The Central Rural Power Project Management Board--in co-operation with the HCM City-based SolarBK company--will start construction of a solar power system on An Bình islet of Lý Sơn Island next month.

QUẢNG NAM – Several residents of Điện Nam Trung in Quảng Nam Province on Wednesday blocked Provincial Road 607 to protest the constant movement of heavy, noisy construction trucks.

Việt Nam Social Insurance (VSI) has agreed to share with the Ministry of Health (MoH) personal infomation database of more than 24 million households.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has proposed that the Government choose a Japanese company as a consultant contractor to implement the planning of underground parking stations in the city.

Initial statistics from the 30 districts and townships of the capital city show that Hanoians are taller by two to three cm compared to 10 years ago.

 Some 15 per cent of students from primary and high schools in HCM City suffer from hypertension due to obesity, being overweight and physically inactive.

The People’s Court of Thủ Dầu Một City on Wednesday sentenced Ngô Tiến Thảo, 30, to five years imprisonment for violating regulations on safely operating electricity works.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) just required a halt of all sand mining operations in the Dầu Tiếng lake, the largest reservoir in the country.

Due to insufficient management, hundreds of hectares of forest in Gia Lai Province have been illegally converted to domestic housing and agricultural land, Vietnam News Agency reported.