Việt Nam News

Police in the northern province of Sơn La’s Lóng Luôn Commune have arrested two major drug lords.

A forest fire that raged for eight hours in the central province of Nghệ An was finally extinguished on Monday evening.

Starting this month, Hòa Bình Road that runs through Hòa Bình hydropower plant in the northern province will be restricted to traffic.

A special project,  empowers barefoot farmers to conduct insightful studies into the issues of their communities. They not only work with researchers, they become them, all without stepping into the ivory tower.

The Saigon Hi-Tech Park in HCM City has set up the Việt Nam-Japan Training and Technology Transfer Centre with assistance from Japanese human resource training companies.

New environmental protection fees are expected to reduce the volume of industrial waste water in HCM City, while higher parking fees on city centre streets will curb traffic congestion, according to the city’s Transport Department.

The government has urged the Ministry of National Defence and other agencies to approve the adjustment plan for the combined civilian and military Phan Thiết Airport in Bình Thuận Province.

The Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang has instructed inspection teams to impose severe fines on violators of laws on construction, land subdivision, and illegal deforestation, according to Phạm Vũ Hồng, chairman of the province’s People’s Committee.

The ASEAN Car Business Career Company of Japan plans to recruit more than 220 automobile engineering students from Đà Nẵng-based Đông Á College to work in the Japanese car industry later this year.

The Power Construction No1 Joint Stock Company inaugurated two hydro power plants – Bảo Lâm 3 and Bảo Lâm 3A – in the northern province of Cao Bằng on Saturday.

An overpass at District 2’s Mỹ Thuỷ intersection on June 29 opened to traffic, relieving traffic congestion in the area and at Cát Lái port.

The Customs Department at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City on June 29 seized over four kilos of cannabis hidden in 20 vacuum-sealed food packages sent from an unidentified person in California.

Local-level health care facilities are expected to increase their capacity and provide better services to help reduce pressure at central hospitals by “gaining public trust”, said Nguyễn Nam Liên, director of the Planning and Finance Department under the Ministry of Health (MoH), at the ministry’s press conference yesterday.

Though new media platforms such as social media have become increasingly popular, mainstream media remains the major channel to promote the growing business community in Việt Nam, speakers said at a forum held on June 29 in HCM City.

More than 300 overseas Vietnamese businesspeople from 25 countries and territories met in HCM City yesterday to take part in the Business Association of Overseas Vietnamese’s (BAOOV) third congress.

The HCM City People’s Committee plans to create a special mechanism for payment of land compensation and resettlement to implement a city Party Committee directive that calls for strengthening the role and efficiency of authorities in these tasks.

Farmers in the south-central province of Ninh Thuận are planting more rice, corn, sugarcane and other crops on large-scale fields to raise incomes.

A Nùng ethnic man born with brittle bones has defied physical limitations to develop his own business in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang.