The General Department of Customs has asked all local customs departments to take bold measures to prevent the smuggling of goods by air, which is expected to rise around Tết.

More than 7,000 children and teenagers will receive training on skills of self-protection, prevention against abuse, trafficking and exploitation.

The central and city and the Ireland Embassy in Việt Nam has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on high quality human resource education, management skills for the city’s personnel and start-up programme for students in the central city.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will soon officially issue a circular to prohibit the use of cysteamine - a substance used in animal husbandry.

The HCM City Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has called on all related agencies to check the high-tide controlling culvert system is in good shape to prevent unexpected occurrences during Tết (the Lunar New Year).

Workers have begun dismantling a water music project in the centre of this northern coastal city after more than a year of ineffective operations and being criticised for wasteful expenditure.

Government officials have announced that mineral exploitation will be more tightly controlled under a new regulation coming into effect January 15.

The Ministries of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Information and Communications and Việt Nam Journalists Association, on Thursday, launched a writing contest on poverty reduction.

The HCM City Centre for Human Resource Forecast and Labour Information foresees a mere 3 per cent shortage in worker numbers after Tết (the Lunar New Year).