The HCM City Department of Science and Technology yesterday (June 19) began a contest that seeks to encourage individuals and organisations to come up with innovative technology ideas, products and solutions for the country’s socio-economic development.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc recently issued an instruction on tougher action against smuggling, commercial fraud and production of fake and low-quality goods.

The Ministry of Health has put forward a proposal to inoculate children against measles from the age of sixth months instead of the current ninth months.

It’s been three months since the last time Đinh Văn Tính, 52, had that pleasure of breathing in a puff of smoke from the traditional Vietnamese pipe tobacco that has become as familiar as rice meal for the last quarter of the decade.

Việt Nam wants to enhance co-operation with the international community to promote renewable energy, invest in new technologies and implement projects for environmental protection,  Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh said at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Conference on Climate Change Response held in Cần Thơ City yesterday (June 19).

HCM City has earmarked 665ha of land by 2020 to build new facilities for and upgrading hospitals so that they can cope with the relentless overcrowding, according to its Department of Health.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has launched a online map website featuring eroded sites along rivers and the coast in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta in an aim to reduce losses from the increasing number of landslides that have occurred in recent years.

Nearly 40 per cent of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) enterprises in Việt Nam are in shortage of employees and have struggled with recruiting new labourers, said an official of Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Moves to reform textbooks and the general education curriculum must be undertaken to reduce work overload among students, the Prime Minister said in an instruction.