Việt Nam News

An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale was recorded Saturday morning in Mường Nhé District, northern Điện Biên Province, according to the Điện Biên Phủ Seismic Observation Station.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam yesterday said information technology needed to further develop to help the country maintain a high growth rate in order to catch up with other developed countries in the region.

Việt Nam and China has recently completed their joint survey of waters off the mouth of the Gulf of Tonkin.

The central province started construction of two key projects – the Nam Hội An Integrated Resort Project and the expansion of the Trường Hải-Chu Lai Mechanical Automobile Industrial Zone – in ceremonies yesterday.

Representative from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development yesterday told Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng that in three to five days, they would have the conclusion for the reason of the massive death of fish along coastal provinces in the past two weeks.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Trần Hồng Hà said Việt Nam needs to shift its development model, which is based on low labour costs and natural resources, to a clean and environmentally-friendly model to prepare for the Paris Agreement’s implementation.

Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City in the last year has applied a number of  advanced techniques in diagnosis and treatment, including organ transplans and PET/CT scans, according to the hospital director Nguyễn Trường Sơn.

The Vietnamese Journalism Association should pay more attention to the improvement of its members’ political and professional skills since the social and media environments have become complex, the head of the Central Publicity and Education Commission, Võ Văn Thưởng, told a journalists’ meeting yesterday.

A national social media campaign that will begin on April 25 will promote social change by giving parents a forum to discuss road safety and helmet use.

High-quality flower farming has helped make farmers in Hà Nội’s suburban districts more prosperous in the last few years, said Hà Nội’s Agriculture and Rural Development Department director Chu Phú Mỹ.

Inspections of three apartment buildings found the water quality did not meet the Ministry of Health's standards, Võ Nguyên Phong, deputy director of Hà Nội’s Department of Construction, said.

A hotline has been set up to receive feedback from people and businesses on the difficulties they may encounter while registering for land use certificates or “red books.”

Thailand will begin receiving Vietnamese workers to work in the fishing and construction sectors from May, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

More than 300 workers were hospitalised due to food poisoning in the southern province of Bình Phước yesterday.

The government will stop collecting the controversial road maintenance fees from motorbike riders from June 5.

The inspection team of the agriculture ministry has for the first time destroyed a herd of pigs in Tiền Giang Province that were fed with food containing salbutamol, a banned substance in animal feeding.

Newly-elected Minister of Internal Affairs Lê Vĩnh Tân said the ministry would focus on six key tasks stated by the 12th Party Congress’s Resolution and six management priorities stated by the Government, which stepped up the fight against corruption, aims to eliminate cumbersome bureaucracy and implement public administrative reform.

Students fail to make use of apprenticeships as they lack the skills required to adapt to the real workplace, researchers from the HCM City Pedagogical University have claimed after a two-year study.