Việt Nam News

Experts say violations in the construction field are still rampant in the capital city of Hà Nội, despite a new management regime intended to reduce the number of people on the State payroll while creating district-level inspection task forces.

The collection of indirect taxes in Việt Nam is forecasted to increase in the coming time while direct taxes is predicted to account for a smaller proportion, according to a Fair Tax Monitor Index report released by Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) yesterday.

HCM City will open an additional 17 high-quality bus routes beginning from July 1, increasing the total number of high-quality bus routes to 20.

A major fire at a high-rise apartment building Hà Đông District of Hà Nội taking place today’s afternoon was put out after 30 minutes.

The Ministry of Health has agreed to further co-operation with the Global Tuberculosis (TB) Programme by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and signed other agreements at the 71st World Health Assembly, which runs from May 21 to 26 in Geneva (Switzerland), Vietnam News Agency reported.

The Sóc Trăng border guards seized more than 50,000 litres of diesel in the territorial waters, some 28 nautical miles off the coast of the Mekong Delta province, on Thursday.

Thanh Hoá Province Police yesterday remanded two barrier keepers for three months in custody for "irresponsibility causing serious consequences" after a North-South passenger train crashed into a truck, killing two people and injuring 10 others on Thursday.

The licences of some 1,225 transport entities in Hà Nội have been revoked, reported Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper. 

Construction work on a road connecting Sóc Trăng City to a shrimp-rice farming area started, Trần Văn Chuyện, chairman of the provincial people’s committee, said Thursday.

The application of the economic watering model has helped increase productivity by 10-15 per cent and reduced the cost of labourers as well.

Overwhelming heat since early May seemed to signal a harsh and long summer this year. While many seek to hide from the heat in comfortable rooms cooled with fans or air conditioners, many workers dare not use too much electricity for the privilege. They are poor, and paying more for power than they should.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has predicted ten risks that could result in disasters including those related to fire, pollution, transport, health and nuclear power plants.

When the authorities of the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai decided to build the Ayun Hạ irrigation system in 2000, hundreds of local residents in Phú Thiện District’s Chư A Thai Commune were relocated to a new resettlement area.

The south-central province of Khánh Hòa is developing hubs for slaughterhouses to gradually move the current small, scattered ones that cause pollution.

 The National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC), in co-ordination with the Honda Việt Nam Company, has launched a programme aimed at delivering 20,000 helmets to motorists across the country.

Illegal mineral exploitation in Phú Quốc district in Kiên Giang province has defied the local government for many years, reported online newspaper vov.vn. Illegal exploitation has severely affected the district’s environment and risked public safety.

A campaign called Undetectable = Untransmittable was launched yesterday in HCM City to persuade people living with HIV to take antiretrovirals as prescribed by doctors to reduce the virus load in their body to undetectable levels so that they do not transmit it to their sexual partners.

At least 24.4 per cent of Vietnamese children are malnourished, shows the latest survey of the National Nutrition Institute.