Việt Nam News

The Supreme People’s Procuracy (SPP) is reviewing the police decision not to prosecute former leaders of Vinaconex Corporation for 18 breaches of the Đà River pipeline.

Airports across Việt Nam have been ordered to tighten aviation security following cyber-attacks at HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất international airport and Hà Nội’s Nội Bài international airport last Friday afternoon. 

The central coastal city has become a favourite destination for foreign diplomatic delegations and investors and a good example for other Vietnamese cities in utilising Official Development Aid (ODA), Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh said at a meeting with the city’s leadership on Saturday.

Customs officers at HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport yesterday discovered a passenger illegally trafficking in forbidden rhino horns from Africa.

Border guards at the Móng Cái International Border Gate with China, in the northern province of Quảng Ninh, confirmed yesterday that the three kilos of white-coloured crystal they had seized two days earlier were illegal drugs.

The Hà Nội municipal People’s Committee on Saturday held a ceremony to launch the construction of a flyover bridge in Long Biên District.

The fight against unsafe food requires more joint drastic efforts by State agencies, food producers, suppliers and users, according to the director of the National Agro Forestry and Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIQAD), Nguyễn Như Tiệp.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta are struggling to resume agricultural production because of the lingering effects of the recent drought and saltwater intrusion and a shortage of funds and seeds.

Leaders of the southern Đồng Nai Province have requested the Government’s permission to use VNĐ1 trillion (US$44.76 million) from the State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) to build two resettlement areas.

Mirinae, the first storm to hit Việt Nam this year, made landfall with wind speeds of level 11–12 (about 100-130km per hour). It damaged crops, uprooted thousands of trees and caused massive power cuts in the north including in Hà Nội, Thái Bình, Hải Phòng, Hà Nam and Ninh Bình.

The number of children with respiratory infections admitted to children’s hospitals in HCM City has soared in the last few days.

Globalisation and technology are transforming universities and colleges worldwide, leading to different approaches in research and education, including in Việt Nam, the president of University of Victoria in Canada said at a conference in HCM City.

Authorities of the northern Ninh Bình Province’s Gia Viễn District are making every effort to wipe out illegal gathering areas of building materials built along the Hoàng Long River dike, said Nguyễn Anh Tuấn, deputy chairman of the district People’s Committee.

The number of children in the city suffering from a condition where the chest appears sunken has increased unusually, doctors from Paediatrics Hospital No 1 said.

Da Nang city’s immigration public security force and Ngũ Hành Sơn Police seized dozens of posters that had illegally printed the local beach under the name ‘China Beach’ at a tour service company in the city.

The search to find an Su30-MK2 aircraft that crashed off central Nghệ An Province has ended, Dương Minh Hiền, deputy commander of central Nghệ An Province’s Military Command, told local media yesterday.

An 11-hectare centre for chemical trading will be built near Phong Phú Industrial Park in HCM City’s District 8 to replace Kim Biên Market, known as the “market of death” for its sale of toxic, and sometimes banned, chemicals.  

The Bình Phước Food Administration yesterday ordered the suspension of a company’s operations following food poisoning of 33 workers who had to be hospitalised on Monday.