Việt Nam News

The northern province of Quảng Ninh will strive to promote green growth and become a good model for other provinces to follow, said Đặng Huy Hậu, vice chairman of Quảng Ninh People’s Committee.

Police in Hải Phòng City have reported that they just busted a case of illegal trading of value-added tax (VAT) invoices, with total sales of over VNĐ2.2 trillion (US$94.8 million).

She made the statement at a conference in Hà Nội yesterday to announce the World Bank (WB)’s study on factors impacting socio-economic development in ethnic minority regions in Việt Nam.

The unfolding revolution in internet and information and communication technologies offers an array of innovative and dynamic opportunities to unleash the potential of women and girls, a senior development official has said.

In a statement released Thursday evening, the Ministry of Public Security of Việt Nam said UK authorities had confirmed the 39 migrants found in the refrigerated container on October 23 on an industrial estate in Grays, Essex in the south of England were from Việt Nam.

Typhoon Nakri, the sixth tropical storm forecast to hit Việt Nam this year, is likely to bring heavy rain to central and south-central regions.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hoà Bình asked the Ministry of Transport and Hà Nội People’s Committee to carefully study the requests of cafe owners along the train streets of Điện Biên Phủ, Trần Phú and Phùng Hưng, a hit among tourists to the city.

A private health clinic in Đà Nẵng has been fined VNĐ150 million (more than US$6,400) for causing environmental pollution.

A project to implement automatic non-stop toll collection may be delayed as the investor fears its deployment may increase the risk of bankruptcy.

The labour ministry has proposed to make Vietnamese Family Day on June 28 a national holiday.

The granting of licences for internet-based news aggregator websites will be temporarily suspended from November, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC).

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh is seeking to develop quality seeds for its key agricultural produce to improve their quality and competitiveness.

Vehicles without electronic tags will be fined if they try to drive through automated toll stations without paying if a suggestion put forward by the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN) is approved by the Ministry of Public Security’s Traffic Police Department.

As well as patrolling the region, the guards have another responsibility, caring for orphans and disadvantaged children.

The HCM City Labour Federation and trade unions plan to provide free bus, train and flight tickets to 35,500 disadvantaged workers to visit home for Tết (Lunar New Year) in late January next year.

The Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) region has replaced 118,202ha of old coffee trees by planting new ones or grafting old coffee trees with young sprouts to improve yield since 2014, or 98.5 per cent of the total area to be replanted in 2014-20.

The Cửu Long Corporation for Investment Development and Project Management of Infrastructure (CIPM) has asked the Ministry of Transport to be responsible for the Hà Tiên-Rạch Giá-Bạc Liêu expressway project.

The Board of Directors of the Đà River Clean Water Corporation has decided to dismiss the general director and legal representative of the Đà River Water Investment JSC Nguyễn Văn Tốn after a recent polluted water scandal that led to a severe shortage of clean water for more than one million city residents.