The US Government will continue to provide disaster relief grants to help Việt Nam respond to the severe drought and saltwater intrusion affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the southern provinces and Central Highlands, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced last Friday.
In the first three months of the year, 121 fires, three-fourth of the number during the same period last year, occurred, injuring nine people.
HCM City has announced that it will pump an estimated VNĐ11.61 trillion into 84 projects in an attempt to reduce floods over the next five years.
Việt Nam’s maritime force chased six Chinese fishing vessels out of its waters in the central province of Quảng Bình, the municipal border defence force confirmed yesterday.
Local and international experts have proposed solutions to help HCM City secure its short- and long-term water supply.
The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has detained 23 Vietnamese fishermen on charges of illegally fishing in the waters off of Terengganu and Pahang states.
Officials from the transport sectors of southern provinces urged the government to issue special policies to encourage the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) in public transportation.
Authorities have reached their first conclusion on the cause of the sinkhole collapse last weekend in Hà Nội’s Mỹ Đức District, saying it was triggered by a natural cause
Thai company SCG has announced 400 scholarships worth VND4 million (US$180) each and called on outstanding secondary school students from underprivileged families in seven cities and provinces to apply for them.
Many farmers who breed brackish-water shrimp in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have cut back on production because of high salinity this year.
Nearly 9,000 litres of suspected smuggled petrol that was seized early last month originated from military sources, reported National Steering Committee 389.
Cars offering taxi services on technology platforms like GrabTaxi and Uber must put signs reading “TAXI E” [E for "electronic"] on their roofs, the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam has proposed.
The HCM City Department of Health plans to set up six teams to check for mosquitoes and larvae in all city districts as part of its Zika prevention plan, as a pregnant woman has tested positive for the virus.
The central city will start construction of a road tunnel at the junction of Điện Biên Phủ, Nguyễn Tri Phương and Lê Độ, one of the busiest roundabouts in the city, with a total investment of VNĐ220 billion (US$9.77 million) in the third quarter of this year.
The schedule for HCM City’s first bus rapid transit route and details of its construction have been finalized.
Mỹ Mỹ Trades and Services Co. Ltd. yesterday began construction of the American International Hospital (AIH) in HCM City’s District 2, the country’s first American-standard hospital.
Police in Thanh Hóa central province have detained 13 suspects for running football pools on the Internet worth a total of more than VNĐ1.3 trillion (US$57.8 million).
Enterprises with more than five per cent of their Vietnamese interns in Japan breaking their contracts will be stopped from bringing more interns to this country.
A fire broke out yesterday afternoon at an appliance store in this central province's Mỗ Đức District, causing VNĐ10 billion (US$440,000) in damages.
Authorities in the southern province of Tây Ninh arrested two men on Wednesday for illegally entering the country and transporting heroin from Cambodia to Việt Nam.
