Việt Nam News

 Five Vietnamese workers have died after a bus they were travelling in crashed into a truck and plunged into a canal.

The HCM City People’s Committee has approved to advance VNĐ2.1 trillion (US$93 million ) from the city budget for Metro line No.1 project between Bến Thành Market and Suối Tiên Tourist Park.

Giant river prawn farmers with more than one pond in the Mekong Delta province of Trà Vinh increased their incomes by staggering the release of prawn fry into their ponds through the last breeding season to ensure there was no oversupply and prices remained high.

In the heart of buzzing HCM City is a small group of young people teaching English to hearing-impaired students. They are part of the Hear.Us.Now (HUN) community project that offers education access to English language, computer science and life skills training.

Việt Nam has improved its water supply infrastructure and made it easier to access clean water in both urban and rural areas over recent decades, said Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Trần Hồng Hà.

Farmers in Tiền Giang Province’s Tân Phú Đông District have turned nearly 500ha of low-yielding rice paddies into lemongrass and soursop farms because of saltwater intrusion and drought.

As many as 399 districts across Việt Nam have been identified as high risk areas for the outbreak of bird flu while another 314 districts are at low risk, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

Minister of Transport Nguyễn Văn Thể has instructed the State-owned Airports Corporation of Việt Nam to complete the feasibility study for Long Thành Airport and submit by May 30.

 A new joint visa application centre for Belgium, Germany and Italy in Đà Nẵng was officially launched yesterday.

Long-standing violations in the use and management of Sóc Sơn District’s protection forest land have been blamed on the lax management of local authorities, the Hà Nội inspectorate recently concluded.

Japan’s Chiba Mode Business College (CMB), Eikoh Seisakusho, Sewing Box and Mabuchi Motor, in co-operation with Đà Nẵng-based Đông Á College and Kibi International University, have inked an agreement on human resource training and job practice to provide manpower for the Japanese market.

Illegal logging is threatening the protected forest of Sông Tranh in the central province of Quảng Nam’s Bắc Trà My District, with hundred-year-old trees being felled, nhandan.com.vn reported. 

The People’s Committee of northern Bắc Giang Province’s Lục Nam District said it would suspend the operation of an illegal inland waterway port built by a local enterprise to avoid over-exploitation of land.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has signed a decision to form a national steering committee for the prevention and control of African Swine Fever (ASF) by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường.

The Ministry of Health’s Department of Medical Examination and Treatment and UNICEF are carrying out surveys on patients’ satisfaction at obstetrics and paediatrics facilities as part of a national programme on the management and improvement of health facilities’ quality.

The naval forces’ marine and geological mapping sector has made important contributions to waterway safety and the protection of sea sovereignty; however, it was still in its early stages compared with other nations such as the UK, France and Russia.

A electronic toll collection (ETC) system will officially be put into operation at Phú Mỹ Bridge toll station in HCM City’s District 2 on Saturday.

In addition to results of national high school examinations, universities have added general ability tests to select students.