Việt Nam News

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình yesterday asked the police to investigate the alleged removal of nearly 150 graves in Khánh Hòa Province without the knowledge of the deceased’s relatives.

The first session of the Asian Youth Forum 14 was held yesterday afternoon at the Đà Nẵng University of Foreign Language Studies.

Two of nine persons who had been rescued from the site of a building collapse at about 3.30am today at No 43 Cửa Bắc Street in Hà Nội have died.

With the rescue of one person at 9.45am today, workers have saved all those who were trapped in a building collapse at No 43 Cửa Bắc Street in Hà Nội.

Forty seven provinces and cities in the country now have hotlines on violations related to land-use right and management, the Ministry for Natural Resources and Environment reported.

Three more satellite 115 emergency aid stations opened in HCM City this week, according to the city’s Department of Health.

A pair of conjoined twins will be separated during microsurgery by doctors at HCM City Paediatrics Hospital No.2 when the twins turn three months old.

A 27-year-old patient, from Sơn Hòa district’s Sơn Hội commune, was yesterday confirmed as the third in Việt Nam to be affected with the Zika virus. The first two cases were found in central Khánh Hòa province and HCM City.

HCM City is buying new buses, upgrading existing buses and creating more bus routes to attract riders as the number of riders continues to fall.

At the age of 61, Lê Thị Bích Thủy of HCM City’s Gò Vấp District still travels around the country on her motorbike with friends, often for charity.

HCM City will focus on easing traffic jams in the two worst affected areas before year-end -- roads leading to Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport and Cát Lái Port -- an official has said.

Hà Nội police yesterday announced they had temporarily detained two men for further investigation in a case involving the illegal trade of fake value-added tax (VAT) bills and tax evasion.

Internet connectivity will slow down in the coming days as the AAG cable connecting South East Asia and the United States has broken again, Viettel and VNPT said today.

The HCM City People’s Committee today decided to implement a VNĐ67.86-billion (US$3 million) project for giving vocational training to ethnic minorities in the 2016-20 period.

The development of the family doctor model will go together with the health system at the grassroots level, which is one of the targets of the family doctor model expansion plan in Việt Nam in the 2016-20 period.

Police in the northern province of Phú Thọ are investigating allegations that a private company has been transporting sulfur through residential areas without proper licensing and conditions.

The Ministry of Health will not increase hospital fees on August 1 as scheduled because of apprehensions about its inflationary effect.

The Việt Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism asked domestic travel agents to manage tours to Russia better as Vietnamese citizens have recently been refused entry into Russia.