Việt Nam News

Human trafficking is serious, complicated, and has been reported in all 63 provinces and cities across the country, said major-general Nguyễn Phong Hòa, deputy director of the General Department of Police under the Ministry of Public Security, at a conference in Hà Nội on Thursday.

The US hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) and the Japanese Navy ship of Japan Maritime Self Defence Force, JSDS Shimokita (LST-4002), and the Việt Nam People's Navy ship Khánh Hòa docked at the central city’s Tiên Sa Port to begin Pacific Partnership 2016 (PP16).

Police from northern city of Hải Phòng said three people had died and a person was badly injured in two car accidents in the locality.

Fish have died en masse in farming cages in the central Thừa Thiên Huế Province, causing distress to farmers who fear they have lost all the money they invested.

Construction workers are moving an 800-tonne building 40 metres from its original location in the central Nghệ An Province.

A methane explosion on a ship in northern Hải Phòng City injured six workers this morning.

The Hà Nội People’s Committee has instructed the city’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to deal with dyke violations strictly.

The Sài Gòn Water Corporation (Sawaco) has submitted a plan to build underground water tanks around HCM City to store water from treatment plants.

More than VNĐ160 billion (US$ 7.2 million) will be invested in a project to improve population quality between 2016 and 2020 in the city.

Job positions for mid-level and senior managers rose by 38 per cent in the second quarter against the first three months of the year, according to job recruiting agency Navigos Search.

Dozen of tonnes of waste, allegedly discharged by Hưng Nghiệp Formosa Hà Tĩnh Steel Company, were discovered buried in a landfill in central Hà Tĩnh Province’s Thiên Cầm Town in Cẩm Xuyên District.

Farmers of the northern mountainous Tuyên Quang Province’s Bình An Commune harvest rice during a bumper crop.

Stable economic growth has led to increased labour demand in HCM City in the first half of the year, according to HCM City’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Hà Nội University of Science and Technology (HUST) and UTS:INSEARCH, the University of Technology Sydney’s English college, have launched a programme to boost the English language skills of Vietnamese researchers.

Scientists and government officials have urged stronger connectivity among countries through which the Mekong River flows to enhance adaptation to climate change and reduce its effects such as saline intrusion and drought. 

The Việt Nam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) has asked the National Salary Council to increase regional minimum wages in 2017 by 10-11 per cent from the current rates.

 A new online portal will enable Vietnamese people living overseas to learn Vietnamese via the Internet, following a project recently approved by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

A passenger coach collided head-on with a car in the central Đà Nẵng City early this morning, seriously injuring four people.