Việt Nam News

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.

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.

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.

More than 200 scientific reports are being presented by surgeons and experts from 45 hospitals in Việt Nam and abroad at the Việt Nam Scientific Conference of Surgery and Endolaparoscopy that opened on October 5 in HCM City.

Hanoi Transport Services Corporation (Transerco), in co-operation with Telecoms Group Viettel, will launch the bus rapid transit (BRT) e-ticket line 01 from Kim Mã to Yên Nghĩa as a pilot program next Wednesday, October 10.

Handling public complaints in HCM City remains a complicated task since many involve large numbers of people and government staff have limited competence, the HCM City People’s Council concluded at a meeting yesterday.

Provincial authorities in the Central Highlands should encourage farmers to grow avocado around the year, the Western Highlands Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute has said.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng instructed the HCM City People’s Committee to handle the planned multi-trillion dong tidal flooding project.

Around 100 members of the World Technopolis Association (WTA) from nearly 50 countries and territories will gather next week for the WTA Summit 2018 to be held in Bình Dương Province.

The Ministry of Finance has proposed to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc measures to address loopholes in the legal framework related to offering state assets to Build-Transfer (BT) investors in exchange for infrastructure.

The number of poor households in the Mekong Delta province of Long An  fell from 4 per cent in 2016 to 2.9 per cent as of June this year, according to the province’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

More than 2,000 people including 300 speakers will attend the 16th National Congress of Cardiology in the central city of Đà Nẵng today and tomorrow.