HCM City next year will focus more on attracting foreign investment to further socio-economic development, especially in the technology, education, culture and tourism fields, a city official said at a foreign affairs meeting yesterday in the city.
More than 300 people voluntarily registered to donate their tissues, organs and bodies after death for scientific purposes at the ceremony of Tissue and Organ Donation held in HCM City.
HCM City Medical University Hospital on Monday announced that its doctors removed a 7-cm-long parasite from the brain of a 52-year-old man.
About 200 families living in Hòa Điền Commune, Kiên Lương District in the southern province of Kiên Giang have had to pay VNĐ100,000 (US$4.3) for a cubic metre of clean water for daily use, 15 times higher than the general water price in the province, because of the unavailability of tap water supply to their homes.
The recent rise in ‘black credit’ has trapped individuals and families in big cities of Hà Nội and HCM City as well as other provinces. When approaching this source of funds, most borrowers fall into the high interest trap and ‘forest law’ constraints.
The HCM City People’s Committee has decided to penalise all departments or localities that end up with less than 50 per cent of their budgeted public spending for this year.
Internal migration to the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) region has caused population concerns, security, environment protection and hindered socio-economic development.
The death toll from the fire that broke out at a restaurant on Friday in the southern province of Đồng Nai rose to seven after the latest victim died yesterday.
Gia An 115 Hospital – the first health care facility constructed in the form of public-private partnership (PPP) in HCM City – was inaugurated on Saturday.
The Việt Nam Clean Air Day 2018 opened in Hà Nội, drawing about 1,000 people through different activities to spread information on air pollution and settlement solutions.
The emerging mass tourism in coastal provinces in recent years has destroyed natural beauty spots at a furious pace. And In the next five years, Việt Nam may lose all tourism resources.
HCM City has invited local and foreign companies to bid on waste treatment plants that are expected to reduce pollution and contribute to a greener and more beautiful urban area.
The northern port city of Hải Phòng is urgently on working clean water reservoirs in Cát Hải Island District to combat waster shortage.
Only 1.7 per cent of the total credit account outstanding for the national economy in 2017 is provided for green finance by public and private banks.
HCM City plans to complete flood-prevention work by 2020 on 15 streets, 28 alleys, and five streets flooded by tides, under a new plan approved by the city’s People’s Committee.
A farmer in Lâm Đồng was honoured for his products of agricultural machinery which helped ease hardship of agricultural job.
Mã Đức Huy has just graduated from the HCM City University of Technology, but is unable to find a job related to his major, bio-technology.
HCM City Labour Federation on Friday signed an agreement with its counterparts in neighbouring provinces to resolve potential problems in relations between employees and employers.
Party General Secretary and President Nguyễn Phú Trọng met in Hà Nội on Friday with outstanding elderly villagers and village leaders from different ethnic minority groups across the country.
Six people were killed and another injured in a fire that broke out at a restaurant that was under renovation on Friday in Long Khánh Town in the southern province of Đồng Nai.
