Vietnam

HANOI, Mar 24 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam rejected U.S. human rights report as based on false information.

“Vietnam feels sorry that the 2022 human rights report, by the U.S. Department of State, has made biased comments, based on false information about the real situation in Vietnam,” deputy spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pham Thu Hang, said, at a regular press briefing in Hanoi yesterday.

The spokeswoman reaffirmed Vietnam’s consistent policy, to protect and promote human rights.

HANOI, Mar 10 (NNN-VNA) – Fertiliser prices in Vietnam are falling, as cost of natural gas and farmers’ demand decrease, local media reported today.

The decline in prices is considered a boon for farmers, who are able to reap the benefits, however, it leaves production enterprises grappling with challenges, the local newspaper, Vietnam News reported.

The market has continued to witness a sharp drop in prices, with urea fertiliser currently at its lowest price point in over two years, the newspaper said.

HANOI, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Vo Van Thuong, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), was elected as Vietnam's new president on Thursday, Vietnam News Agency reported.

The country's top legislature convened a special meeting and elected Thuong as the new president with an approval rate of 98.38 percent, according to Vietnam News Agency.

HANOI, March 1 (Reuters) - Vietnam's Communist Party has nominated Vo Van Thuong as the country's new president, two party sources said on Wednesday, following the sudden forced resignation in January of his predecessor as part of a sweeping anti-corruption campaign.

Thuong, 52, is the youngest member of the party's Politburo, the country's top decision-making body, and is widely regarded as being close to General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam's most powerful figure.

HANOI, Feb 21 (NNN-VNA) – Three people died and 17 others were injured, in a crash between a sleeper bus and a truck, in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam early today.

The accident took place at around 1:30 a.m. on National Highway 1A in Tam Anh Nam Commune, Nui Thanh District, Quang Nam Province, when the sleeper bus carrying 30 passengers smashed into the rear end of a brick-loaded truck that was parked on the roadside.

HANOI, Feb 14 (NNN-VNA) – Eight people died and several other people were injured, in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam, after a tractor-trailer and a 16-passenger van crashed into each other, early this morning.

HANOI, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam exported wood and wood products worth some 1.1 billion U.S. dollars in January, down 29.8 percent year on year, according to the country's General Statistics Office on Tuesday.

The decrease was caused mainly by a shortage of orders, according to Do Xuan Lap, chairman of the Vietnam Timber and Forest Products Association.

Global inflation has had negative impacts on demand and orders in the wood industry in year-end period last year and early this year, local online newspaper VnEconomy cited Lap as saying.

HANOI, Jan 27 (NNN-VNA) – As many as 152 traffic accidents occurred during the Lunar New Year holiday in Vietnam, killing 89 people and injuring 111 others, according to the country’s Traffic Police Department, yesterday.

The number of traffic accidents and deaths during the seven-day holiday decreased seven percent and three percent respectively, while the number of injuries increased by nearly eight percent, compared with the same period last year, according to the department.

HANOI, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) -- Vietnamese Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan was named as the acting president on Wednesday, a day after former President Nguyen Xuan Phuc resigned, the official Vietnam News Agency reported.

Vuong Dinh Hue, chairman of Vietnam's National Assembly (NA), signed an announcement on behalf of the NA's Standing Committee about the new position of Xuan during an extraordinary meeting of the 15th NA held on Wednesday, it said.

HANOI, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has resigned after the ruling Communist Party blamed him for "violations and wrongdoing" by officials under his control, the government said on Tuesday, in a major escalation of the country's anti-graft campaign.

Phuc, a former prime minister widely credited with accelerating pro-business reforms, held the largely ceremonial post of president since 2021 and is the highest-ranking official targeted by the party's sweeping corruption crackdown.