Việt Nam is reviewing and updating the country’s carbon emission target to better comply with the Paris agreement on climate change and prepare for the global assessment later this year.

Doctors at HCM City’s Chợ Rẫy Hospital said yesterday (April 20) that they successfully performed organ transplants for five persons using organs from a brain-dead donor.

Construction on the Vĩnh Tân 4 thermal power plant in the southern province of Bình Thuận is on schedule and has met both international and Vietnamese standards on environmental protection, announced Electricity of Việt Nam (EVN).

People in the capital have made preparations for the upcoming four-day (from April 28 - May 1) holiday celebrating the Reunification Day (April 30) and Labour Day (May 1), and many of them will be traveling. Many tourism companies are reporting a 20 per cent increase in bookings as compared to non-holiday days.

The central province of Bình Thuận received 1.35 million tourists in the first quarter of the year, a jump of 14 per cent  compared to the same period last year.

Saigon Co.op, the owner of Co.opmart supermarket on April 17 broke ground for a store in Bình Thuận Province.

Hundreds of thousands of farmers in the 22 provinces and cities from the south-central province of Bình Thuận to the southernmost province of Cà Mau have been provided guidance in the safe use of plant protection chemicals through a programme begun in 2012.

Tourism officials in the tourist triangle of HCM City, the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng and coastal province of Bình Thuận have agreed to expand a tourism co-operation programme to jointly develop unique inter-regional packages.

The Việt Nam Administration of Forestry (VAF) has urged localities nationwide to take drastic measures to prevent and control forest fires, given the hot and dry weather in the country.