Quang Nam (VNA) – A conference was held in Tam Ky city, Quang Nam province, on September 7 to review the 10-year implementation of the national target programme on new-style rural area building in the south-central coastal and the Central Highlands regions. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong speaks at the conference in Tam Ky city,...

Hanoi (VNA) – The Investigation Police Agency under the Ministry of Public Security has proposed the People’s Procuracy to lodge prosecution against 21 people involved in the high-profile corruption case relating to Phan Van Anh Vu (alias “Vu Nhom”), the agency said on September 4. Tran Van Minh (left) and Van Huu Chien (Source: tuoitre.vn) Prominent among the accused...

Hanoi (VNA) – The national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has been awarded a foreign air carrier permit from the US Department of Transportation, according to the fightglobal.com. Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Fightglobal reported on September 3 that the airline is authorized to operate flights between Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi to several destinations in the US as...

HCM City (VNA) – President of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) Nguyen Dinh Khang on September 4 called on the World Federation of Trade Union (WFTU) to continue its companionship along with its development. At the talks (Source: congdoan.vn) During his talks with WFTU President Mzwandile Michael Makwayiba in Ho Chi Minh City, Khang said over the...

(LSO) - During the 81-day fight at the Quang Tri ancient citadel in 1972, thousands of Vietnamese soldiers unyieldingly fought to the last breath of their lives to safeguard every inch of the Fatherland’s soil. Under the enemy’s bombs and bullets that rained down regardless of day or night, a large number of soldiers, hundreds of whom came from...

Hanoi (VNA) – Two former Ministers of Information and Communications, Nguyen Bac Son and his successor Truong Minh Tuan, have been accused of receiving a large amount of bribes in the case of MobiFone purchasing 95 percent of shares of the Audio Visual Global JSC (AVG). Nguyen Bac Son (L) and Truong Minh Tuan (Source: portal of the Ministry...

(LSO) - The Party Committee and the Border Guard High Command of Lang Son province have built a model of civil works, which helps ensure living conditions for locals and contributes to promoting new-style rural area building movement in the locality, as well as to enhancing solidarity between the people and the army, ensuring political security, social order and...

Prague (VNA) – The Vietnamese Centre at the SAPA Trade Centre in Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic, is holding a free Vietnamese language course for Vietnamese children in the country. At the launching ceremony of the course (Photo: VNA) The course aims to encourage the studying of Vietnamese among the Vietnamese community in the European country,...

Hanoi (VNA) - A total of 57 people were killed on the roads during the National Day holidays, according to traffic officials. One people was seriously injured and three automobiles damaged in an accident at 3.30pm on August 31 in the northern province of Yen Bai (Photo: VNA) Over the three-day holidays from August 31 to September 2,...

Hanoi (VNA) - Storm Podul, the fourth hitting the East Sea, left three people killed and four others injured as of 3 pm on September 1. A tree fallen on a car at Hoang Hoa Tham street in Hanoi during the storm (Photo: VNA) According to the standing office of the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and...