The Đa Phước Waste Treatment Complex causes the foul odour that plagues some southern districts of HCM City, the head of the office of HCM City People’s Committee, Võ Văn Hoan, said yesterday.

Agricultural credit policy in rural areas of Việt Nam is inadequate so that 86 per cent of ethnic minority farmers in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) region are borrowing “black” credit to develop production.

The central city of Đà Nẵng in co-operation with experts from the Japan Port Consultants company and the Overseas Coastal Area Development Institute of Japan have begun a pre-feasibility study to make Liên Chiểu Port a cargo port.

Despite smoking bans in public areas, many smokers ignore the prohibition. Non-smokers in crowded places, with children and the elderly present, still have to breathe in cigarette smoke. This has been blamed on punishments that are “not tough enough” by authorities.

Vietnamese women spend over five hours a doing so-called “no-name” work such as cooking, cleaning and childcare - about 2-2.5 hours more than men.

The hand, foot, and mouth disease season has barely begun in HCM City but hospitals are already seeing a rush of patients, many of them severely affected, according to paediatrics hospitals.

The first HATCH! Fair on start-up development will be held at the Grand Palace Convention Centre on October 7 and 8 in HCM City.

Flower Market

A Việt Nam Red Cross (VNRC) campaign has helped over 74,000 households overcome consequences of a drought and saline intrusion in the Central, Central Highland and Cửu Long Delta regions.