Việt Nam News

"The sky keeps the most beautiful memories but the sky also took away my teammates, and my hands and legs. “But if I could choose again, I would still want to be a soldier and fly in the deep blue sky out there."

HCM City’s Department of Transport has sent a report to its People’s Committee on a plan to connect traffic between the City and Đồng Nai Province, including three new bridges - Cát Lái, Phú Mỹ II and Đồng Nai II.

Traffic accidents decreased sharply in the first six months this year compared to the same period last year, with accidents caused by drunk drivers down considerably.

In a recent interview with Việt Nam News reporter Vân Nguyễn, Associate Professor Dr Trần Thanh Tú, Director of International Centre, Vietnam National Children’s Hospital, talks about the changes in the epidemiology of acute respiratory infections post-COVID-19 and the treatment regimes in use for the disease.

First held in 2014, the Science Prize for Women underscores the importance of women’s contributions to improving society in sustainable ways through their expertise in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) research.

The Ministry of Transport (MoT) is collecting opinions on a draft decree on expiry date of railway locomotives and carriages, in which it is proposed to use out-of-date railway vehicles until the end of 2030.

Since the beginning of this year, Việt Nam has recorded approximately 40,000 cases of dengue fever, including eight fatalities. The outbreak is trending upward in many localities.

A Vietnamese student who won a bronze medal in the 2023 Genius Olympiad in June had his accolades rescinded after organisers found a blatant 86 per cent similarity between his submission and that of another student.

Many farmers in Bình Hà Village had to mortgage their cashew lands to black market creditors as debt payment and receive money to cover their living expenses. When the cashew harvesting season comes, these people have to work as hired labourers on their own land to earn money.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) delta province of Kiên Giang is banning the fishing of natural bivalve molluscs in its coastal waters for the rest of this year to protect their stocks.

The two new cities are poised to become science-technology and logistics centres of the region with total population of 4.45 million people by 2045.

With the project "Unburnt light ceramic materials from oyster shells and rice husks", a group of authors including Võ Nguyễn Thúy Hà, Phan Anh Quang and Lê Thị Thu Hà, who are students at Phú Bài High School in Hương Thủy Township of Thừa Thiên Huế Province, won First Prize for high school students at the 5th National Student Start-up Festival.

A recently approved National Assembly resolution that grants increased autonomy to HCM City would help address the numerous challenges it faces amid the financial crisis, a city official said.

Deputy PM Quang requested that plans and agenda must be carefully prepared before the upcoming working session with the European Commission's fourth inspection team, in order to remove the commission’s ‘yellow card’ warning against Vietnamese seafood exports by October 2023.

HCM City plans to focus on propagandising information to create a strong transformation, aiming to raise awareness and work toward a more robust approach to cybersecurity in State agencies, businesses and people’s day-to-day activities.

In June alone, economic sectors in the city employed more than 26,500 labourers and created nearly 12,000 new jobs, with most jobs in the areas of trade, services, and industrial production.

The investment is estimated at about VNĐ420 trillion (US$18 billion), mobilised from the State budget, non-budget capital and other legal capital sources.

Sand mining and the construction of hydropower dams that trap sediment from travelling downstream are primary factors contributing to rampant coastal and riverbank erosion in Việt Nam’s Mekong Delta region.