Việt Nam News

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has underlined the need to identify the responsibilities of agencies concerned with food safety management, especially the role played by their chiefs.

A 12-month project to improve the governance of immunisation programme for children aged 0-23 months in Việt Nam was launched at a workshop today in Hà Nội.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc today chaired the new government’s first national meeting to tackle the heated food safety issue.

Representatives of ten Vietnamese universities and institutions in agriculture and forestry and their Australian counterparts, discussed, yesterday and today, expertise and excellence in agribusiness, education and research in Hà Nội.

Mỹ Tho - the first city in the Mekong River Delta - is recognised to meet the standards of a first-grade urban area, including standards based on population scale, population density, labour rate in non-agricultural sector, infrastructure and scenery.

Hà Nội’s environment police in co-ordination with the market management department seized 3.7 tonnes of frozen meat of unknown origin at a foodstuff shop in Thanh Trì District yesterday.

The Ministry of Health has warned that insecticide-resistant mosquitoes have appeared in the country and are liable to spread.

Central Khánh Hòa Province People’s Committee will halt cultivation of the summer-autumn rice crop on 2,000ha in the province to spare water for daily use.

The HCM City Public Transport Management and Operation Centre on Monday began operation of two more subsidised buses in Cần Giờ Island district.

Leaders of the Formosa Hà Tĩnh Steel Corporation (FHS) officially apologised for a shocking statement made by a company’s representative on Monday regarding recent mass fish deaths in the central region.

On the 22nd anniversary of South Africa’s Freedom Day today, Việt Nam News presents an article written by South Africa Ambassador Kgomotso Ruth Magau.

The Government of Việt Nam, the United Nations and partners are appealing to the international community to support a US$48.5 million emergency response plan launched yesterday to address the worsening drought in the country.

The number of cervical cancer cases in Việt Nam has fallen by half in the last 30 years thanks to a nationwide network of health facilities providing gynaecology screening, according to Professor Nguyễn Chấn Hùng, chairman of Việt Nam Cancer Association.

The National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) today announced it would officially apply nucleic acid testing (NAT) in the blood screening process.

Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyễn Hồng Trường yesterday urged relevant parties to speed up work on the Cát Linh-Hà Đông elevated railway project.

Some 800 disadvantaged youth nationwide will get free training in job-ready skills by the local vocational training organisation REACH.

A highly-poisonous toxin may be the behind the abnormal mass fish deaths along the central coast of Việt Nam over the last three weeks.

Tourists will no longer be able to have a barbeque feast on the Vũng Tàu beach as the coastal city is seeking a better environment for tourists.