Việt Nam News

Hundreds of academics, company bosses and human resource professionals in the southern province of Đồng Nai and neighbouring areas and young workers will take part in a job festival in Biên Hòa City on December 26.

Vietnamese citizens are set to enjoy faster, more convenient and more secure border crossings with new biometric passports to be rolled out by 2020.

Some 53 individuals, including four women, were honoured as “the Scientist of the Farmer” (Nhà khoa học của nhà nông) on Tuesday evening for their outstanding contribution to the nation’s agricultural sector.

All six students on Việt Nam’s team in the 15th International Junior Science Olympad (IJSO) held in Botswana from December 2 to 10 pocketed medals, including four gold medals and two silvers, the Vietnam News Agency reports.

HCM City will build a large, modern press centre, the first phase of which is scheduled to come into operation in the next two years, the city’s Department of Information and Communication announced at a press conference on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Information and Communications is building a Code of Conduct on Social Media, Tuổi trẻ (Youth) newspaper reports.

Monthly minimum wage will increase from VNĐ1.39 million (US$60) to VNĐ1.49 million ($65) at the beginning of July next year, according to the National Assembly’s Resolution 70/2018/QH14.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has ordered relevant agencies to boost the speed of land clearance and complete technical designs for the North-South Expressway project as scheduled.

On Tuesday, a group of construction workers discovered a mortar shell by chance while digging for a house foundation in An Nghiệp Ward, Ninh Kiều District in the southern city of Cần Thơ.

The People’s Committee of HCM City has directed the city Department of Planning and Architecture to give advice on new parking areas in the city.

In HCM City and the south-western region, individuals set up 75 per cent of all start-ups and organisations the rest, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology office in the southern region.

Motorcycle ambulances have been dispatched under a pilot programme run by the Sài Gòn General Hospital for the last three weeks.

The Vietnamese Government transferred three sets of remains believed to be those of missing US service members from the Việt Nam War at a repatriation ceremony at Đà Nẵng International Airport yesterday.

The HCM City People’s Committee has decided to repossess a 5,000sq.m. plot of land on Lê Duẩn Street in District 1 saying it was sold in violation of Land Law provisions.

It is not difficult to find meat, vegetables and fruits sold at supermarkets with quick response (QR) codes which help customers trace the origins and quality of their products.

The Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) has called for more support from the local and international business communities in humanitarian aid and social welfare projects at the first conference on humanitarian activities in Việt Nam today in Hà Nội.

Việt Nam plans that by 2020, at least 92 per cent of five-year-old children will be able to access a kindergarten education.

The Family Medical Practice clinic (FMP), one of the first foreign owned and operated multidisciplinary medical providers in Việt Nam since 1994, will bring support and charitable assistance to 40 disabled children, orphans and lonely elders in Hà Nội as part of “Back to Community spirit” for Christmas 2018.