Storm No.9, internationally known as Usagi, lashed the south-central and south-eastern regions from Ninh Thuận to Bến Tre provinces with heavy rains and strong winds yesterday (Sunday) before weakening into a tropical depression.
The 16th annual KOVA Prize honoured three scientific research projects along with nine individuals and students for their outstanding contributions to the fields of applied science and technology, social welfare and scientific research at a ceremony on Saturday.
HCM City is bracing for Storm No.9, known internationally as Typhoon Usagi.
More than 6,000 residents in HCM City’s Cần Giờ and Nhà Bè districts have been evacuated to safe areas as the city braces for the ninth typhoon of the year.
Hà Nội’s Department of Construction has announced a list of 16 projects which have violated the Land Law due to excessive delays.
The Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ plans to provide vocational training to at least 30,000 people by 2020, 10 per cent of them poor, ethnic minority and rural people whose lives are affected by industrial and other projects.
The HCM City Department of Transport has sought permission to rent 100 more cameras to monitor traffic safety, saying there are no cameras on a number of streets and intersections, which poses difficulties for authorities to tackle traffic problems.
Breeding imported dogs as pets has been now becoming a trend in many in big cities such as Hà Nội and HCM City.
In the neonatal intensive care unit at HCM City’s Pediatrics Hospital 1, overcrowding can become so severe that some infants must stay in beds in the corridors.
A total of 10 prizes were granted to outstanding reporters yesterday in the “Journalism for Sustainable Development Award 2018” awarding ceremony.
As many as 2,000 people were killed by post-war landmines between 2010 and 2014, while an estimated 6.1 million hectares accounting for more than 21 per cent of Việt Nam’s land remains contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO).
The HCM City People’s Court yesterday gave imprisonment and probation sentences to five former workers of Việt Nam Export Import Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Eximbank)’s HCM City branch for “lack of responsibilities that caused losses to the State, agency, organisation and enterprise” as well as causing losses of VNĐ264 billion (more than US$11.3 million) to the bank.
The HCM City Department of Health has asked the city People’s Council to order Binh Chanh District to speed up compensation and site clearance procedures so that new medical facilities can be built in the area.
Public spaces are a key measure of urban green growth and sustainable development. With increasing urbanisation, Việt Nam’s cities have paid more and more attention to developing public spaces – but they still face a lot of challenges.
Nearly 4,000 fishing boats and the 23,000 people working on them off the coast of central and southern parts of the country were instructed to return to shore on Friday morning as Typhoon Samuel bore down.
Twenty seven poor households in Quảng Bình, Quảng Nam and Hậu Giang are expected to receive funds to build flood-resistant houses, bringing the total to 700 families over the past five years thanks to donations from the community.
The northern province of Quảng Ninh’s Drug Criminal Investigation Police Department in co-ordination with Hạ Long City police this week seized 221 tanks of nitric oxide (N2O), a gas often inhaled through a balloon.
The Ministry of Health has called upon scientists and enterprises to announce scientific research on health supplements sold on the market.
Police in the northern border province of Quảng Ninh recently arrested three Chinese nationals who are on the international wanted list for illegal detention of others.
The construction of Yên Sở Coach Station near Hà Nội’s Belt Road 3 is believed to fit with the city’s planning.
