Việt Nam News

The authorities in coordination with the concerned agencies yesterday began work on the construction of some key projects of 2016, including the building of the Cầm Thi cable-stayed bridge.

Unexploded bombs were detected in residential areas in the northern province of Thái Nguyên, the provincial military command reported yesterday.

Environmental police in Hà Tĩnh central province reported they have seized some 4cu.m. of precious timber in Đức Thọ District’s Thái Yên Commune.

The HCM City People’s Court today confirmed the death penalty for a Philippine woman who had trafficked 1.5 kilogrammes of cocaine to Việt Nam in 2013, overturning an appeals court verdict that had struck down her original death sentence.

Hà Nội’s Market Management Department’s police seized a large number of goods of unknown origin in Ba Đình District yesterday.

Inter-provincial bus stations and passenger transport businesses have been asked to publicise the hotlines for contacting coach managers.

The number of children in many localities being hospitalised has kept increasing over recent days due to unfavourable weather conditions.

Authorities in HCM City’s outlying districts plan to co-operate with local water supply companies to lay pipes to achieve their target of supplying clean water to all households by the end of this year.

 Hà Nội must step up inspections on hot spots at whole sale markets such as Long Biên, Ngã Tư Sở and Phùng Khoang markets to block contaminated food from being moved to small-scale markets within the city, a health official said.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has decided to restrict the operation of cranes at construction sites, which would likely affect traffic and neighbouring construction projects.  
 

Sewage discharge was the culprit responsible for a mass fish kill earlier this month in central Hà Tĩnh Province’s Kỳ Anh Town, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s environmental and disease monitoring centre announced.

The police in Hà Nội’s Đống Đa District, in co-ordination with the police of the environmental crime prevention department of the Public Security Ministry, yesterday seized goods smuggled from China.

Some 5,000 traffic accidents occurred across Việt Nam in the first quarter of 2016, killing nearly 2,200 people and injuring more than 4,500, the National Traffic Safety Committee has reported.

The authorities in the central highland province of Đắk Nông yesterday suspended four forest wardens for not investigating the concealment of more than 250cu.m of wood in Đắk G’Long District.

Việt Nam’s headline inflation rate increased by 1.69 per cent in the first quarter of this year, putting pressure on the new Government to curb the rate going forward, according to a quarterly report on macroeconomic growth.

Việt Nam has about 150,000 new cancer patients and more than 75,000 people die for cancer per year, Deputy Minister of Health Phạm Lê Tuấn said in a conference on the issue held on Tuesday in Hà Nội.

The People’s Court in HCM City sentenced two people to death  yesterday for trafficking 11.8kg of heroin.

Measures to stop the use of banned substances and overuse of antibiotics in animal husbandry were discussed at a forum organised in Bình Dương Province on Tuesday.