Construction work on a road connecting Sóc Trăng City to a shrimp-rice farming area started, Trần Văn Chuyện, chairman of the provincial people’s committee, said Thursday.

The application of the economic watering model has helped increase productivity by 10-15 per cent and reduced the cost of labourers as well.

Overwhelming heat since early May seemed to signal a harsh and long summer this year. While many seek to hide from the heat in comfortable rooms cooled with fans or air conditioners, many workers dare not use too much electricity for the privilege. They are poor, and paying more for power than they should.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has predicted ten risks that could result in disasters including those related to fire, pollution, transport, health and nuclear power plants.

When the authorities of the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai decided to build the Ayun Hạ irrigation system in 2000, hundreds of local residents in Phú Thiện District’s Chư A Thai Commune were relocated to a new resettlement area.

The south-central province of Khánh Hòa is developing hubs for slaughterhouses to gradually move the current small, scattered ones that cause pollution.

Illegal mineral exploitation in Phú Quốc district in Kiên Giang province has defied the local government for many years, reported online newspaper vov.vn. Illegal exploitation has severely affected the district’s environment and risked public safety.

 The National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC), in co-ordination with the Honda Việt Nam Company, has launched a programme aimed at delivering 20,000 helmets to motorists across the country.

A campaign called Undetectable = Untransmittable was launched yesterday in HCM City to persuade people living with HIV to take antiretrovirals as prescribed by doctors to reduce the virus load in their body to undetectable levels so that they do not transmit it to their sexual partners.