Việt Nam News

HCM City plans to spend hundreds of billions of đồng on building more than 100 reservoirs to store rainwater and control flooding by 2020 under a flood-control programme.

She said Việt Nam has faced numerous challenges, like high public spending on healthcare, standing at 40 per cent.

The HCM City’s Food Safety Management Board will strengthen the inspection for food supplement production companies.

The 4th International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development (GEOTEC HANOI) will be held in November in Hà Nội.

Hundreds of households in Mai Thủy Commune, Lệ Thủy District, have had to use unhygienic water from wells and the Kiến Giang River.

According to the indictment of the People’s Court of central Quảng Bình Province, Xeng Vang, 24 years old, residing in Laos’ Bolikhamsai Province was hired by a Vietnamese man named Hạng A Chinh, 23 years old, residing in Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông to carry drugs from Hà Tĩnh Province to Đà Nẵng City.

Total funding for the project exceeded VNĐ32 billion (US$1.4 million).

The allocation was announced on Wednesday to support more than 18,000 residents who suffered from heavy floods in early August from Đắk Lắk, Kiên Giang and Lâm Đồng provinces.

Teachers at schools in HCM City, especially kindergartens, have co-operated with health officials to clean and disinfect toys and the environment to ensure hygiene when a new academic year begins on September 5.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has revoked the licenses of two labour export companies for failing to meet labour export requirements.

The storm is moving westwards at 25km per hour and is expected to be located about 150km to the east of Nghệ An to Quảng Bình provinces by 1am of Friday, packing winds of 75-100km per hour.

Transportation, construction and cooking at home are among factors causing pollution both indoors and outdoors in Hà Nội.

Đỗ Hữu Hảo, President of the Việt Nam Union of Science and Technology talks to the newspaper Hải Quan (Customs) on the cost and effectiveness of energy saving.

The HCM City People’s Committee has ordered the termination of the contract with the Investment and Development for Underground Space Corporation to build an underground parking lot at Lê Văn Tám Park in District 1.

Đồng Tâm Commune made international headlines in late March and mid-April, 2017 when 38 civil servants and some police personnel were held hostage by the commune’s residents over the land dispute.

Lâm Đồng Province seeks to have 250 well-functioning agricultural co-operatives and two co-operative alliances by next year.

Phan Lạc Việt Hoà, seven, along with his younger brother and father were keenly sticking coloured cellophane sheets on their star lanterns made out of bamboo.

The Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control has asked its sub-committees, relevant ministries and sectors to brace for tropical storm Podul that is moving towards Việt Nam.