The HCM City Department of Public Security in collaboration with political institutions will diversify grassroots models to mobilise all citizens for a campaign to strengthen public security and safeguarding the country.
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The HCM City People’s Supreme Court yesterday upheld a 30-year sentence handed down by a first-instance trial for Phạm Công Danh, the former chairman of the board of Việt Nam Construction Bank (VNCB), on charges of wrongdoing and violations of banking rules.
The number of Vietnamese working overseas totalled 140,000 this year, increasing nearly 7 per cent over last year, according to the Overseas Worker Management Department.
The Hà Nội Transport Corporation (Transerco) on Tuesday introduced four new bus routes to strengthen links with suburban areas.
A policeman in Phan Thiết City in the central coastal province of Bình Thuận was stabbed to death while on duty this morning, reported online newspaper baotintuc.com.vn.
Passenger bus network have been developed extensively in the districts, wards and towns to encourage people to use public transport to avoid traffic congestion as well as help the environment.
A charity worker who has been helping disabled children in Việt Nam for almost two decades has been recognised by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for her outstanding contribution to society.
Farmers in Trà Vinh Province’s coastal areas expanded the breeding of shrimp and other aquatic species to an additional 1,700ha of mangrove forests this year, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Doctors have performed a successful kidney transplant on a 15-year-old boy with kidney failure at Pediatrics Hospital No.2 in HCM City, the country’s first organ transplant on a child using a donated kidney from a brain-dead adult.
The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Bureau in Cambodia has become a prestigious news agency in the eyes of Cambodian readers and serves as a bridge between the Cambodian Ministry of Information and other news agencies.
HCM City next year will focus more on attracting foreign investment to further socio-economic development, especially in the technology, education, culture and tourism fields, a city official said at a foreign affairs meeting yesterday in the city.
More than 300 people voluntarily registered to donate their tissues, organs and bodies after death for scientific purposes at the ceremony of Tissue and Organ Donation held in HCM City.
HCM City Medical University Hospital on Monday announced that its doctors removed a 7-cm-long parasite from the brain of a 52-year-old man.
About 200 families living in Hòa Điền Commune, Kiên Lương District in the southern province of Kiên Giang have had to pay VNĐ100,000 (US$4.3) for a cubic metre of clean water for daily use, 15 times higher than the general water price in the province, because of the unavailability of tap water supply to their homes.
The recent rise in ‘black credit’ has trapped individuals and families in big cities of Hà Nội and HCM City as well as other provinces. When approaching this source of funds, most borrowers fall into the high interest trap and ‘forest law’ constraints.
The HCM City People’s Committee has decided to penalise all departments or localities that end up with less than 50 per cent of their budgeted public spending for this year.
Internal migration to the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) region has caused population concerns, security, environment protection and hindered socio-economic development.
HCM City has invited local and foreign companies to bid on waste treatment plants that are expected to reduce pollution and contribute to a greener and more beautiful urban area.
The northern port city of Hải Phòng is urgently on working clean water reservoirs in Cát Hải Island District to combat waster shortage.
