Việt Nam News

Nearly 3,500 units of blood were collected from thousands of youth and volunteers at the last blood-donation drive of the annual blood-donation campaign Hành trình đỏ (the Red Journey) 2016.

The Hà Nội People’s Committee yesterday launched Level 3 of the online public services system for wards, helping residents and enterprises access ward-level services quickly and easily via the internet.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc requested ministries, agencies and localities to prepare for tropical storm Nida, given the likelihood of it hitting northern Việt Nam.

Fred Hollow Foundation (FHF) and Standard Chartered Bank will finance a free eye screening project for more than 7,500 primary school students in the central city in the 2016-18 period.

A co-operative in Hà Nội’s Thanh Trì District will return nearly VNĐ1.7 billion (US$76,500) to its customers after it was found overcharging them for the water supply.

South Korea will temporarily stop receiving workers from 44 districts and towns in 10 Vietnamese provinces and cities, a document released by the labour ministry last Friday said.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.