Việt Nam News

The Prime Minister has approved a project for three new farm co-operative models for rice, aquatic products and fruit in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta by 2020. The project aims to promote connections between co-operatives and farmers, as well as improve the conditions of local people.

The People’s Court of the northern province of Hòa Bình sentenced two drug traffickers for illegally transporting heroin.

Doctors at Chợ Rẫy Hospital’s cardiac surgery ward have begun using a less invasive surgical technique to treat patients with aortic disease.

Việt Nam has ranked fourth out of 149 countries assessed for how well they convert national wealth into well-being for the population, according to a recent analysis from the Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) Sustainable Economic Development Assessment (SEDA).

As many as 28 enterprises nation-wide have been selected to participate in 31 agricultural projects that apply a hi-tech models with low interest loans, the State Bank of Việt Nam has said.

“Everyone has to save water,” said Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, Nguyễn Minh Quang, yesterday at a meeting themed ‘Water and Jobs’ to celebrate World Water Day 2016, that took place in the northern province of Thanh Hóa.

 Most of the electric four-wheelers used for tourist purposes nationwide have yet to be registered, the Việt Nam Register said.

The Institute for Preventive Medicine and Public Health (IPMPH) and Methanol Institute (MI) today launched a programme to protect people from improperly brewed, homemade alcohol and methanol-laced alcoholic drinks.

The registration of electric motorbikes will become mandatory, as per the deputy prime minister’s new regulation that will take effect on July 1.

"Mizuiku - I love clean water," an education programme to promote children's awareness of water conservation, was launched today in HCM City.

The marine police have caught six vessels for smuggling 700,000 litres of diesel in the sea bordering Việt Nam and Malaysia, the government’s online newspaper said.

More than 56,000 new-borns have been registered birth certificates and issued citizen identification numbers after two months of implementing the law on civil status and citizen ID card, which took effect since early this January, the Ministry of Justice has said.

The Việt Nam Red Cross (VNRC) and the Procter and Gamble Company (P&G) will work together on humanitarian programmes as part of a co-operation agreement signed today in Hà Nội.

Businesses that overcharge tourists will have their business licences revoked, according to a Quảng Bình Province official.

A fire damaged a furniture workshop in Đại Lãnh Commune in the central province’s Đại Lộc District early March 22.

A project approved by the then Prime Minister 16 years ago hasn’t been finished and continues to waste the State’s money.

 Private hospitals are struggling to receive patients, with most of them operating at 40-50 per cent of their capacity, according to the Việt Nam Private Hospital Association.

Old apartment buildings in Hà Nội that are in danger of collapsing have remained in their current condition for years because residents, authorities and investors have failed to agree on a plan to upgrade the structures.