Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has urged HCM City to boost the application of high technology in tracing the origins of food products as a way to gradually change the habits of production and consumption to improve awareness of food safety.
Nearly 800 HCM City officials and members and volunteers of the Việt Nam Red Cross Society took part in the annual celebration of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement held on May 5.
The HCM City Department of Health on May 5 began a campaign to mark ASEAN Dengue Day on June 15.
The third edition of the IoT Startup Competition was launched on May 5 by the Saigon Hi-Tech Park Incubation Center and the Startup Vietnam Foundation.
Members of the Central Key Economic Region are seeking for an institutional framework from the government for the cooperation within the region as the members failed to have a common ground for it.
A special task force has been set up to strengthen social order and security at transit points and in buses during peak hours in the capital city of Hà Nội.
Leading business groups in the Asia Pacific region recently set up a comprehensive cooperation programme called M2030 that aims to raise awareness about and funds to combat malaria in the region.
An action month for the environment will be launched next month with the theme “Resolving pollution caused by plastic and nylon”.
Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of An Giang switched to growing other crops on 20,000ha of paddy fields during the 2017-18 winter-spring crop, earning big profits and managing to cope with climate change.
Lác farmers in Vĩnh Long Province’s Vũng Liêm District are enjoying a bumper harvest and high prices.
Director of the Agriculture and Rural Development Department in central Quảng Nam province dismissed some local forest rangers for their failure to prevent deforestation, which came to light recently.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has asked airlines, airport authorities and air traffic management officials to tighten supervision to ensure aviation safety.
Financial and managerial autonomy for public hospitals has yielded positive changes, but district hospitals have seen limited benefits and new challenges.
Five former officials of Đại Tín Bank (Trust Bank) who were charged with “violating regulations on lending activities of credit institutes” were sentenced to three to seven years in jail by the HCM City People’s Court yesterday.
The rainy season in the southern region this year is expected to have temperatures 0.4 to 0.8 degrees Celsius above average, according to the Southern Hydro-Meteorological Station.
Tourists from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy will continue to be exempted from visa until June 2021, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said on Thursday.
An airline passenger was fined for issuing a bomb threat at Cát Bi International Airport in the northern city of Hải Phòng.
Approved projects using foreign capital in the period of 2017-18 must be reviewed after the signing of credit agreements to optimise the effectiveness of foreign loans.
Việt Đức Hospital’s Department of Plastic Surgery conducted successfully a surgery to remove part of a 45-kg tumour from a 34-year-old patient.
