The Hanoi People's Council for the term 2021 - 2026 on May 20 agreed to spend 23.5 trillion VND (over 1 billion USD) from the city budget for the Ring Road No. 4 project. Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, chairman of the Hanoi People's Council, speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA) The council also discussed the allocation and adjustment of the...

Vietnam is joining common efforts to restore the ecosystems in response to International Day for Biological Diversity 2022 themed “Building a shared future for all life”. Van Long Wetland Nature Reserve (Photo: VNA) Currently, the risk of biodiversity degradation and ecosystem imbalance remains high, directly affecting food security, and driving people to the risk of poverty, genetic resource depletion,...

‘Public-Private Partnership for sustainable healthcare transformation’ was the main topic of a conference organised by Dau tu (Investment) newspaper in Hanoi on May 18. A panel discussion at the conference on strengthening ‘Public-Private Partnership for sustainable healthcare transformation’ in Hanoi on May 18. (Photo: VNA) Opening the event, the newspaper's editor-in-chief Le Trong Minh said that Vietnam's health...

Former Deputy Health Minister Truong Quoc Cuong was given four years in jail in the first-instance trial of the case relating to the trading of counterfeit medicine labelled as Health 2000 Canada; lack of responsibilities causing serious consequences; and abuse of positions and power while on duty, which took place in HCM City, some other localities and at the...

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc presents Ho Chi Minh Awards in Science and Technology to authors (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – President Nguyen Xuan Phuc presented the Ho Chi Minh Awards in Science and Technology to 49 authors involved in two outstanding projects in the field of military-defence. The projects have been developed by the Military Telecommunications & Industry Corporation...

Late President Ho Chi Minh was not only a beloved leader of the Vietnamese people, but his life and career also left good impressions on many international friends and won their hearts. Sandip Hor, Vice President of the Foreign Correspondents’ Association in Australia, in a photo near President Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum in Hanoi during a visit to Vietnam...

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the inauguration of a martyr memorial temple in the northern province of Dien Bien’s Dien Bien Phu city. President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and other delegates cut the cut the ribbon to inaugurate a temple dedicated to martyrs in the northern province of Dien Bien on May 18 (Photo: VNA) The temple commemorates soldiers...

On the occasion of the 132nd birth anniversary of late President Ho Chi Minh (May 19, 1890-2022), the Vietnamese Embassy in Mexico has organised a flower offering ceremony, while a Republic of Korea (RoK) famous writer talked about his research on the late leader. Representatives of the Vietnamese community in Mexico next to the statue of President Ho Chi...

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc paid tribute to fallen soldiers resting at the A1 National Cemetery in the northern border province of Dien Bien during his working trip to the province on May 17-18. President Nguyen Xuan Phuc (second from right) talks to war soldiers in Dien Bien. (Photo: VNA) Built in 1958, the cemetery is the resting place of...

Prof. Dr. Yang Dao, a H’mong man who has lived in the US for years, said he was lucky to meet President Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam and was impressed by the late President’s ideology of solidarity between ethnic groups. Prof. Dr. Yang Dao at the meeting with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in the US (Photo: VNA) Yang...