Politburo member and Secretary of HCM City’s Party Committee Đinh La Thăng has assigned the contractor of the city’s tidal flood control project to complete its construction by April 30, 2018.

Officials of HCM City’s Culture, Sport and Tourism Department on Saturday welcomed the first foreigner entering Việt Nam on an e-visa, Richard Kenneth Wilson of the UK, at the Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport. Wilson was one of 40 foreigners receiving an electronic visa under a two-year pilot programme launched on February 1 for citizens of 40 countries.

President Trần Đại Quang on Saturday urged the country’s education authorities to focus on developing a high quality work force and to train “global citizens”, especially in information and nano technology, automation, telecommunications and the use of new materials and energy.

Steep rise in the number of accidents occurring at railway crossings as well as accident scale during the Tết (Lunar New Year) holidays has prompted Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình to issue an urgent message calling for actions taken.

State healthcare workers are not allowed to register as heads of private hospitals or medical facilities established and operated following the enactment of the Enterprise Law and Co-operative Law, according to a newly-issued Government decree.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has asked four central provinces to provide regular reports on marine environment quality.

Fishermen in central Việt Nam netted a bumper catch during the first days of the Lunar Year of Rooster, earning them profits due to high market prices.

Hoàng Thị Mọn has been providing family planning advice for the residents of Bắc Lanh Chang Village for more than two decades. For 20 of the 22 years that Mọn has been on the job in the northern province of Bắc Kạn, none of the couples in her commune, most of them members of the Tày ethnic minority, have given birth to a third child.

Director of Việt Nam National University-HCM City, Huỳnh Thành Đạt, talks to chinhphu.vn about the role of universities in encouraging students to start their own business and promoting startups