Việt Nam News

A third death has been confirmed following an accident yesterday in Quảng Ngãi Province.

An eldercare product that warms feet and improves blood circulation made by a team of students from HCM City University of Technology won first prize at an investor-style pitch competition at the "Maker to Entrepreneur: Venture Demo Day" held on November 22 in HCM City.

Sasaki Associates Inc, a US architecture and design solution provider, won first prize at an awards ceremony held on November 23 in an international competition on planning concepts for interactive and innovative urban areas in HCM City's eastern side (districts 2, 9 and Thủ Đức).

HCM City plans to tighten management of public lands and apply information technology to increase the city’s revenues, a city official said yesterday at a meeting.

The restructuring and streamlining of administrative apparatus and preparing the budget for the reformed salary project are key to wage reform.

Breeding aquatic species in mangrove forests in Kiên Giang Province’s An Biên and An Minh districts has increased the income of households that have been allocated forestland.

The Ministry of Construction will organise an inspection on the use and management of maintenance funds at residential buildings in HCM City and Hà Nội beginning next year.

While there is much more data than ever before and digital technologies are growing very fast, there is a huge shortage of human resources, experts have told an ongoing conference at the Hoa Sen University in HCM City.

The south-central province of Bình Thuận, the country’s largest dragon fruit producer, is expanding cultivation of dragon fruit under Vietnamese and global Good Agricultural Practices (VietGAP and GlobalGAP) standards.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a nationwide foreign language programme for State workers from 2019-30.

Vietnamese lawmakers agreed with the Government’s proposal to raise benefit amounts for people who have rendered meritorious services to the revolution and expand the scope of those eligible.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has asked the Ministry of Transport to report on the progress of the implementation of automated non-stop toll collection on build-operation-transfer (BOT) highways to the Prime Minister.

Two pregnant women in Đà Nẵng have died and one is in critical condition after receiving injections of an anaesthetic for caesarean section at the city’s Women’s Hospital, but the three new-born babies were saved.

The central province of Phú Yên has called for the World Bank’s provision of official development assistance (ODA) to support the implementation of four projects with a total investment of about US$70 million.

The event is an opportunity for NA deputies, members of provincial People’s Councils and People’s Committees and experts to exchange ideas on a comprehensive child development policy, she said.

Dao ethnic man Triệu Tài Cao has devoted his life to nurturing more than 30ha of precious ironwood trees by arterial road 279 which connects northern mountainous provinces.

Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are growing more new flower varieties for the Tết (Lunar New Year) festival, which falls on January 25.

Mobile phone users nationwide have long been plagued with spam text messages and calls, prompting the Government to step in, reported Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper.