Việt Nam News

It has been nearly four years since Hà Nội first rolled out its experimenting traffic enforcement camera network hoping to levy fines more accurately and effectively. At first it yielded modest results, but over time the system has proved to be more efficient.

Raising the age of children to 18 before they are legally classed as an adult is key to helping younger people access child protection services.

The southeastern province of Tây Ninh, the country’s largest custard apple producer, is growing the fruit to good agricultural practice (GAP) standards like VietGAP and Global GAP to meet the market demand and improve farmers’ incomes.

The agriculture, forestry and fishery sector lacks high-qualified human resources but few young people want to work in the sector despite the abundant job opportunities.

Farmers' use of nets in jujube orchards has reduced spoiled fruit to only 5-10 per cent compared to a loss of 30-40 per cent at other orchards that use pesticides, according to the Ninh Thuận Province Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. 

Việt Nam has proposed strengthening co-operation between ASEAN and China, the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Japan to prevent and control of emerging infectious diseases.

Representatives from the health ministry, international NGOs, donors, private-sectors companies and social enterprises discussed the private sector's role in financing efforts against HIV in Việt Nam at a workshop on Friday in Hà Nội.

Tropical Storm Podul brought heavy rains to northern and central localities after making landfall in central provinces from Hà Tĩnh to Quảng Bình early morning Friday, according to the latest report from the National Hydro-meteorological Forecast Centre.

Authorities in Cà Mau Province are investigating a fire which broke out last night at a local wholesale market in the city of Cà Mau, injuring five people and burning many goods.

The south-eastern province of Bình Dương is considered to be a place with many public housing projects and kindergartens for workers and their children, but they are proving insufficient.

Việt Nam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Republic of Korea (RoK)’s Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) signed a memorandum of understanding on co-operation in Hà Nội on August 28.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has accepted Đồng Nai Province’s proposal to be the State authority to implement the US$310 million Cát Lái Bridge project, which will link HCM City’s District 2 with Đồng Nai and Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu provinces.

Thousands of people attended the Hà Nội Innovation Summit 2019, which opened on Thursday at the National Convention Centre.

Đà Nẵng has won an Asia-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation (Asocio) Smart City Award for its outstanding initiatives of a smart city during the Asocio Smart City Summit in Bangkok, Thailand.

The healthcare system of traditional Vietnamese medicine has been expanded, with all 63 provinces and cities nationwide having traditional medicine hospitals.

HCM City plans to spend hundreds of billions of đồng on building more than 100 reservoirs to store rainwater and control flooding by 2020 under a flood-control programme.

She said Việt Nam has faced numerous challenges, like high public spending on healthcare, standing at 40 per cent.

The HCM City’s Food Safety Management Board will strengthen the inspection for food supplement production companies.