Việt Nam News

The Department of Transport in HCM City has proposed a plan to invest over VNĐ85 trillion (US$3.65 billion) until 2020 to reduce traffic congestion and accidents.

The Việt Nam Fatherland Front Committee in HCM City and five political-social organisations and associations have signed a cooperation agreement on a sustainable poverty reduction programme.

Hà Nội authorities deemed 'smart city' a natural progression for a city set to become a metropolis by 2030. Trọng Kiên reports

The Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ will relocate 9,400 households with more than 37,000 members living along rivers and canals by 2030 to ensure their and waterway safety and sanitation, according to its Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Hà Nội wants to develop a new urban administration model for a more efficient and effective governance, Secretary of the Hà Nội Party Committee Hoàng Trung Hải said.

Human resource training needs to focus on creativity and soft skills and foster gender equality to meet the high demands imposed by the fourth industrial revolution, the rector of the HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanities has said.

The Government Inspectorate has blamed the HCM City People’s Committee, the Ministry of Construction and the Government Office for  shortcomings in submitting, evaluating and advising on resettlement areas in the Thủ Thiêm new urban area.

Farmers in the Mekong Delta are earning more income from breeding more fish and other aquatic species in rice fields during the annual flood season. 

Blockchain technology is expected to enhance exports by providing a global trading identity, speakers at a blockchain conference held in HCM City said yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved the Vietnam Health Programme to improve the well-being, stature, lifespan and life quality of Vietnamese people.

The HCM City’s People’s Committee has urged the city’s Department of  Planning and Architecture to complete its plan to open three more pedestrian streets.

Dozens of garment workers in the northern province of Yên Bái were taken to hospital after being exposed to toxic gas. The workers became ill after a large amount of oil was burnt due to an air compressor malfunction, pumping noxious fumes into the working area.

Northern regions are predicted to experience a warmer winter this year, with temperatures between 0.5 and 1 degrees Celcius higher than last year, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has said.

Lê Văn Thọ, Chairman of Phong Dụ Commune, Văn Yên District in the northern mountainous province of Yên Bái, confirmed yesterday that a 56-year-old Italian engineer was killed by falling rocks at a local quarry.

Two men suspected of robbing a bank in central Khánh Hòa Province have been arrested, said provincial police on Friday.

Preventive Medicine Centre of HCM City warned dengue, hand-foot and mouth disease, measles were increasing and threatening to be spread among children when a new school year came.  

Trần Đình Liệu, Deputy Director of Việt Nam Social Insurance, speaks to the newspaper Tiền Phong (Vanguard) on his agency’s target to have all Vietnamese students join the health insurance scheme

The central city-based University of Science and Technology has launched its first ‘smart’ building complex, offering one-stop administrative procedure shop, an international student guest house and multi-function building with total investment of VNĐ103 billion (US$4.5 million).