Nearly 3,000 student volunteers last Sunday (18 June) attended the opening ceremony of Tiếp Sức Mùa Thi (Examination Assistance Programme) in HCM City to assist candidates sitting the national high school graduation examinations and seeking college admission.
People who are not residents of HCM City can now apply for civil service jobs.
The central coastal province of Khánh Hoà plans to spend more than VNĐ580 billion (US$25.52 million) on 60 infrastructure projects to prevent flooding, river erosion and saltwater intrusion in 2017-2018.
Heavy downpours are expected in the northern region until June 21, with warnings of flash floods and landslides in mountainous provinces.
A math solving application created by a Vietnamese IT engineer has been downloaded and received positive feedback from thousands of smartphone users recently.
Combination models of shrimp breeding and other aquatic products, no use chemical, are bringing sustainable results and potential profit to farmers in the central coastal province of Phú Yên.
Da Nang’s Dong A College has enrolled students for the first ever course on automobile technology and automation engineering in the central region.
With the amount of water stored up to 175 millions of cubic metres on high position, the major dam of Núi Cốc Lake in northern Thái Nguyên Province would cause unpredictable consequences to downstream areas if it broke, experts have said.
National Assembly deputies said yesterday that the Law on Forest Protection and Development had not clearly identified responsibility for forest protection nor encouraged people to participate seriously in protecting the country’s trees.
Việt Nam has repatriated remains believed to be of US soldiers who died during the Viet Nam War.
Public transport management in HCM City has greatly improved compared to five or seven years ago, thanks to modern technologies, experts say.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the Ministry of National Defence to halt all construction work related to auxiliary infrastructure for a golf course in the vicinity of Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport, including a golf school, villas and luxury apartments.
A ceremony to unveil a plaque for a road named after Trần Kim Xuyến, Việt Nam’s first journalist-martyr and the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)’s first leader, was held in Phố Châu town, Hương Sơn district, the central province of Hà Tĩnh on Saturday.
As least seven waterway tourism products will be developed in HCM City by 2020, according to its tourism development plan.
Trần Thị Diễm Sương was about to enter her third year of university when her mother told her she could no longer afford to pay her tuition and living expenses in HCM City.
Only 30 three-wheeled vehicles have been licenced to operate in Hà Nội, whereas up to 99 per cent of the remaining three-wheelers in the city are illegal, the Hà Nội Police Department says.
Heavy downpours are expected in the northern region until Wednesday, with warnings of flash floods and landslides in mountainous provinces.
The Mekong Delta, home to some 18 million inhabitants, is plagued by severe riverbank erosion, which has been blamed on climate change and human factors.
The extension of an insurance subsidy scheme for offshore fishing households until the end of this year has failed to benefit anyone.
Administration of public lands should be tightened to increase HCM City’s revenues, a city People’s Council meeting heard recently.
