Việt Nam News

Preservation of agricultural products is a major technological challenge for large-scale agricultural producers, especially in a country like Việt Nam with half the population engaged in farming activities.

Lack of attention to registering brand names and geographical indications is causing difficulties to Vietnamese agricultural products, which are sometimes shut out of other markets after their names are usurped by others, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

Danh Khang is studying the third grade at a primary school in Phú Quốc island district of southern Kiên Giang Province although he is 14 years old.

 The Government has aimed to prevent the construction of high-rise buildings in central Hà Nội, but investors have still found ways to get licences for their projects, according to construction expert Trần Ngọc Hùng.

Việt Nam, with its open and internationally integrated economy, had been enjoying a ‘golden population’ period with a high number of working-age people. However, the quality of the labour force was not ‘golden’, experts said at a conference yesterday in Hà Nội.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to complete a report on plans to use VNĐ3.6 trillion (US$157 million) from the State budget for the socio-economic development of resettlement areas in four northern mountainous provinces.

Ethnic minority households in Ea Trang Commune in Đắk Lắk Province’s M’Đrắk District have escaped poverty by planting thousands of hectares of acacia forests on barren land and hills.

Land is considered the most important aspect of agricultural production. However, slow land accumulation and policy obstacles are hindering the development of the agricultural land market in Việt Nam.

HCM City now has 15 public employment service centres and 82 companies providing services to help enterprises find workers.

The People’s Court of Phan Thiết City in the central province of Bình Thuận handed down prison sentences of between 2-3.5 years on 30 defendants for their disturbance of public order at the provincial People’s Committee headquarters in June, at the first instance-trial yesterday.

Nguyễn Văn Thuận and Mai Thanh Tùng from RMIT University Vietnam won third prize as a team in the final round of the ASEAN Data Science Explorers (ADSE) competition held in Singapore.

Three former department officials in Sơn La Province have been accused of wrongly overcompensating a resident during land clearance for a hydropower plant, causing losses of more than VNĐ1.2 billion (US$53,300) to the State.

More than 630,000 vehicles using roads in Việt Nam are required to use black boxes to send data to transport agencies, but on average, one on four vehicles don’t fulfill these obligations.

Đà Nẵng plans to build a 1.2km safe lane for local residents at railroad crossing sites along a section of the north-south railway system from Hòa Cầm flyover bridge to Cầu Đỏ bridge in Cẩm Lệ district, with total investment of VNĐ39 billion (US$1.7 million).

Last year, a photograph of a white woman meditating as she sat behind a pot of money on a Phú Quốc Island street caught the attention of Vietnamese Facebook users. Now, local authorities are trying to bring the Russian "begpacker" -- the term for tourists from developed countries who rely on handouts from locals to finance their travels -- to the Russian Consulate in HCM City after she attempted to use a hospital as a hotel room. 

People’s Court in the southern province of Tây Ninh has sentenced two people years in prison for cross-border drug trafficking and transportation.

Twenty-seven construction works that were built illegally on forest land in Hà Nội’s Sóc Sơn District in the past two year must be dismantled within December.

 Four big universities in Hà Nội on Tuesday committed to work together on training, research and development.