“Your pens are the sharp weapons in the cause of telling the truth…” Thus began a letter that President Ho Chi Minh wrote to intellectuals and journalists in the southern part of the country on May 25, 1947. More than seven decades later, it is fair to say journalism has gone through many changes, all over the world.
ASEM’s pioneering role as a key driver of economic growth and innovation in the 21st century and its contributions to international efforts to address global challenges were highlighted at a Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) conference that ended in Cần Thơ City on June 20.
With hydropower and fossil fuel potential nearing exhaustion, the development of wind and solar energy is becoming a necessity. The coastal province of Ninh Thuận is aspiring to become the country’s centre of renewable energy and realise its ambitions via robust development policies.
HCM City’s People’s Committee has directed the city’s health department and districts’ people’s committees, in collaboration with agencies at all levels, to take measures to prevent the Ebola virus from entering the country, which has appeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs (MOLISA) and ManpowerGroup have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to prepare the Vietnamese workforce for the digital age.
The HCM City Department of Science and Technology yesterday (June 19) began a contest that seeks to encourage individuals and organisations to come up with innovative technology ideas, products and solutions for the country’s socio-economic development.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc recently issued an instruction on tougher action against smuggling, commercial fraud and production of fake and low-quality goods.
The Ministry of Health has put forward a proposal to inoculate children against measles from the age of sixth months instead of the current ninth months.
It’s been three months since the last time Đinh Văn Tính, 52, had that pleasure of breathing in a puff of smoke from the traditional Vietnamese pipe tobacco that has become as familiar as rice meal for the last quarter of the decade.
Việt Nam wants to enhance co-operation with the international community to promote renewable energy, invest in new technologies and implement projects for environmental protection, Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh said at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Conference on Climate Change Response held in Cần Thơ City yesterday (June 19).
HCM City has earmarked 665ha of land by 2020 to build new facilities for and upgrading hospitals so that they can cope with the relentless overcrowding, according to its Department of Health.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has launched a online map website featuring eroded sites along rivers and the coast in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta in an aim to reduce losses from the increasing number of landslides that have occurred in recent years.
Nearly 40 per cent of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) enterprises in Việt Nam are in shortage of employees and have struggled with recruiting new labourers, said an official of Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Moves to reform textbooks and the general education curriculum must be undertaken to reduce work overload among students, the Prime Minister said in an instruction.
Local authorities in Đồng Tháp Province will ban fishing in the breeding season from May to June to proctect aquatic resources in the province.
Many pineapple farmers in Tiền Giang Province’s Tân Phước District, the largest pineapple planting area in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta, are taking losses because of fluctuating prices caused by an oversupply.
Lê Thanh Vân, a standing member of the Finance and Budget Committee of the National Committee talks to the newspaper Tiền Phong (Vanguard) on the need to highlight the idea of transparency in the fight against corruption in the Law on Anti Corruption.
A smart mattress that helps the elderly change posture and direction is one of three winning engineering projects in the Engineering Projects in the Community Service Programme, launched in January by USAID.
HCM City Party Committee Secretary Nguyễn Thiện Nhân yesterday (June 19) asked city authorities to offer more financial assistance and new policies for print newspapers, television channels, radio stations, and online news sites for continued development.
The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has reported to the government about the operation of Tân Đệ Build-Operation-Transfer (BOT) toll station in the northern province of Thái Bình.
