HCM City has carried out drastic measures to ensure food safety and hygiene, but this is a long-term fight against unsafe food, said vice chairwoman of the city People’s Committee.

During the 2016-2020 period, HCM City will use VNĐ16.4 trillion (US$735 million) from the State budget, along with VNĐ24.2 trillion ($1.07 billion) from other financial resources to invest in phase 2 of a new rural area programme.

For the first time, poor farmers and those from ethnic minorities groups of central Quảng Trị Province have approached organic agriculture projects, helping them to get out of poverty and maintain their livelihoods.

Flooding due to heavy torrential rainfall has taken the lives of 13 people across the central region over the weekend amid fears of more rain this week. 

In an unprecedented show of love, gratitude and grief, thousands of Vietnamese citizens, expatriates and even tourists visited the Cuban embassy in Hà Nội to pay their last respects to Fidel Castro (1926-2016).

The Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s assistance to Việt Nam over the last twenty years helped to transform the poor, underdeveloped country into a middle-income one, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday.

The private sector is crucial to building a standardised vocational training system by 2020, thus improving the quality of human resources to regional and world standards, heard a conference in Hà Nội yesterday.

Significant progress has been achieved in understanding the molecular basis of cancer over the past 30 years, leading to new interventions suited to each patient, Professor Nguyễn Chấn Hùng, chairman of the Việt Nam Cancer Association, has said.

The important role of counselling in schools has been accepted by most stakeholders, including parents, teachers and administrators, but most secondary schools and high schools do not offer this service.