Việt Nam News

A young man has committed suicide when he detonated a home-made grenade in Buôn Ma Thuột City, in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk.  

Contaminated food at markets nationwide has recently raised a strong wave of opposition from consumers. Children are also exposed to high risks from food stalls surrounding schools before and after class. No one has vouched for the stalls’ quality, but the prices are so cheap that children find it difficult to resist the snacks.

An Endangered Asiatic black bear was rescued in the central city yesterday after a household released it to Việt Nam’s Bear Rescue Centre.

Experts have proposed the construction of between five to seven dam on Hồng (Red) River to raise the water level to serve agricultural production and water transport without affecting flood drainage.

Children’s hospitals in HCM City are getting a large number of patients with respiratory ailments and diarrhoea due to an ongoing hot spell in southern region with temperatures rising up to 37 degrees Celsius.

A fisherman in Bình Định Province was rescued at sea, 200 nautical miles off the Đà Nẵng coast.

The Department of Education plans to ask the city to issue detailed regulations on private services for students who must attend school in either a morning or afternoon shift.

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has fined Việt Trì Bridge BOT JSC for illegally blocking vehicles from traveling on Hạc Trì Bridge in this northern province.

Prosecutors and police in southern Đồng Nai Province’s Nhơn Trạch District yesterday apologised for wrongly arresting and prosecuting a local woman who had reported illegal sand dredging in September 2015.

Portrait of a young girl from the Hà Nhì ethnic group in the northern mountainous Bát Xát District, Lào Cai Province. -- VNS Photo Việt Thanh

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has asked provincial departments of education and training to build swimming pools in schools to give swimming training to students.

Experts have urged the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces to rezone irrigation systems and dredge canals to cope with the damaging effects of climate change.

An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale was recorded Saturday morning in Mường Nhé District, northern Điện Biên Province, according to the Điện Biên Phủ Seismic Observation Station.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam yesterday said information technology needed to further develop to help the country maintain a high growth rate in order to catch up with other developed countries in the region.

Representative from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development yesterday told Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng that in three to five days, they would have the conclusion for the reason of the massive death of fish along coastal provinces in the past two weeks.

Việt Nam and China has recently completed their joint survey of waters off the mouth of the Gulf of Tonkin.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Trần Hồng Hà said Việt Nam needs to shift its development model, which is based on low labour costs and natural resources, to a clean and environmentally-friendly model to prepare for the Paris Agreement’s implementation.

Three people died and six others were hospitalised for gas asphyxiation on Saturday morning in Hưng Mỹ Commune, in the southernmost Cà Mau Province’s Cái Nước District, after a biogas tank purportedly leaked near their houses.