Việt Nam News

Nearly 1.2 million students in HCM City are expected to enrol in schools for the upcoming academic year, an increase of 59,000 compared to last year, according to the city’s Department of Education and Training.

The amount of hi-tech crimes has risen by 21.6 per cent in the first six months of the year, according to a report by the Ministry of Public Security.

Authorities in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng are conducting an investigation of a case in which one man was killed and two others injured while on duty at the Nam Ban Protective Forest in Lâm Hà District on Monday afternoon.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has approved, in principle, the construction of 1,000 public toilets to serve the local populace and tourists visiting the city.

A Lexus car crashed into a house in northern Hải Phòng City at 1am today, leaving one dead and five others injured, including a 17-month-old baby.

The regulation to penalise drivers who drive through yellow traffic lights will be reviewed and cancelled if it is found improper and impractical, Police Major General Trần Thế Quân said.

Viwasupco, which is implementing a Hà Nội water supply project, said it had cancelled a bid and would not sign a contract with China’s Xinxing Ductile Iron Pipes Co. Ltd.

People’s Court of Hà Nội yesterday sentenced Lâm Phúc Hùng, 57, of Đống Đa District, to 14 years’ imprisonment for using Internet and digital tools to appropriate VNĐ80 billion (US$3.6 million).

The Hà Nội administration will conduct initial inspection of the safety of old buildings across the city from August 16 to December 16.

A ship has sunk and two people are missing following a collision between two ships 118 nautical miles off Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu Province late last night.

Vietnamese technology group Bkav yesterday said the malware that recently attacked national carrier Vietnam Airlines has also penetrated the websites of government agencies, corporations, banks and research institutes, besides universities.

People in Quan Thổ 1 Alley on Tôn Đức Thắng Street of Hà Nội live in fear because they do not know when a house that tilts precariously will collapse.

 When most of the houses have turned off their lights and darkness covers the city, Lê Hà Phương, a second-year student at Hà Nội College of Medicine wears her first aid bag filled with medical supplies and free medicine and gets ready to visit special patients.

 The American University in Việt Nam has been launched in the central city in a grand opening ceremony, the first education institution under the US curriculum in the central Việt Nam.

The first two typhoons to hit Việt Nam this year have caused damage worth more than VNĐ6.7 trillion (US$297.7 million), announced the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD) yesterday.(MoARD) yesterday.

An international workshop was held in Hà Nội yesterday to share research on Agent Orange (AO) consequences and discuss measures to help Vietnamese AO/dioxin victims. 

Experts from Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia and Việt Nam have concluded that the capital needs a modern sewage system for flooding prevention.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has asked Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) provinces to take drastic measures to stop the spread of dengue fever in the region.