Việt Nam News

Việt Nam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) signed a memorandum of understanding on co-operation in Hà Nội on August 28.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has accepted Đồng Nai Province’s proposal to be the State authority to implement the US$310 million Cát Lái Bridge project, which will link HCM City’s District 2 with Đồng Nai and Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu provinces.

Thousands of people attended the Hà Nội Innovation Summit 2019, which opened on Thursday at the National Convention Centre.

Đà Nẵng has won an Asia-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation (Asocio) Smart City Award for its outstanding initiatives of a smart city during the Asocio Smart City Summit in Bangkok, Thailand.

The healthcare system of traditional Vietnamese medicine has been expanded, with all 63 provinces and cities nationwide having traditional medicine hospitals.

HCM City plans to spend hundreds of billions of đồng on building more than 100 reservoirs to store rainwater and control flooding by 2020 under a flood-control programme.

She said Việt Nam has faced numerous challenges, like high public spending on healthcare, standing at 40 per cent.

The HCM City’s Food Safety Management Board will strengthen the inspection for food supplement production companies.

The 4th International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development (GEOTEC HANOI) will be held in November in Hà Nội.

Hundreds of households in Mai Thủy Commune, Lệ Thủy District, have had to use unhygienic water from wells and the Kiến Giang River.

According to the indictment of the People’s Court of central Quảng Bình Province, Xeng Vang, 24 years old, residing in Laos’ Bolikhamsai Province was hired by a Vietnamese man named Hạng A Chinh, 23 years old, residing in Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông to carry drugs from Hà Tĩnh Province to Đà Nẵng City.

Total funding for the project exceeded VNĐ32 billion (US$1.4 million).

The allocation was announced on Wednesday to support more than 18,000 residents who suffered from heavy floods in early August from Đắk Lắk, Kiên Giang and Lâm Đồng provinces.

Teachers at schools in HCM City, especially kindergartens, have co-operated with health officials to clean and disinfect toys and the environment to ensure hygiene when a new academic year begins on September 5.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has revoked the licenses of two labour export companies for failing to meet labour export requirements.

The storm is moving westwards at 25km per hour and is expected to be located about 150km to the east of Nghệ An to Quảng Bình provinces by 1am of Friday, packing winds of 75-100km per hour.

Transportation, construction and cooking at home are among factors causing pollution both indoors and outdoors in Hà Nội.

Đỗ Hữu Hảo, President of the Việt Nam Union of Science and Technology talks to the newspaper Hải Quan (Customs) on the cost and effectiveness of energy saving.