Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường has ordered provinces and cities to focus on ensuring farmers raise shrimp using proper breeding processes and advanced techniques.

The central power corporation, under the Việt Nam Electricity (EVN), has debuted the first solar power system for three junior secondary schools in the central provincial districts of Duy Xuyên, Đại Lộc and Quế Sơn, providing a ‘green’ energy and money saving from power consumption.

A plane on the way from Hà Nội to Đà Lạt City had to make an emergency landing at Đà Nẵng International Airport as a male passenger fainted at 10,000m in the air.

La economía de Vietnam está creciendo rápidamente y los inversores locales y extranjeros aumentan su participación en este país del Sudeste Asiático, según la página web alemana boerse-online.de.

Malasia registró este domingo un total de cinco mil 298 nuevos casos del COVID-19, entre ellos, cinco mil 295 contagiados por transmisión local y tres importados, informó el Ministerio de Salud del país sudesteasiático.

Alrededor de 1,5 millones de mascarillas médicas se entregaron a las provincias fronterizas y localidades vietnamitas que registran nuevos casos de coronavirus, en el marco del proyecto “Máscaras compasivas”.

Las autoridades de la provincia altiplana de Gia Lai informaron que hasta el momento la localidad ha registrado cinco casos con resultados positivos con la pandemia del COVID- 19, luego de su primera prueba de la enfermedad.

 Two Vietnamese tourists were found stabbed to death in their room at the Circus Circus Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip early Friday morning (US time).

Current and former HCM City leaders and more than 2,000 Buddhist believers, monks and nuns on Sunday participated in a commemoration service for Bodhisattva Thích Quảng Đức, who set himself on fire 55 years ago to protest the repression of Buddhists by the US-backed Sài Gòn administration.  

Children with autism spectrum disorders in HCM City and neighbouring provinces competed against each other in running and swimming races, tug of war, and other sports at an event held last Saturday in the city by the Việt Nam Autism Network and the city Department of Culture and Sports.

They promised dangerous, and boy did they deliver.  

A plan to turn a lake into a nature reserve has hit a snag due to blood clam farming.

The Ministry of Health has issued a number of recommendations in light of a recent incident in which some 16 patients, their relatives and health officials at Từ Dũ Hospital in HCM City on Saturday tested positive for swine flu (A/H1N1), according to the city’s Preventive Health Centre.

Saying goodbye to your pets is not easy, but what if it will take them to a better place, beyond what you can offer?

 A cooperation agreement on child drowning prevention has been signed between the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) and the Bloomberg philanthropy.

The HCM City Traffic Safety Committee and traffic police have called for making penalties for speeding more severe at a meeting held to review a two-month traffic campaign that had run until March 31.

A charity programme called Giving Mother’s Love has helped turn into reality some of the dreams of children living in 11 social welfare centres and shelters in HCM City.  

A low-pressure system near the Hoàng Sa (Paracel) archipelago is likely to become a storm in the East Sea, according to the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

Connecting Việt Nam’s biggest city with its southern provinces, two major highways going through HCM City pose several risks of traffic accidents that spans from drivers’ attitude to cattle running and stubble burning.

Big cities like Hà Nội and HCM City have few parks and playgrounds because many plots earmarked for this purpose were being used for parking, business or other projects, reported Lao Động (Labour) Newspaper.