Việt Nam News

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.

A 66km two-lane road section of the La Sơn-Túy Loan Highway connecting La Sơn junction in Thừa Thiên Huế and Hoà Liên commune of Đà Nẵng is to be put into operation in late April

The Ministry of Education and Training has provided more details on the announcement that history will no longer be a compulsory subject for high school students in the 2022-2023 academic year.

National parks in two central provinces of Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh have strengthened measures to protect wildlife as well as maintain their ecosystems, contributing to environmental protection.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh on Thursday praised the results of the National Target Programme for New Rural Development and the National Target Programme for Sustainable Poverty Reduction in the 2021-25 period.

The Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission convened its 14th meeting from April 19-20, discussing and announcing conclusions on a number of issues, including signs of violations seen in the Standing Board of the Saigon Co.op’ s Party Committee during the 2015-2020 tenure. 

A total of 12,029 new COVID-19 cases was recorded in Việt Nam on Thursday.

A serious fire has killed five people in a family living in a house on Phạm Ngọc Thạch Street in Hà Nội earlier this morning.

The vaccination of children aged between five and 11 years old have been carried out safely at many localities over the past few days and no incidents have been recorded so far.

Lê Viết Thuận, a disabled person with congenital cerebral palsy, is trying his best to help others in the same situation, spreading goodwill wherever he goes.

Supermarkets and shopping centres providing single-use plastic bags to customers will be fined from 2026. 

International tourists to Đà Nẵng will be presented with Vinaphone 4G data SIM cards upon arrival at the airport as part of the central city’s “Enjoy Danang” programme

Việt Nam recorded seven COVID-related fatalities on Wednesday, the first time the daily death toll fell to single-digits since July last year