Việt Nam News

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ, who is also head of the South West Steering Committee, yesterday (August 23) called on authorities in Mekong Delta provinces to do more to reduce poverty, especially among ethnic minorities.

The two foreign Vietjet pilots suspected of trafficking narcotics have been cleared of any suspicion, the carrier said in its latest press release.

Owners of illegal outdoor advertising billboards in Hà Nội have been asked to remove them by September 3, or the relevant authorities will take corrective action.

A plan to build an airport in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang was excluded from the list of prioritised investments due to concerns that it would be ineffective.

Students at some high schools and junior high schools in the northern province of Bắc Giang will study mathematics this year in both Vietnamese and English.

The Northern Airport Authority has refuted claims made on social networking sites yesterday that the information technology system of Nội Bài International Airport was hacked.

Hà Nội’s education and training department has launched hotline number 01695122753 to receive feedback and complaints about collection and expenditure of tuition fees and other school fees.

Transport companies and coach station operators in Hà Nội are preparing to meet the travelling demand that is expected to increase slightly during National Day on September 2.

The number of traffic accidents on the newly-built Hà Nội-Bắc Giang Expressway has increased, northern Bắc Giang Province People’s Committee announced, blaming a shortage of frontage roads for two-wheeled vehicles.

Health insurance funds for medical check-ups and treatment have been misused, becoming a “nightmare” with spending that exceeds State limits, a health official has told local media.

Ministry of Health officials are inspecting dengue fever prevention activities in the Khánh Hòa central province, one of 18 areas in the country hit by the epidemic.

The seawater off the four central provinces, which was earlier polluted by toxic wastewater released by a Taiwanese-owned steel company, is now mostly safe for swimming, water sports and aquaculture, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Trần Hồng Hà said today.

Coastguards in the southernmost Cà Mau Province’s Ngọc Hiển District saved six fishermen drifting in the sea off Rạch Gốc Town, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

Six workers of a gold mine in the northern Lào Cai Province have reportedly become the latest victims of typhoon Dianmu as their tent was swept away by floods.

One person was killed and seven seriously injured when a scaffolding collapsed even as workers were pouring concrete for constructing a house in Bình Định Province early today.

The late arrival of floods in the Mekong Delta provinces this year has been blamed on a major attack by rats on crops there.

Hải Phòng Port in northern Hải Phòng City is targeted to become the national-level seaport and the international gate of the north for an estimated goods of 109-114 million tonnes in and out and about 25,800 arrivals of foreign tourists by 2020.

Typhoon Dianmu has so far cost the lives of at least seven people and left another two missing after sweeping through northern Việt Nam over the weekend.