Việt Nam News

The Việt Nam Social Security (VSS) aims to slash the social insurance debt ratio to below 1.7 per cent this year in an effort to ensure benefits for social insurance and health insurance card holders, said VSS deputy general director Đào Việt Ánh.

The number of people hospitalised in HCM City with contagious diseases this year has increased compared with the same period a year ago, according to the city’s Preventive Medicine Centre.

Youth Union members in Việt Nam, with their ambition and creativity, play an enthusiastic role in protecting the environment.

African swine fever posed a substantial threat to the pig farming industry despite the measures being taken to stop the disease from spreading, said Nguyễn Xuân Cường at the first meeting of the national steering committee for the prevention and control of ASF held on Tuesday in Hà Nội.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has called on Hậu Giang Province to make more efforts to become one of the leading localities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta region in the next five years.

The German House was inaugurated in HCM City on March 26 at a ceremony which also marked the 25-year presence of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Việt Nam.

The Hà Nội Inspectorate on Monday confirmed it would continue investigating violations related to forest land use and management in Hà Nội’s Sóc Sơn District after releasing its initial conclusions on the violations last week.

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam has proposed developing software to better manage drivers in the transportation industry.

Việt Nam has made an important step in the development of its labour market by ratifying ILO Convention 159 on Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment for Disabled Persons, further proving the country’s commitment to eliminating employment discrimination against people with disabilities.

Drowning claims the lives of more than 2,000 children each year in Việt Nam, making it the country’s leading cause of deaths for people aged under 15.

Investigators in the northern coastal province of Quảng Ninh have arrested Lê Duy Hạnh, 56, incumbent chairman of State-turned-shareholding Quảng Ninh Thermal Power JSC, for alleged abuse of power.

Local people whose houses were destroyed by landslides in the city of Nha Trang’s Phước Đồng Commune, the central coastal province of Khánh Hòa, have re-built their homes despite warnings by authorities, reported online newspaper vov.vn.

About 200 metres of Trần Hưng Đạo Street from Lê Duẩn Street to Yết Kiêu Street in Hà Nội’s Hoàn Kiếm District will be narrowed to make room for the construction of Nhổn- Hà Nội Railway Station on the city’s new urban railway route in the next few days.

Fifty scientists from 21 countries and territories across the world gathered in the central city of Quy Nhơn, Bình Định province yesterday under the 15^th “Meeting Vietnam” ( Rencontres du Vietnam) programme.

Heavy traffic leading to traffic congestion has turned the section of the HCM City – Long Thành – Dầu Giây expressway one of the low-speed roads which faced rising traffic congestions.

A workshop was held at Cần Thơ University on Monday to discuss the transfer of knowledge and technologies from Europe to Việt Nam.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday told the Ministry of Public Security to remain vigilant in the fight against corruption, and exert all efforts to speed up investigations into cases of public concern.