There has been a 91 per cent reduction in the amount of goods controlled by the Ministry of Science and Technology inspected before customs clearance.

Retirement is the time for people to enjoy their lives, but a group of war veterans in the central province of Khánh Hòa want to devote their tgwilight years helping comrades in need. The veterans have set up a health clinic to provide free check-ups, health counselling and medicine to fellow veterans who lack health insurance cards or are victims of agent orange.

HCM City has approved the extension of the city’s first metro route, which links Bến Thành Market with Suối Tiên Theme Park in District 9, to the neighbouring provinces of Bình Dương and Đồng Nai.

The 10^th HCM City Book Fair will be held from March 19-25 at District 1’s Lê Văn Tám Park, according to the city’s Department of Information and Communication.

With suitable weather for a tropical plant which requires high humidity, Sơn La northern mountain province is becoming a good region for development of macadamia tree. The province is expected to gain a target of 1,000ha of macadamia tree by 2020.

More than 30 booths manned by 24 individuals and groups introduce more than 100 products made by young people at a start-up festival in Huế in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province yesterday.

Fifty percent of all communes across the country are expected to be recognised as new-style rural areas in 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) stated at a conference in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ on December 8.

Việt Nam must step up efforts to ensure 90 per cent of HIV-infected people will receive sustained antiretroviral (ARV) therapy by 2020, in line with the international UN target, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam said at a meeting of  National Committee for AIDS, Prostitution and Drug Prevention yesterday.

Lawyer Ngô Anh Tuấn has proposed implementing specific regulations on acts of child sexual abuse and lowering the age of criminal responsibility for such abusers from 18 to 16.