late lagendary General Võ Nguyên Giáp was inaugurated after two months of construction on Sơn Ca Island in the Trường Sa (Spratly) district of the central province of Khánh Hòa yesterday.

Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Phạm Công Tạc said that sufficient scientific evidence has been collected to conclude the cause of unusual fish deaths that occurred in the central coastal region in early April, which will be announced soon.

The Transport Ministry asked highway investors to take urgent measures to deal with cracks and subsidence found on National Highway 1, which runs from Phan Thiết City in central Bình Thuận Province to Đồng Nai Province. The ministry said contractors will not be allowed to collect toll fees if repairs are not completed before May 20.