Việt Nam News

Nearly 27 tonnes of frozen meat have been left unclaimed at Chùa Vẽ Port in the northern city of Hải Phòng for two years. The meat is now rotting, producing a foul odour.

Police in HCM City has proposed to the Ministry of Public Security a plan to revive the special anti-burglary force to deal with robberies in the city.

Any person who provides information to authorised agencies on smuggling or a trade fraud case will receive a reward of up to VNĐ200 million (US$8,900).

Happy Spoon Ltd Co, which supplies food to workers at the Minh Hưng industrial zone in Bình Phước Province, has been forced to temporarily suspended operations after 243 workers suffered from food poisoning.

More than 2,000 households along the Hồng (Red) River and the Thái Bình River will be relocated as part of the new national plan for flood prevention and control.

The Prime Minister has agreed to a pilot project to run electric cars to serve tourists in two more provinces.

Nắng Sông Hồng Eco JSC was asked to stop its business operations on the Hồng (Red) River bed in Bồ Đề Ward and dismantle its construction works before June 30.

The Hà Nội People’s Court on Wednesday sentenced a 54-year-old woman to 12 years of imprisonment for defrauding others and making fake government seals.

The Project Management Board Unit 85 has submitted a project proposal to the Ministry of Transport to build a highway that would connect Hàm Nghi and Vũng Áng in the central province of Hà Tĩnh.

The People’s Committee of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum has decided to withdrawn the investment certificate of Đắk Brot Hydropower Plant and stop construction in response to long delays.

The Việt Nam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee, VFF local units and their member organisations have decided to set aside VNĐ50.8 billion (US$2.3 million) to support provinces affected by prolonged droughts, saline intrusion and mass fish death.

Việt Nam has seen a remarkable reduction in the exposure rate to secondhand smoke (SHS) over the past decade, an official has said.

Illegal Vietnamese workers in South Korea who voluntarily return home from May 1 to September 30 this year will not have to pay any administrative penalties.

Nearly 97,000 labourers were employed in the first four months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 0.29 per cent, according to a report of the city’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Disasters such as drought, salt water intrusion and severe cold have already caused higher financial losses this year than last year.

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The marine economy in Mekong Delta’s Kiên Giang Province has developed rapidly over the past five years after local government investment of VNĐ111 trillion (US$5 billion) in the 2011 – 2015 period.

Adopting drastic measures to minimise the impact of prostitution on society was identified as the core task of the prostitution prevention programme for 2016-20.