Việt Nam News

Education and training are vital to the socio-economic development of countries, including Việt Nam, Văn Kim Hoàng Hà, vice dean of the faculty of oriental studies at the HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities, told a conference in HCM City yesterday.

 In the first nine months of this year, the sex ratio at birth in Ha Noi stood at 110.5 boys to 100 girls, a decrease from 2018 when it was 113.5:100.

Lê Văn Sỹ, a health technician at a hospital in central Quảng Bình Province, has been dedicated to giving blood for years.

The southernmost province of Cà Mau provides vocational training to its rural population to meet the labour market demand and help provide steady livelihoods.

Many pepper farmers in the southeastern province of Bình Phước have switched to other crops to improve their income amid declining pepper prices and disease outbreaks.

The entire Đà Nẵng – Quảng Ngãi Expressway opened to traffic on September 2 last year.

Bùi Văn Dương, deputy director general of the Department of Construction, talks to Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper about serious encroachments made by some construction projects at historic sites and parks in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang

A programme on asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) management has gained remarkable results in reducing the number of hospitalisation rate of patient with asthma and COPD in Hải Phòng City.

The People’s Court of HCM City started a trial on Friday against Hứa Thị Phấn, a former senior advisor to the board of directors of Đại Tín Bank (Trust Bank), now Việt Nam Construction Bank (VNCB), for “abusing trust to appropriate property” under article 175 of the 2015 Penal Code.

Twelve government officials have been jailed for embezzling funds and failing in their duties.

The central province of Quảng Nam has approved a detailed plan for the International Education City-Nam Hội An project on 60ha in coastal Thăng Bình district with total investment of VNĐ1.5 trillion (US$66.4 million).

The HCM City Customs Department plans to reduce the number of and shorten the time for customs procedures at Cát Lái Port in District 2 to reduce congestion.

Plans have been proposed to increase tax on tobacco, ban electronic vapes and tighten online advertising of cigarettes.

Authorities in the capital had planned to move 117 polluting facilities out of the inner city to make space for public schools, parking lots and public spaces.

An island commune in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang is expanding marine aquaculture in combination with tourism and other services to further the incomes of local farmers. 

Nguyễn Phương Bình, a young man from southern Bến Tre Province, has always got on well with children, so naturally he had ambitions of becoming a teacher.

Police in the northern mountainous province of Lai Châu have launched legal proceedings against two officials from Sìn Hồ District’s Department of Education and Training on embezzlement charges.

The People’s Court in the northern province of Bắc Ninh handed jail terms to Ngô Bá Khá and another five found guilty of gambling at a first instance trial on Wednesday.