Drivers will be able to top up their account through text or banking services to pay toll fees electronically at Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) booths nationwide, said Nguyễn Mạnh Hà, general director of Việt Nam Electronic Toll Collection (VETC) Company.
With hydropower and fossil fuel potential nearing exhaustion, the development of wind and solar energy is becoming a necessity. The coastal province of Ninh Thuận is aspiring to become the country’s centre of renewable energy and realise its ambitions via robust development policies.
ASEM’s pioneering role as a key driver of economic growth and innovation in the 21st century and its contributions to international efforts to address global challenges were highlighted at a Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) conference that ended in Cần Thơ City on June 20.
“Your pens are the sharp weapons in the cause of telling the truth…” Thus began a letter that President Ho Chi Minh wrote to intellectuals and journalists in the southern part of the country on May 25, 1947. More than seven decades later, it is fair to say journalism has gone through many changes, all over the world.
Medical checkup fees will decrease by 15-20 percent as from July 15 when a circular issued by the Ministry of Health regulating uniform prices for medical checkup and treatment services for insurance card holders in hospitals across the country takes effect.
When it comes to seedless lime farming in Việt Nam, farmers across the country immediately think about a man with the nick name Hà Chanh Tứ quý (Hà Lime). He was the first person to grow Australian seedless limes in the northern province of Hưng Yên.
Many provinces and cities in the country plan to install cameras in kindergartens, but educators and lawyers say that the system cannot fully resolve the problems of bullying and physical abuse by teachers.
Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta who sowed the summer- autumn rice crop early are facing a threat of lower yields and increased costs because of disease outbreaks.
HCM City’s People’s Committee has directed the city’s health department and districts’ people’s committees, in collaboration with agencies at all levels, to take measures to prevent the Ebola virus from entering the country, which has appeared in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids, and Social Affairs (MOLISA) and ManpowerGroup have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to prepare the Vietnamese workforce for the digital age.
The HCM City Department of Science and Technology yesterday (June 19) began a contest that seeks to encourage individuals and organisations to come up with innovative technology ideas, products and solutions for the country’s socio-economic development.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc recently issued an instruction on tougher action against smuggling, commercial fraud and production of fake and low-quality goods.
It’s been three months since the last time Đinh Văn Tính, 52, had that pleasure of breathing in a puff of smoke from the traditional Vietnamese pipe tobacco that has become as familiar as rice meal for the last quarter of the decade.
Việt Nam wants to enhance co-operation with the international community to promote renewable energy, invest in new technologies and implement projects for environmental protection, Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh said at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Conference on Climate Change Response held in Cần Thơ City yesterday (June 19).
The Ministry of Health has put forward a proposal to inoculate children against measles from the age of sixth months instead of the current ninth months.
HCM City has earmarked 665ha of land by 2020 to build new facilities for and upgrading hospitals so that they can cope with the relentless overcrowding, according to its Department of Health.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has launched a online map website featuring eroded sites along rivers and the coast in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta in an aim to reduce losses from the increasing number of landslides that have occurred in recent years.
Nearly 40 per cent of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) enterprises in Việt Nam are in shortage of employees and have struggled with recruiting new labourers, said an official of Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Moves to reform textbooks and the general education curriculum must be undertaken to reduce work overload among students, the Prime Minister said in an instruction.
Local authorities in Đồng Tháp Province will ban fishing in the breeding season from May to June to proctect aquatic resources in the province.
