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HCM City needs over $3.6 billion for infrastructure

HCM City requires investment of more than VNĐ83,061 billion (over US$3.6 billion) for the city’s transportation infrastructure development in the period 2021 – 2025.

Workers are the treasure of the nation

Lê Đình Quang, deputy director of the Department of Labour Relations from the Việt Nam General Confederation of Labour talks to the newspaper Hải Quan (Customs) on the importance of taking into account of the workers’ health in the up coming revised Labour Code

HCM City Traditional Medicine Institute to provide comprehensive services to autistic children

The HCM City Traditional Medicine Institute will soon provide comprehensive services including psychological consultation, speech therapy, acupuncture, hydro-acupuncture, thread embedding and electro-acupuncture for autistic children next month after three years of preparation.

HCM City lacks teachers for students with disabilities

The lack of teachers for students with disabilities in HCM City is posing concerns to educational experts.

Vietnamese doctors help with robotic surgeries in Philippines

Doctors from HCM City-based Bình Dân Hospital have assisted their counterparts at the Philippine General Hospital with using robots to perform two surgeries to remove a part of the stomach of two obese patients.

Đắk Nông police arrest five for poisoning pine trees

The Investigation Police Agency of Đắk Song District in Đắk Nông Province have detained five people for alleged deforestation.

ASEAN scholarship award ceremony held in Hà Nội

The students were chosen from nearly 300 applicants.

Hà Nội strengthens water testing after Đà River pollution crisis

The chairman of Hà Nội People's Committee, Nguyễn Đức Chung, has directed city’s Health Department to test multiple water samples every day and report to city leaders and publicise the results to citizens.

Việt Nam speeding up identification process of lorry victims

Vietnamese authorities are working to accelerate the identification of victims thought to have been involved in the lorry incident in Essex, the UK, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyễn Quốc Cường.

First trains for Nhổn-Hà Nội Station railway project to arrive in Việt Nam next year

The first set of trains for the Nhổn-Hà Nội Station railway project manufactured by a French company will arrive in Việt Nam next June, according to the capital city’s urban railway management board.

HCM City assistance to start-ups paying off

Many start-ups have brought their technologies and products into the market in 2017-19 thanks to financial and technical assistance for R&D provided by the HCM City Department of Science and Technology’s SpeedUp innovation and start-up programme.

Man enriches Vietnamese meals with Japanese style tofu

Giving up a stable job at a leading Japanese research centre with a high salary to return to Việt Nam and start a business at the age of 54 may be beyond most people.

Seminar discusses ASEAN social work development

Experts at the conference said human resources and financial challenges are hindering social work development in ASEAN countries.

Businesses concerned about overtime hour draft law

Businesses and experts are still concerned over the impact on production of overtime hours are not increased for seasonal jobs.

Start-up uses sugarcane to save shrimp

With the unique idea of using fermented bagasse (sugercane pulp) to treat shrimp ponds, Trần Phúc Hậu has become the proud director of a company that produces microbiological bagasse pulp.

Vĩnh Long to install 114 surveillance cameras

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Vĩnh Long will instal 114 traffic surveillance and security cameras by 2023 at a cost of nearly VNĐ200 billion (US$8.7 million).

Start-ups seek high-quality, innovative solutions

Nguyễn Việt Dũng, director of HCM City's Department of Science and Technology, talks to Việt Nam News reporter Gia Lộc about the development of start-ups in the country and HCM City.

UK sends papers to Việt Nam for verification of four victims

British police have sent documents to Việt Nam for verification on four of the 39 victims found dead inside a lorry last week, said a Vietnamese deputy foreign minister on Monday morning.

Five in illegal surrogacy ring get jail time

Five people involved in an illegal surrogacy ring have been sentenced to prison by a Hà Nội court on Saturday after delaying the trial in late September.