Việt Nam News

The Association of Electric Bikes and Motorbikes has proposed to the transport ministry that they extend the mandatory registration for electric bikes to the end of this year.

The local procuracy apologised to a cafe-owner in HCM City’s Bình Chánh District for a ‘baseless’ prosecution against him while four officials involved were suspended from work.

Việt Nam still had to face long-term threats including A/H7N9 bird flu and new infectious diseases such as Ebola, Zika, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and other problems such as high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer and unsafe food.

Strict punishment and better communication: two key tasks for safer agriculture products, officials

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources has warned of more mass fish deaths in the central coastal area of Việt Nam due to the impending hot weather.

A young man has committed suicide when he detonated a home-made grenade in Buôn Ma Thuột City, in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk.  

Contaminated food at markets nationwide has recently raised a strong wave of opposition from consumers. Children are also exposed to high risks from food stalls surrounding schools before and after class. No one has vouched for the stalls’ quality, but the prices are so cheap that children find it difficult to resist the snacks.

An Endangered Asiatic black bear was rescued in the central city yesterday after a household released it to Việt Nam’s Bear Rescue Centre.

Experts have proposed the construction of between five to seven dam on Hồng (Red) River to raise the water level to serve agricultural production and water transport without affecting flood drainage.

Children’s hospitals in HCM City are getting a large number of patients with respiratory ailments and diarrhoea due to an ongoing hot spell in southern region with temperatures rising up to 37 degrees Celsius.

A fisherman in Bình Định Province was rescued at sea, 200 nautical miles off the Đà Nẵng coast.

The Department of Education plans to ask the city to issue detailed regulations on private services for students who must attend school in either a morning or afternoon shift.

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has fined Việt Trì Bridge BOT JSC for illegally blocking vehicles from traveling on Hạc Trì Bridge in this northern province.

Prosecutors and police in southern Đồng Nai Province’s Nhơn Trạch District yesterday apologised for wrongly arresting and prosecuting a local woman who had reported illegal sand dredging in September 2015.

Portrait of a young girl from the Hà Nhì ethnic group in the northern mountainous Bát Xát District, Lào Cai Province. -- VNS Photo Việt Thanh

Three people died and six others were hospitalised for gas asphyxiation on Saturday morning in Hưng Mỹ Commune, in the southernmost Cà Mau Province’s Cái Nước District, after a biogas tank purportedly leaked near their houses.

A dead whale found on a beach in central Thừa Thiên-Huế yesterday morning has provided clear evidence of an environmental incident taking place in the coastal stretch of four central provinces.
 

HCM City has obtained significant progress in gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in the last five years, Nguyễn Trọng Đàm, deputy minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, said at a conference held on Friday in HCM City.