Việt Nam News

Toll stations on roads built under Build-Operation-Transfer (BOT) contracts could be closed if investors behind the projects delayed repairs, Transport Minister Nguyễn Văn Thể said on Monday after receiving complaints about poor-quality BOT roads in the central province of Bình Định.

Cooperation between private and public health facilities has been ineffective in controlling and detecting tuberculosis cases in HCM City, according to the city’s programme on TB prevention.

The chairwoman of the HCM City People’s Council urged the city’s People’s Committee to seek better solutions to tackle flooding, pollution and traffic congestion at a meeting held on Monday in the city.

The Hà Nội People’s Court opened the first hearing in an illegal gold trading case against International Gold Trading Joint Stock Company (IG JSC) on Monday.

Many creative students have useful initiatives giving helping hands to the community nowadays.

Aloe vera farming has helped farmers in the south-central province of Ninh Thuận adapt to climate change and earn steady incomes since there is high demand for the plant to make food, cosmetics and herbal remedies.

Huệ Anh, a mother of 16-year-old daughter still have been haunted by the death of seven  youngsters at a music festival held in Hà Nội’s West Lake Water Park last month.

River and seaports in the Mekong Delta system of Group 6 ports handle a huge volume of goods, but 70 per cent amount of goods are still carried by road to HCM City.

A decision to implement a programme to reduce traffic congestion and accidents by 2020 was signed by.Trần Vĩnh Tuyến, deputy chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee, on Friday (Oct 5).

A database should be created to provide legal advice and information for overseas Vietnamese enterprises that want to invest in the country and build a strong brand for Vietnamese exports, a speaker said at a meeting held on Saturday (Oct 6) in HCM City.

Srey Phirum Khun, 45, used to spend 8 hours travelling from Cambodia’s Kampong Speu Province to HCM City in Việt Nam for health checkups and treatment. Today, she no longer faces the grueling journey thanks to the inauguration of the Chợ Rẫy Phnom Penh Hospital in January 2014.

The People’s Committee of Biên Hòa City in the southern province of Đồng Nai will install cameras to monitor illegal sand exploitation on the Đồng Nai River.

Transport authorities have prevented 31,000 trucks overloaded with goods or passengers from entering highways since early this year, the Việt Nam Expressway Service Joint Stock Company has said.

Farmers in Tiền Giang Province, the country’s largest fruit producer, have planted 1,000ha of new fruit plants so far this year, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Handicapped Vietnamese people face obstacles to access education, leaving the majority of them with a low level of education and few job opportunities, a conference heard in Hà Nội last week.

Thanh Hoá Province People’s Committee plans to give 21,000 students some 1,500 tonnes of rice during the first semester of the 2018-19 academic year.

Fifty-seven remote and rural villages in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk will be linked to the national power grid soon, according to Lê Hòa Nhơn, deputy director of Đắk Lắk Power Company.

An Italian doctor has returned to Việt Nam for the 10th time to conduct operations and provide examinations for children suffering from genital malformations.