Việt Nam News

We were often excited to have him joining the Việt Nam News founding anniversary celebrations every June, but not any more. Nguyễn Công Khuyến, the founding father, former editor-in-chief of the newspaper, took his final breath on Friday evening, aged 86.

Travelling across Gia Lai Province on her Honda Cub 50, Twelfth-grader Lê Ánh Thùy Trang makes it her mission to help others.

The rainy season has arrived early in HCM City and its neighbouring provinces, helping breed mosquitoes and causing a high risk of dengue fever outbreaks, doctors said.

Đặng Hồng Phúc was one of the first large-scale rabbit breeders in Chợ Gạo District, in the Mekong Delta province of Tiền Giang, turning to them after failing to make ends meet in raising other livestock. 

As many as 600 high school students and 95 teachers in Ngô Quyền District, the northern port city of Hải Phòng, will be equipped with information technology skills in a project that kicked off on Friday.

Hà Nội is moving towards a smart, high-tech and sustainable agriculture that could adapt to climate change.

Authorities in Trà Vinh Province are trying to link up companies and farmers growing organic coconuts for mutual benefit. 

The HCM City Department of Transport wants toll to be collected from cars entering the traffic-clogged inner districts as a means to reduce gridlock and pollution.

Cases were reported in 59 out of 63 provinces and cities across the country.

Tourists and tourist activities will no longer be allowed on Bình Ba Island and Hòn Chút islet of Bình Hưng Island, in the south-central coastal city of Cam Ranh, to ensure the safety and security of the Cam Ranh military base, according to a notice from the local government.

The National Reunification Day (April 30) commemoration this year will see HCM City organise ground-breaking ceremonies for several housing projects.

The HCM City Department of Transport has updated transport plans for until 2040.

Việt Nam's law on religion is consistent with international conventions that Việt Nam has signed, creating favourable conditions for religious organisations to operate in accordance with the Constitution and laws, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Vũ Chiến Thắng stated.

Since the end of the war about 800,000 tonnes of mines and bombs are estimated to remain on Việt Nam soil, claiming thousands of casualties every year. In hard-hit Quảng Trị Province, an all-women emergency response team under project 'Restoring the Environment and Neutralising the Effects of the War' (RENEW) are putting their own lives at risk to keep the community safe.

Việt Nam hopes other countries and territories will simplify entry rules for Vietnamese travellers to boost economic recovery and people’s movement, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Lê Thị Thu Hằng.

Innovative and business-driven solutions to reduce food waste are critical to enhancing sustainability and reducing environmental impact, said Mark Tattlesall, the deputy ambassador of Australia to Việt Nam, in a workshop on food waste on Wednesday. 

Locals in Hội An City, central Quảng Nam Province, are used to seeing the old man with a trolley walking along the roads and beaches every day to pick up rubbish. He has become something of a local celebrity.