Việt Nam News

The Australian embassy organised a workshop in Hà Nội yesterday to close its 18-month “Integrating gender and social inclusion into agricultural value-chain research in Việt Nam” gender project.

The vice chairman of HCM City People’s Committee has urged agencies to follow guidance from the city’s Party Committee in building the country’s largest public square in the Thủ Thiêm new urban area.

Representatives of NGOs, corporations, government agencies, and community plant harvester consortiums took part in TRAFFIC’s Green Growth workshop in Hà Nội on Thursday to discuss the economic and environmental benefits of sustainable sourcing.

Lê Thái Sơn, 31, from the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc, has been included on this year’s list of Innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review for managing to increase optical fibre transmission by 50 per cent.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the central province of Quảng Trị signed an agreement on communication cooperation in Đông Hà City on Thursday.

Waste collection in Hà Nội remains a major problem for authorities and sanitation companies.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc recently urged the Ministry of Transport to upgrade damaged build-operate-transfer (BOT) expressways as soon as possible to ensure the safety of people and vehicles.

Đà Nẵng will speed up the construction of key water plants – the Cầu Đỏ, Hòa Trung and Hòa Liên – in order to supply 250,000 cubic metres of clean water each day by 2019-2020.

Closer collaboration among stakeholders is needed to improve access to innovative medicines to combat cancer in ASEAN member countries, experts have said.

Requiring people who want to register for permanent residency in HCM City to rent a floor area of at least 20sq.m is too high, a conference held by the Vietnamese Fatherland Front to discuss the issue has heard.

Kiên Giang Province, the country’s largest rice producer, has grown more than 4.34 million tonnes of paddy so far this year, 900,000 tonnes more than the full-year target.

Many jujube farmers in Ninh Thuận Province, the country’s largest producer of the fruit, are improving yields and quality by using nets to cover their orchards and protect them from pests.

The number of Vietnamese students in the US has increased for 17 straight years, according to the Institute of International Education’s annual “Open Doors” report. 

The northeastern province of Quảng Ninh will put three major transport projects into operation at the end of December.

Hundreds of pine trees in Lâm Hà District in the Central Highlands Province of Lâm Đồng were allegedly poisoned to death, according to local authorities.

The body of the last victim of a gold mine collapse in Lộng Village, Thanh Nông Commune, Lạc Thuỷ District in the Northern province of Hoà Bình was found Wednesday at 11:30pm, 11 days after the collapse.

Despite worries that education will be commercilised as schools are sold and bought like commercial products, schools invested by private enterprises are operating well.

The Việt Nam-China border defence friendship exchange will take place in Cao Bằng Province and China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region from November 19-21.