Việt Nam News

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc hailed the sound relations between Việt Nam and Japan in the fields of economics, culture and politics in recent years, during a reception for Executive Vice President of the Toyota Motor Corporation, Nobuyori Kodaira

A barge on Saturday morning crashed into the Cơn Độ Bridge in the central province of Hà Tĩnh, causing the structure to collapse and the barge to sink.

The ground-breaking ceremony for the second-phase construction of Nghệ An Friendship General Hospital was held on Sunday by the provincial people’s committee and the Technical Construction and Building Materials Joint-Stock Company.

More than 400 news outlets have participated in the first ever national press festival that opened in Hà Nội yesterday.

Thousands of households living on the corridor of (Hồng) Red River dyke system in Hà Nội will likely be moved as part of the flood prevention plan, authorities and experts have said.

The signature spring festival of Điện Biên Phủ, or Hoa Ban Festival, begins tonight here in Điện Biên City with hundreds of local performers and international visitors in attendance.

Proper irrigation, including the use of alternative wetting and drying methods, will help protect crops during the ongoing drought and saline intrusion in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta.

Until recently, growing grass to prevent soil erosion was beyond the imagination of many farmers in this northern mountainous region

Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng has approved the funding of nearly US$224 million for Secondary Cities Development Project (Green Cities).

Company Limited China Railway Bureau Group 6, the main contractor for the Cát Linh-Hà Đông elevated railway project, was discovered to be skirting safety requirements and using workers who were not professionally trained. 

Vice chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee said he hopes to strengthen co-operation with Finland’s investors, particularly in technology during a meeting on Wednesday with Lenita Toivakka, Finland’s Minister for Foreign Trade and Development in HCM City.

Doctors from Đồng Nai General Hospital have removed a 11kg tumour from the abdomen of a 100-year-old woman.

The Government has planned to spend about VNĐ 317 billion (US$14.2 million) yearly on offering preferential loans to disadvantaged medical graduates during their apprenticeship at hospitals

City polls 400,000 households for multi-dimensional poverty data collection

 The Hà Nội People’s Court yesterday ordered the imprisonment of several bus drivers of the Thăng Long Bus Enterprise for robbery.

Prolonged dry weather has put many parts of Việt nam at a risk of forest fires, the Forest Protection Department warned.

Hà Nội City People’s Committee reported there were numerous violations of dyke management last year that were not dealt with strictly or punished, but that good progress has been made.

Five fishermen, whose boat sank near the Hoàng Sa (Paracel) archipelago on Monday, have been rescued.