Ha Long City in northern Quang Ninh Province is the first city to use a mobile app to interact with local people, the provincial Department of Information and Communication has said.

As the amount of rubbish continues to rise each year, HCM City authorities are exploring ways to improve the services of the thousands of private garbage collectors operating in the city.

Ha Noi Department of Natural Resources and Environment has decided to set up an interdisciplinary inspection team to review housing development projects which have not been granted certificates of land use rights, house and land-attached assets.

More than 100 trees that cause a stink in Hanoi during autumn are being cut down, a local has said official.

Vietnam won the most medals at the HCM City Open International Tracks and Field, which closed on Friday.

Vietnam pocketed two golds in the third day of competition at the 11th ASEAN Schools Games which is ongoing in Semerang, Indonesia.

On Thursday afternoon at the one-floor house of Nguyen Thi Lien’s family in Nghe An Province’s Nghi Loc District, things were a little more crowded than usual.

HCM City authorities have promised that the VND10trn (US$430.8m) anti-flooding project will be operational by mid-2020 if everything goes smoothly.

The 14th meeting of the Bali Process Ad Hoc Group (AHG) Senior Officials will take place in the central city of Da Nang from July 22-23, according to the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry.

Experts have expressed concern as younger Vietnamese are increasingly suffering from strokes.

Vietnamese coach Park Hang-seo has called up 26 players for Southeast Asian Games’ three day practice meeting.

The People’s Committee of HCM City is taking measures to restrict groundwater exploitation, which has led to increased water pollution, flooding and subsidence.

Thousands of kilometers of electrical and telecommunications cables have been buried underground in HCM City as part of a project that began nearly 10 years ago.

Vietnam is striving to achieve its goal of welcoming 17.5 – 18 million international tourists by the end of 2019, a year earlier than scheduled.

Ministry urged to be pioneer in economic reform

Vietnam recorded 224 persons dead and missing and economic losses of $859.5 million in natural disasters in 2018, according to the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy attended a ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), calling on this movement to continue taking the lead in promoting the adherence to the UN Charter and international law.

The US Department of State on (DoS) has expressed concern over reports that China is hampering other countries’ oil and gas activities in the East Sea, and said its acts threaten regional peace and security.

Nhan Dan Online introduces photos about the houses on the sea, the creativity, determination and courageous sacrifice of naval soldiers on the rig-house.

For more than 17 years, surgeon Robert Gordon Veith has travelled more than 10,000 kilometres from his home in Seattle, the US, to Vietnam.