Việt Nam News

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc chaired a meeting on Thursday on housing assistance for people affected by flash floods and landslides nationwide, stressing that helping the victims to rebuild their homes is an urgent task.

The authorities of HCM City and the leaders of the Ministry of Planning and Investment and Ministry of Science and Technology met on Thursday with 100 young talented Vietnamese to discuss the favourable conditions the city has created for experts and scientists to work on smart-city projects.

Promoting rooftop solar power is one of solutions to address the imminent shortage of power, experts told a workshop in HCM City on Thursday.

Bình Phước Province and several Central Highlands provinces are stepping up preventive measures as the number of malaria cases has risen since the beginning of the year, according to local centres for malariology-parasitology-entomology.

Bến Tre Province’s People's Committee vice chairman Nguyễn Hữu Lập has asked agencies to intensify inspections of illegal sand mining activities, focusing on hotspots in Chợ Lách, Châu Thành and Giồng Trôm districts.

The Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ targets an agriculture growth rate of 3.5 per cent each year in the 2018-20 period and 2.5 per cent in the 2021-30 period. 

Hà Nội's Police Department of Criminal Investigation of Social Order has issued a decision to prosecute a criminal case regarding illegal organ trading.

The Law Division of Hà Nội People’s Council has asked districts to force residents living in old apartment buildings to remove iron cages installed on balconies to create emergency exits.

Nearly 900 karaoke bars in the capital have been closed due to fire safety violations, according to Hà Nội’s Fire Department.

Another education official involved in a high school graduation exam cheating scandal in Sơn La Province was put under house arrest on Wednesday as the investigation expanded.

Nearly 40,000 State employees have been cut off since 2015 so far following the policy of the Party and Government to downsize the number of public employees since early 2015.

The People’s Court of HCM City on August 22 handed out prison sentences ranging from five to 14 years to 12 defendants, all of whom are members of a reactionary organisation. 

Hà Nội has been developing specialised cultivation areas to promote its farm products.

With the local flood season underway, a fishing net making village in Cần Thơ City is operating at full capacity.

The HCM City Farmers Association targets increasing farmers’ average income to VNĐ65 million (US$2,900) by 2023, up from VNĐ49 million last year.

Hundreds of toddlers have been unable to enroll at public kindergartens in Hà Tĩnh Province this school year due to a serious shortage of teachers.

The amount of fees collected from the newly-implemented hourly on-street parking zones in HCM City were disappointing, according to the city’s transport department, with the rate of lost revenue reaching as high as 60 per cent.

Eleven communes in the lowland area of Thanh Chương District in central Nghệ An Province have been heavily inundated due to the rising level of the Lam River.