Việt Nam News

A Facebook user in the northern Thái Nguyên Province has been fined VNĐ12.5 million (US$560) for posting a fake story about children being kidnapped for their internal organs.

The Hà Nội Department of Education and Training will withdraw the regulation stipulating that pupils can be suspended from school for repeated traffic offences.

Việt Nam has banned the import of soil into the country, said the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD).

At least two people died while 13 others were seriously injured after a tank truck collided a 24-seater coach in the northern province of Hòa Bình’s Mai Châu District yesterday afternoon.

Hà Nội Police are investigating local media reports that most police patrol bicycles are in mothballs in police stations in the Nam Từ Liêm, Hà Đông and Long Biên districts.

State officials say the implementation of the Social Insurance Law, which went into effect at the beginning of the year, has made matters complicated.

At a workshop yesterday in Hà Nội, a representative from the World Bank (WB) said Việt Nam should have a comprehensive and strategic assessment of the problem. It should fine-tune plans on using water resources.

The northern Bắc Ninh Province and Thailand’s King Prajadhipok’s Institute (KPI) exchanged experiences in socio-economic development during a meeting in the province yesterday.

The Supreme People's Procuracy yesterday indicted nine former officials of VN Pharma on charges of smuggling and creating counterfeit documents to import medicines.

Police in HCM City yesterday said the drug criminal investigation department (PC47) has smashed a large drug trafficking ring the city.

Television and radio stations in the country are no longer allowed to partner to produce news and political programmes, according to a new governmental regulation that took effect yesterday.

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Deputy Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the northern Hòa Bình Province Police to find out the cause of an accident that killed three people in Mai Châu District.

The Vietnamese government is actively implementing the Programme of Action to promote the application and development of information technology to meet the requirements of sustainable development and international integration.

Police in the central Nghệ An Province said they arrested a suspect for trafficking marijuana in Thái Hoà Town yesterday morning.

Professor Lý Chánh Trung died in HCM City at the age of 88.

While the Internet, mobile phones and other digital technologies are spreading rapidly throughout the developing world, the anticipated digital dividends of higher growth, more jobs, and better public services have fallen short of expectation.

Vietnamese youth are struggling to find jobs. Some have found jobs but their incomes are not high, according to Nguyễn Đắc Vinh, Politburo member, First Secretary of Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union (HCMYU).