Việt Nam’s software industry and investment environment will be the featured topics at a Việt Nam IT Outsourcing Conference held on October 19-20 at the convention centre at Quang Trung Software City in HCM City’s District 12.
Poverty and gender inequality are said to be key drivers of child marriage in Việt Nam, particularly in ethnic minority communities in rural areas.
The central Quảng Trị Province will lay a new water pipeline swiftly so that Vân Hòa villagers stop consuming metal-contaminated underground water, which is suspectedly making them ill.
The number of children admitted to the Hà Nội-based National Paediatrics Hospital for disorders following the use of a traditional medicine called thuốc cam has increased.
Many parents in Hà Nội have forced their children to take on extra classes to revise and prepare for the coming academic year in spite of the city’s ban on additional schooling in June and July.
HCM City needs Europe’s experience and solutions to create smart cities, a conference heard Friday.
HCM City plans to begin construction of 48 new projects and complete 19 traffic congestion projects in the last six months of the year, according to the city’s Department of Transport.
In co-operation with Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF), the central city has officially debuted a new public bus route as part of Đà Nẵng’s urban traffic corridor improvement project.
For hundreds of years, S’Tiêng ethnic group in Central Highland Province of Lâm Đồng has been living in forest in the bordering area among Lâm Đồng, Bình Phước and Đồng Nai, now better known as Cát Tiên National Park.
The investigative unit of the police in the capital city’s Hoàn Kiếm District on Friday began criminal proceedings against a citizen who assaulted a female street sweeper.
Hà Nội Police on Friday prosecuted two company directors for trading counterfeit products after police and the Market Watch Division last month confiscated more than 600 water filters illegally labeled “Made in US”.
The HCM City police have detained restaurant owner Trần Tuấn Minh, 22, for allegedly misappropriating nearly VNĐ700 million (US$31,100) from an Australian.
As many as 123 villas that should have been on the list of must-preserved villas in Hà Nội were demolished because of mismanagement by relevant agencies, a report of the municipal People’s Council revealed.
At least five households in Sùng Chô Hamlet, Nậm Lỏong Commune, in northern Lai Châu Province, were evacuated on Thursday after a sinkhole with area of some 600 sq.m. appeared nearby.
The People’s Court in the south central province of Khánh Hòa on Thursday sentenced Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, better known as ‘Mother Mushroom’, to 10 years in prison for conducting anti-State propaganda under Clause 1 of Article 88 of the Penal Code.
Provinces and cities of the Mekong Delta region need to focus on speeding up agricultural production, tourism and services to tap the region’s potential, said Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ.
The northeastern province of Quảng Ninh will mobilise financial resources to relocate people from landslide- and flood-prone areas in 2018.
Households in the Mekong Delta province of Bạc Liêu living near dangerous and risk of landslide have been relocated to safe places, local authorities said.
Hà Nội will reorganise the system of loudspeakers at the ward level in July, Chairman of the city’s People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung said on Wednesday.
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved on Thursday US$153 million in concessional financing to support Việt Nam’s National Target Programmes (NTPs) for rural development and reducing poverty, which are central to the government’s strategy for raising rural incomes and productivity.
