Việt Nam News

Experts have warned of more severe weather conditions this year, particularly a drought and heat wave.

The Mekong province of Bến Tre has called off all fruit exhibitions and festivals scheduled for this year, with authorities saying drought and saline intrusion have decimated its orchards and there is nothing more to show.

Many farmers in Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces have switched from growing rice to drought-resistant crops to cope with the region’s worst drought in 100 years.

The Cancer Patients Assistance Fund under the Ministry of Health on April 29 awarded 100 gifts worth VNĐ1 million (US$45) each for children with cancer.

The HCM City Department of Health is working with Phạm Ngọc Thạch Medical University to expand a programme to send recent medical doctors to hospitals in the outlying districts of Cần Giờ and Củ Chi.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) aims to make lobster breeding a key economic sector of the central coastal provinces in Việt Nam.

The former general director and chairman of PetroVietnam Manpower Development and Services Company (Petromanning), 42-year-old Đào Thành Long of Hà Nội, was sentenced to nine years in prison yesterday.

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Photos show crowds at bus stations ahead of the four-day-long vacation starting today.

The government’s national power development plan that calls for a higher proportion of power generation from renewable energy by 2030, including water, wind, solar and biomass, has not met its targets or the country’s potential, according to the Việt Nam Sustainable Energy Alliance (VSEA).

The central province of Bình Thuận will launch next week a measles-rubella vaccination campaign to cover some 43,400 youth aged 16-17 years.

The Việt Nam General Department of Roads (VNGDR) will set up a hotline to receive complaints and information from road users nationwide.

Some nine million administrative records were registered and returned through postal services last year, saving more than VNĐ1.6 trillion (US$71 million), an official said.

Workers at industrial zones nationwide put a lot of hopes and wishes on the improvement of their living and working conditions ahead of upcoming meeting between Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and labourers in the South.

Dozens of houses in HCM City’s Districts 2 and Bình Thạnh have developed wide cracks on walls and seen their foundations sink allegedly due to the construction of metro line No 1.

HCM City authorities will work closely with central provinces, where mass fish deaths have occurred because of chemical substances discharged into waterways, to prevent and stop the trade of dead or dying fish from these areas in HCM City.

Boat owners in the central coastal province of Quảng Ngãi are struggling to find workers to go offshore fishing, Voice of Việt Nam’s (VOV) radio station reported.

The Strengthening Profession-Oriented Higher Education (POHE) project has supported Vietnamese university education by connecting training with reality, said Dr Nguyễn Thị Kim Phụng, head of the Ministry of Education and Training’s Higher Education Department.