Việt Nam News

The police have identified the murderer responsible for the brutal killing of four members of a family in the northern Lào Cai Province.

Hà Nội now has 1,600 construction inspectors working from municipal level to ward and commune levels, but construction experts said that a number of violations in the field were still reported.

Activists yesterday called the legal framework on association unfair and biased towards public society organisations (PSOs), while creating barriers to the operations of civil organisations.

All four packages of the World Bank-funded Mekong Delta Transport Infrastructure Development Project, also known as WB5, have been completed.

Four people belonging to a single family in this northern mountainous province were murdered during a suspected robbery Tuesday evening, the provincial People’s Committee of Bát Xát District has said.

President Trần Đại Quang saidThe 55th Agent Orange (AO) Day in Việt Nam was commemorated in Hà Nội yesterday when President Trần Đại Quang said the settlement of chemical toxin consequences is an urgent and long-term issue, and also the responsibility of the whole political system and people.
 

The infringement of intellectual property (IP), manufacturing and trading of counterfeit goods in Việt Nam has become increasingly complicated with more sophisticated tricks being employed. Yet, most violations were punished with administrative penalties.

The quality of school buses has declined in recent years, leading to a dramatic drop in use by students, according to education officials.

HCM City has set a target to save 2.5 per cent of energy consumption between now and 2020, according to a report by city authorities.

Hundreds of people in An Phú and Ngọc Thach hamlets in Tinh An Commune in central Quảng Ngãi City have gathered near the Trà Khúc River to stop trucks from removing sand from the river, the online Dân Trí reported.

Trần Văn Thêm, 81, of northern Bắc Ninh Province’s Yên Phụ Commune, after 44 years charged with murdering, was declared innocent by Deputy Judge of the Supreme People’s Court Bùi Ngọc Hòa yesterday afternoon.

Residents of Hà Nội will be able to watch the Perseid meteor shower from 1 to 2am on Friday, with the number of meteor sightings expected to double, compared to last year.

HCM City plans to spend more than VNĐ5.7 trillion (US$253.7 million) on three general hospitals in the city’s outlying districts in order to help reduce 80 per cent to 90 per cent of patient overloads at city or central-level hospitals, according to the Department of Health.

More than 50 overseas Vietnamese teachers from 13 countries and territories are participating in a training course in Hà Nội from August 7 – 21.

The Grace Southern Baptist General Confederation is holding its third general conference in HCM City from August 8 to 11. 

Prenatal and postnatal screening has helped reduce the risk of deformities among a majority of newborns, a doctor at Hà Nội Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital has said.

Eleven drug smugglers were sentenced to death while two other defendants received sentences of life imprisonment for storing, trafficking and trading more than 280 kilos of heroin at an eight-day-long court session in the northern province of Lạng Sơn that ended yesterday.

 HCM City plans to use state budget funds to build 10 fly-over systems at the city’s most congested traffic sites this year, according to the city’s Department of Transport.