Representatives of NGOs, corporations, government agencies, and community plant harvester consortiums took part in TRAFFIC’s Green Growth workshop in Hà Nội on Thursday to discuss the economic and environmental benefits of sustainable sourcing.

Lê Thái Sơn, 31, from the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc, has been included on this year’s list of Innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review for managing to increase optical fibre transmission by 50 per cent.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the central province of Quảng Trị signed an agreement on communication cooperation in Đông Hà City on Thursday.

Đà Nẵng will speed up the construction of key water plants – the Cầu Đỏ, Hòa Trung and Hòa Liên – in order to supply 250,000 cubic metres of clean water each day by 2019-2020.

Waste collection in Hà Nội remains a major problem for authorities and sanitation companies.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc recently urged the Ministry of Transport to upgrade damaged build-operate-transfer (BOT) expressways as soon as possible to ensure the safety of people and vehicles.

Requiring people who want to register for permanent residency in HCM City to rent a floor area of at least 20sq.m is too high, a conference held by the Vietnamese Fatherland Front to discuss the issue has heard.

Closer collaboration among stakeholders is needed to improve access to innovative medicines to combat cancer in ASEAN member countries, experts have said.

Many jujube farmers in Ninh Thuận Province, the country’s largest producer of the fruit, are improving yields and quality by using nets to cover their orchards and protect them from pests.