Việt Nam News

HCM City plans to provide wireless internet (WiFi) free of charge for tourists and local residents, the deputy chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Trần Vĩnh Tuyến said on Tuesday.

HCM City authorities have paved the way for the long-delayed US$500-million Saigon Safari Park by paying compensation for households affected by the project.

The Chairman of Hà Nội People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung is asking relevant agencies to speed up the issuance of land-use rights certificates in the city.

Bus fares in Hà Nội will continue to rise after more cuts to government subsidies, Hà Huy Quang, deputy director of Hà Nội’s Transport Department said at a press conference on Tuesday.

Swarms of bọ đậu đen, an insect shaped like black bean, have invaded residents’ homes in southern provinces of Đồng Nai and Bình Phước

The central Quảng Nam Province's police have shut down the bigges-evert explosive material smuggling ring, seizing 2,964kg of explosives, 10,000 electric detonators and 1,500 metres of electric wire.

Brake failure was ruled the cause of a road accident in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng that killed at least eight people and injured 30 others on Sunday, an initial investigation revealed.

The HCM City People’s Court handed down sentences ranging from five years to life to five Vietnamese defendants on charges of misappropriating assets and violating loan provision regulations at a trial on May 31.

The shortage of micronutrients in Việt Nam has decreased, but the rate of decrease is slow, experts from the health ministry's Institute of Nutrition said.

Vietnamese and foreign residents no longer have to visit the headquarters of authorised agencies to get their international driving permits issued thanks to an online service which began operations yesterday.

HCM City Preventive Medicine Centre today confirmed the first fatality caused by meningitis since the beginning of this year. The victim was a five-month-old baby girl.

A flood control and prevention project proposal for downtown HCM City, worth VNĐ20 trillion (US$900 million), has been rejected by municipal leaders and irrigation experts.

A volume of untreated waste water discharged from some industrial workshops and sewage from residential quarters in Tây Ninh City and Châu Thành District were confirmed as the main cause of Vàm Cỏ Đông River’s water pollution, a government official said.

The Vietnam URC Company Limited has been fined VNĐ5.8 billion (US$264,000) for its lead-contaminated beverages.

 A Kids Health Care Programme held to celebrate International Children's Day last weekend provided free health examinations and medicine to 10,000 children at HCM City’s September 23 Park in District 1.

A worker died yesterday morning while installing the spans at the Ghềnh Bridge in Biên Hòa City of southern Đồng Nai Province.

An Australian man received life imprisonment for attempting to smuggle drugs out of Việt Nam, HCM City People’s Court has announced.

No exceptions should be allowed in the fight against smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods, Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình said yesterday.