Việt Nam News

A Government delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình on Friday paid homage to Archbishop of HCM City’s Archdiocese and former President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Việt Nam Paul, Bùi Văn Đọc, who passed away in Rome on March 6 (Rome time).

Thousands of households in central Quảng Nam Province have been thirsting for clean water for years as most of the wells are seriously contaminated with aluminum and few water supply works have been built to solve the problem.

All districts will be expected to develop a “smart urban area” plan by 2020, Trần Vĩnh Tuyến, HCM City People’s Committee vice chairman and head of the smart city management board, said on Friday.

The seventh extraordinary meeting of the HCM City People’s Council 9^th term wrapped up yesterday after approving resolutions to implement the recent National Assembly resolution No 54 for “piloting a special mechanism and policy for the development of HCM City.”

The alarming number of teacher attacks issues an urgent demand on both administrative and financial solutions from policymakers.

Phạm Khánh Phong Lan, head of the HCM City Food Safety Management Board, speaks to Sài Gòn Giải Phóng (Liberated Sài Gòn) about the positive results of the board’s work.

Some 118,290ha of rice fields affected by lack of water and saltwater intrusion in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta will be used to grow other crops or aquaculture this year, according to the Plant Cultivation Department.

A ceremony was held yesterday in memory of the Vietnamese civilians cruelly killed in the tragic Mỹ Lai massacre during the American war, and was attended by Vietnamese leaders, local residents and US veterans.

The body of the last of nine roustabouts who drowned in the northern province of Lào Cai was recovered on Friday, the province’s border guard police said.

The People’s Committee of Hà Nội has approved a plan to build an ecological park of over 15,000sq.m in Hoàng Mai District’s Vĩnh Hưng Ward.

Inspectors from the HCM City Department of Health will check the operations of private general clinics and beauty clinics, officials have said.

Four persons have died, and one is in critical condition after drinking rice spirit in the central province of Quảng Nam.

Five men were arrested in the southern province of Kiên Giang for stealing batteries from local network service providers, local police said on Thursday.

On Lunar New Year’s Eve in 2018, a group of six walked from Đông Hà City’s Cultural Centre to Lê Duẩn Park, presenting books to every child they met on the road. The 300 books distributed in just one night, the walkers hoped, would motivate children to cultivate a life-long habit of reading.

The HCM City Party Secretary Nguyễn Thiện Nhân has expressed dissatisfaction with the efforts to combat corruption and squander last year.

After waking up at 5am, Nguyễn Thị Oanh, a farmer in Hà Nội’s Ba Vì District, headed to the field to cut cabbages and carried them to the local market for sale. Some 40 cabbages freshly cut on the farm filled her two baskets. But Oanh’s mood was gloomy.

Some residents in northern Hải Phòng City have been living in fear of the fuel stations located near their houses, causing health problems and posing deadly risks.

Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) countries have reached an agreement on the implementation of a cross-border transport facilitation agreement (CBTA).