Việt Nam News

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng yesterday requested the transport sector increase its efforts to prevent and reduce traffic accidents.

Health Minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến, spoke to newspaper Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) on the plan to introduce electronic prescriptions nationwide

Over seven per cent of the population aged 2 years and older, or around 6.2 million people in Việt Nam, have a disability, according to the first National Survey on People with Disabilities which was launched in Hà Nội yesterday.

Provincial authorities in the Mekong Delta provinces of Tiền Giang, Bến Tre, Trà Vinh and Vĩnh Long have developed a strategic vision for the sustainable development of the Delta’s Eastern Coastal Sub-region.

The Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ plans to provide training in agriculture for at least 1,400 people in rural areas this year, focusing mostly on crop cultivation and animal husbandry.

Young people in the workforce need to be better prepared to be able to compete in a knowledge-based economy, experts said at a conference held yesterday in HCM City. 

Several weeks before Tết (Lunar New Year), Đinh Thị Cẩn and other farmers of Phù Lương Commune in Quế Võ District, the northern province of Bắc Ninh are harvesting potatoes to serve peak demand over the holiday season.

Over 200,000 old automobiles ply the country’s roads though they are no longer licensed to do so, posing a threat to the community, without authorities finding a way to stop them.

Households in the south-central province of Ninh Thuận that protect forests have received additional help from authorities for farming, handicraft production and other activities.

A famous dried-banana village in Trần Hợi Commune in Cà Mau Province is now entering its peak production season for Tết (Lunar New Year), which falls on February 5 this year.

Many solutions were put forth for raising funding for building traffic infrastructure in the Southern Key Economic Region at a conference in Bình Dương Province on Thursday.

Ethanol can be used to delay the effects of methanol, allowing more time for dialysis, but the process must be conducted by doctors.

The Ministry of Science and Technology of Vietnam and the Australian Government seek to boost co-operation on science, technology and creative innovation, with the official launch of the Australia – Việt Nam Innovative Project, under the name Aus4Innovation, on Thursday.

Two Asiatic bears cubs rescued by Hải Phòng City Police were transferred to a bear sanctuary in Ninh Bình Province on Thursday, according to NGO Education for Nature Việt Nam (ENV).

The Ministry of Transport was looking at handing out lifetime bans to dangerous drivers, said Minister of Transport Nguyễn Văn Thể at a conference held in Hà Nội on Friday.

A newly-built dyke project using financial assistance from Belgium is expected to provide protection to as many as 500 people living on the banks of the Luy River in Bình Thuận Province’s Bắc Bình District.

In a bid to improve the behaviour of civil servants and ensure professionalism and transparency while performing their duties, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) has completed a code of conduct for civil servants.

On Thursday, Party General Secretary and President Nguyễn Phú Trọng asked the army to make all-out efforts to complete its targets and tasks for 2019.