Việt Nam News

Several provinces and cities with “hot spots” of prostitutes will be chosen to run a pilot model of managing prostitutes to prevent the evil and reduce its harm to the community.

Deputy PM Phúc, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Đức Phát and their entourage visited a 70ha rice field in Chư Dôn Commune, Chư Pưh District, which was badly damaged by the unprecedented drought. 

Water discharged from a Chinese reservoir will reach the Mekong Delta region in 19 days, the water resource directorate’s department of irrigation and dam safety head Đồng Văn Tự said. 

Việt Nam recorded nearly 5,000 road accidents in the first three months of the year, the National Traffic Safety Committee said, in which 2,193 people died and 4,522 were injured.

An historic flood, similar to the flood that battered the central region with 2,000 mm of rain in 1999, is predicted to hit Việt Nam in the second half of this year after the most severe drought in 100 years is forecasted to end by June.

HCM City plans to inspect the conditions of bridges and ensure safety after a barge hit the Ghềnh Bridge recently on Đồng Nai River, causing it to collapse.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng has approved a proposal from the Ministry of Transport and Việt Nam Railway to spend VNĐ298.5 billion (US$13.5 million) to restore Ghềnh Railway Bridge, which collapsed on Sunday after being hit by a barge carrying 800 tonnes of sand on Đồng Nai River.

Blogger Nguyễn Hữu Vinh and his assistant Nguyễn Thị Minh Thúy were sentenced to five and three years in prison, respectively, on the charge of abusing the rights to democracy and freedom to infringe on the interests of the State and rights and interests of organisations and citizens, said a verdict at a trial in Hà Nội yesterday. 

The HCM City’s Department of Transport’s Public Transport Management and Operation Center (PTMO) and  Koa Sha Media Vietnam.

Japan has committed to give more than US$400,000 for four community projects across Việt Nam as a part of its long-term aid to the country.

The chairman of the central coastal city of Đà Nẵng has signed a decision to stop the operation of the Hoà Phát stone quarry because of environmental pollution.

A recent survey has found that people in 10 selected Vietnamese provinces and cities are generally satisfied with local public administration services. 

The Project Management Unit No.6 has submitted to the Ministry of Transport plans to build a 19.5km highway linking the central provinces of Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh.

Insurer Bảo Việt Group held a ceremony to donate a motor boat worth VNĐ3.5 billion ($156,200) to soldiers on Trường Sa Archipelago on Tuesday.

Việt Nam will have nearly two million hectares of urban area by 2020, the natural resources and environment ministry has said.

A fire broke out at about 8pm yesterday, destroying nearly 20,000 tonnes of sliced cassavas belonging to Phú Lợi Private Company in Ia Dêr Commune.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Belgium has launched two hotlines to receive emergency information relating to Vietnamese nationals there following the terror attacks in Brussels yesterday, the foreign affairs ministry said.

China’s Xinxing Corporation has won the bid for the supply of materials for the second phase of the Đà River water pipeline.