Việt Nam News

Delays to disbursement of official development assistance (ODA) for HCM City’s Metro Line 1 project were in danger of setting a bad precedent, and negatively affecting the implementation of other Japanese-funded projects in Việt Nam.

The southern province of Tây Ninh’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment has asked investors of industrial parks and economic zones to strictly implement regulations on waste water treatment.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Lê Hải An has died after falling from the eighth floor of the ministry’s headquarters in Hà Nội on Thursday morning, Vietnam News Agency reported.

The Ministry of Health has unveiled a roadmap for digitising patients’ records at hospitals and setting up smart hospitals, a conference heard in HCM City on Wednesday.

The HCM City Youth Union, in co-operation with the HCM City-based SolarBK company, has launched an off-grid solar power project to supply power for a radar station on the Thổ Chu Islands, off the coast of Kiên Giang Province.

The central province of Quảng Trị needs around VNĐ990 billion (US$42.8 million) by 2030 to handle erosion, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Directorate of Market Surveillance under the Ministry of Industry and Trade has instructed Hà Nội market watch to put a stop to rising prices of bottled water.

Heavy rain has submerged more than 5,000 houses and destroyed nearly 3,000ha of vegetables in the central province of Nghệ An, reported vietnamplus.vn.

The revised Labour Code is expected to be submitted to the National Assembly for approval this month. However, major changes to the law are still under discussion in an attempt to ensure gender equality and enhance the development of female workers.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Government and Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee Trương Hoà Bình yesterday said alcohol and drugs are to blame for many serious traffic accidents this year.

Construction of HCM City's second waste-to-energy plant began on Thursday at the Tây Solid Waste Treatment Complex in Củ Chi District.

In Việt Nam, one in three children under five is either undernourished or overweight, while worldwide, an alarmingly high number of children are suffering the consequences of poor diets and a food system that is failing them.

Lê Kim Anh, chairwoman of the Hà Nội Women’s Union, praised the women's efforts, creativity and talent, saying they had enriched themselves and the community.

A variety of solutions to improve recruitment and incentive policies for teachers were proposed by representatives from 24 districts at a recent conference on education universalisation and illiteracy eradication in HCM City, according to a report in Sài Gòn Giải Phóng (Liberated Sài Gòn) newspaper.

Thirty-two educators and government officials from seven countries in Southeast Asia are participating in a capacity-building workshop on fostering global citizenship for sustainable communities in Southeast Asia that opened on Tuesday in HCM City.

The area for rice farming in the Mekong Delta and Southeast Việt Nam should be reduced for the upcoming winter-spring rice season to lessen the negative impact of saline intrusion, according to the Department of Crop Production.

Central Nghệ An Province’s Health Department on Wednesday concluded that the cause of death for newborn twin girls after receiving a vaccine for hepatitis B, was congenital metabolic disorders.

A deal has been reached to move residents living near Nam Sơn Waste Treatment Complex and Nam Sơn rubbish dump.