Việt Nam News

Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province plans to pour more investment in high-quality tourism projects in an effort to increase the length of tourists’ stays, according to Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, chairman of Việt Nam Tourism Association.

HCM City needs 148,000 skilled employees in key sectors this year, according to authorities.

Technical vocational education and training (TVET) institutes in HCM City plan to train students in green-growth fields that promote economic sustainability.

A significant increase in the number of students for the 2018-2019 academic year in HCM City is putting pressure on schools that lack a sufficient number of teachers and facilities, according to the city’s Department of Education and Training.

Vietnam has 64 million Facebook accounts. More than one-third of them belong to youth aged between 15 and 24. The numbers were announced at the conference “Building national network for child online safety” held in Hà Nội on Thursday.

The Government Inspectorate has instructed authorities in Hà Nội to investigate the city’s Urban Railway Management Board and French consultancy firm SYSTRA over delays to the Nhổn-Hà Nội Railway Station urban elevated rail project.

Hải Hòa Beach in Tĩnh Gia District in the central province of Thanh Hóa lacks facilities to ensure safety for swimmers and beach goers.

Ninh Thuận Province, the country’s largest grape producer, plans to expand cultivation of NH 01-152, its new grape variety, because of its excellent quality and other outstanding characters.   

A transnational drug trafficking ring was busted in HCM City on Thursday with the biggest ever haul of heroine seized by city police, the Public Security Ministry’s drug crime investigation unit reported yesterday.

As of this month, Yok Đôn National Park will no longer offer elephant riding for tourists visiting the Central Highland province of Đắk Lắk.

A Vietnamese woman who duped the authorities in the United Kingdom claiming she was a 16-year-old child has been jailed, after police discovered she was in fact a grown woman.

The People’s Committee of central Thừa Thiên Huế Province has asked Phú Lộc District authorities to hand over the ground for a project expanding the Hải Vân 2 Tunnel before July 15. However, the work may lag behind schedule, the provincial committee has said.

Hải Phòng is projected to become a green city and a major maritime service hub by 2025.

More than 13 tonnes of fish raised in cages along a section of the Đà River in Thanh Thủy District, Phú Thọ Province, died en masse over the past few days, incurring losses of up to VNĐ2.6 billion (US$113,000).

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) will ask the Government to restrict the import of recyclable and used materials to Việt Nam.

The air quality measured at the warehouse of Japanese-invested Yazaki Co, Ltd in northern Quảng Ninh Province, where nearly 100 workers became disoriented and lost consciousness last Friday, has been declared safe, the provincial inspection team has announced.

The number of people registered for tissue and organ donation has remained very small and fails to meet the nation’s demand for organ transplants, said Nguyễn Hoàng Phúc, deputy director of the National Co-ordinating Centre for Human Organ Transplantation.

The People’s Committee of central Quảng Ngãi Province has urged Quảng Ngãi City authorities to take measures to quickly handle 1,500 tonnes of garbage left in the inner city over the past six days.