Việt Nam News

Company Limited China Railway Bureau Group 6, the main contractor for the Cát Linh-Hà Đông elevated railway project, was discovered to be skirting safety requirements and using workers who were not professionally trained. 

Vice chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee said he hopes to strengthen co-operation with Finland’s investors, particularly in technology during a meeting on Wednesday with Lenita Toivakka, Finland’s Minister for Foreign Trade and Development in HCM City.

Doctors from Đồng Nai General Hospital have removed a 11kg tumour from the abdomen of a 100-year-old woman.

 The Hà Nội People’s Court yesterday ordered the imprisonment of several bus drivers of the Thăng Long Bus Enterprise for robbery.

Prolonged dry weather has put many parts of Việt nam at a risk of forest fires, the Forest Protection Department warned.

Hà Nội City People’s Committee reported there were numerous violations of dyke management last year that were not dealt with strictly or punished, but that good progress has been made.

Experts said early action to prevent saline intrusion and reduce the affects of drought is key to protecting crops.

Five fishermen, whose boat sank near the Hoàng Sa (Paracel) archipelago on Monday, have been rescued.

The Government has planned to spend about VNĐ 317 billion (US$14.2 million) yearly on offering preferential loans to disadvantaged medical graduates during their apprenticeship at hospitals

City polls 400,000 households for multi-dimensional poverty data collection

Slack regulation of the use of priority traffic horns and lights recently in Hà Nội is giving residents a headache.

Some 702 solar lanterns have been provided to the northern Yên Bái Province by Panasonic in an integrated environmental event jointly organised by Vietnam Environment Administration and World Vision International Vietnam.

The Đà Nẵng City Association for Victims of Agent Orange (DAVA) inaugurated a house for Agent Orange (AO) victims with polio in Hòa Nhơn Commune in Hòa Vang District yesterday.

Hà Nội City police are coordinating with Customs to escalate the fight against drug smuggling, especially aboard flights.

Some 160,000 meningitis vaccine doses will be imported to Việt Nam in April, according to the Department of Medicine Management under the Ministry of Health (MoH).

A fire at the Hoàng Liên–Văn Bàn Nature Reserve in this northern province's Văn Bàn District took 14 hours to control before being stamped out at 4am today.

Anne Chamfort, an astrologer and psychic of international repute, is visiting Việt Nam for the first time to launch her Great Book of Secrets in the Vietnamese language.

Vietnamese border guards, and other law enforcement forces of the country, always support fishermen when they go fishing legally in traditional Trường Sa (Spratly) and Hoàng Sa (Paracel) fisheries.