Việt Nam News

HCM City must be identified as a centre to supply high-quality human and technological resources for the logistics industry or a logistics centre

Agricultural businesses are facing increasing international competition and must use science, technology and innovation to improve their productivity and competitiveness, experts said yesterday at a workshop in the city.

Việt Nam’s socio-economic situation has shown positive signs with the economy maintaining growth momentum in the first months of 2019, according to Nguyến Đức Kiên, vice chairman of the National Assembly (NA)’s Economics Committee.

A campaign launched in HCM City on September 27 calls on at least 100 factories in southern Việt Nam to set the ambitious target of 100 days without occupational accidents.

The lives of ethnic people in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang have improved in recent years with the province implementing several measures for their socio-economic upliftment.

Nguyễn Văn Ánh, principal of Sơn Bua Primary and Secondary School, in the central province of Quảng Ngãi, walks about 3 kilometres on steep, dirt tracks and crosses a wooden bridge to Nước Mù Village to urge underprivileged students to go to school.

Many provinces in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have developed dairy and beef farming since it provides farmers with an additional income and benefits from local agricultural by-products.

A total of 12,675 traffic accidents occurred across the country in the first nine months of this year, killing 5,659 people and injuring 9,619 others, according to the latest report from the National Committee for Traffic Safety.

Four people were arrested accused of forging health certificates and medical records, Thanh Hoá Province Police said on Thursday.

The southern province of Bình Dương’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affair is coordinating with the provincial police to investigate the case of asphyxiation accident in steel furnace at Samina Steel Ltd Co, located at Tân Bình Ward, Dĩ An Town, of the province, causing three workers died on Monday.

The air quality monitor app AirVisual on Thursday named Hà Nội on top ten most polluted cities in the world with the air quality index remained above 200, which is considered hazardous.

Chemical corps on Thursday completed detoxification work at the most polluted zone in the thousands of hectares of debris-filled area once the warehouses of the Rạng Đông light bulb manufacturer.

Four journalists from Việt Nam News and Vietnam Television (VTV) provided trainees with basic journalism skills.

The HCM City Department of Education and Training plans to reform teaching and learning systems at schools to prepare for the introduction of a new training programme and textbooks in 2020-21.

The State must play a key role in investing in the national railway infrastructure to boost the development of the railway transport and attract more private investors to the sector, experts have said.

 Việt Nam, together with 40 other countries, had aligned itself to a voluntary global pledge “For every child, every right”, to ensure no one is left behind and to help every child reach their full potential, Ambassador Đặng Đình Quý, head of Việt Nam’s permanent mission to the UN, said on Wednesday.

Residents and authorities in the central province of Quảng Ngãi are still at loggerheads over whether a waste treatment plant should re-open, more than a year after its debut.

We cannot ignore it: Climate Strike, initiated by 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, has spread across the globe, and its impact has been immense.