Việt Nam News

Poor electrical wiring is considered the most common cause of fire in every household, office, plant and trade complex, the city fire chief warned during a meeting with media on Friday.

Motorbikes’ exhaust fumes will be inspected, initially in five big cities, if a newly-proposed plan by the Ministry of Transport is approved.

Additional legal framework is needed to speed up the restructuring of State-owned plantations in Việt Nam, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hà Công Tuấn said at a conference on Thursday.

Human trafficking is serious, complicated, and has been reported in all 63 provinces and cities across the country, said major-general Nguyễn Phong Hòa, deputy director of the General Department of Police under the Ministry of Public Security, at a conference in Hà Nội on Thursday.

The People’s Committee of the central province of Bình Phước yesterday declared diphtheria an epidemic after three people died and 47 others were hospitalised to be treated for the bacterial infection.

City officials at a workshop on Friday in HCM City urged passage of a new regulation that would separate the sale of food additives and industrial chemicals within shops to prevent the sale of fraudulent or banned substances.  

The Ministry of Health plans to expand the family doctor model to 80 per cent of provinces and cities nationwide by 2020, participants heard at an online conference yesterday.

The US hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) and the Japanese Navy ship of Japan Maritime Self Defence Force, JSDS Shimokita (LST-4002), and the Việt Nam People's Navy ship Khánh Hòa docked at the central city’s Tiên Sa Port to begin Pacific Partnership 2016 (PP16).

Police from northern city of Hải Phòng said three people had died and a person was badly injured in two car accidents in the locality.

Fish have died en masse in farming cages in the central Thừa Thiên Huế Province, causing distress to farmers who fear they have lost all the money they invested.

Construction workers are moving an 800-tonne building 40 metres from its original location in the central Nghệ An Province.

A methane explosion on a ship in northern Hải Phòng City injured six workers this morning.

The Hà Nội People’s Committee has instructed the city’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to deal with dyke violations strictly.

The Sài Gòn Water Corporation (Sawaco) has submitted a plan to build underground water tanks around HCM City to store water from treatment plants.

More than VNĐ160 billion (US$ 7.2 million) will be invested in a project to improve population quality between 2016 and 2020 in the city.

Job positions for mid-level and senior managers rose by 38 per cent in the second quarter against the first three months of the year, according to job recruiting agency Navigos Search.

Dozen of tonnes of waste, allegedly discharged by Hưng Nghiệp Formosa Hà Tĩnh Steel Company, were discovered buried in a landfill in central Hà Tĩnh Province’s Thiên Cầm Town in Cẩm Xuyên District.

Stable economic growth has led to increased labour demand in HCM City in the first half of the year, according to HCM City’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.