Việt Nam News

Wetlands play a major role in preserving biodiversity and fighting climate change in Việt Nam, but the country is yet to establish firm strategies on how to preserve them.  

Fifty-three Vietnamese and foreign students took part in a 10-day Social Entrepreneurship for Economic Development (SEED) programme that ended yesterday (August 10) at the Banking University of HCM City.

The expansion plan for the HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất does not clearly define the airport’s civil, defense and security functions, and does not include plans for using the areas of land under management of the Defense Ministry. according to Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng.

 Hà Nội Police on Thursday announced that they arrested a group of six loggers for illegally chopping down public sưa (dalbergia tonkinensis) trees.

Some 10,000 illegally traded mooncakes were seized by the Hà Nội Market Watch Unit at a store selling agriculture products in Hoài Đức District on Wednesday.

The annual National Young Informatics Contest for students is being held at Lê Quý Đôn High School in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province from August 9-10.

The Drug Administration under the Ministry of Health has asked rabies vaccine suppliers and importers to ensure stockpiles are built up to meet increasing demand.

An endangered green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) has been released to the sea after being captured and kept at a house in the central city, a source from the city’s sub-department of Aquatic Resource Protection said yesterday.

Doctors from the provincial Quảng Nam General Hospital successfully removed a number of pieces of metal from the bronchi of a patient through endoscopy surgery on August 9.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to conduct a comprehensive inspection on the import of scrap materials, as the volume of second-hand products imported into Việt Nam has rocketed in recent times, raising concerns about how the scrap industry affects the environment. 

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam has asked Hà Nội’s Department of Transport to clarify the information about some driving training centres ignoring regulations by accepting bribes to guarantee success on theory tests.

Railway companies in the south will start selling Lunar New Year 2019 tickets – the biggest and longest holiday of Vietnamese people, falling in early February of 2019 – starting on October 1 this year.

 The Ministry of Transport (MoT) on Wednesday, decided to allocate more than VNĐ23 billion (US$989,000) to help the northern province of Yên Bái restore its road systems damaged by floods last month.

 The northern coastal city of Hải Phòng plans to mobilise investment from the private sector to build eight new coach stations in the period from 2018-20.

Two were killed and another seriously injured after two lorry trucks slammed into each other head on head yesterday afternoon on a section of the Hồ Chí Minh Trail in the central province of Hà Tĩnh.

All 30 districts of Hà Nội have recorded 290 cases of measles infections. Experts are concerned about the risks of a widening disease outbreak, the Vietnam News Agency reports.

Trà Vinh Province People’s Committee has asked local authorities to speed up the province’s agricultural restructuring programme by replacing ineffective rice paddy fields with other crops.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp plans to release flood water into more than 81,000 hectares of rice fields between August and October to enrich the soil with sediment.