Việt Nam News

The HCM City Public Transport Management and Operation Centre wants to offer free tickets on buses running to Tân Sơn Nhất international airport to help ease congestion as Tết (Lunar New Year) draws close.

Historically, the mostly publicly financed health care system in Việt Nam has only been able to afford to pour resources into a handful of central level hospitals in big cities, forcing patients living in remote areas with serious diseases to go to Hà Nội or HCM City for treatment.

Đặng Quang Hữu, 44, of Đakrông District in the central province of Quảng Trị, is known as a bank owner who has risen from owning nothing to offering loans to 600 poor local households. Unlike other financiers, he requires no interest payments, supporting them as they grow forests to escape from poverty.

Transport departments from HCM City and southern provinces have started a campaign to better control unauthorised buses, coaches and bus terminals. They will also punish the owners of buses that stop in unauthorised places.

Post-harvest losses not only refer to the quantity of lost crops, but also any reductions in their quality and access to international markets, experts have said.

HCM City authorities are taking measures to ensure access to clean water during the dry season and upcoming Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

Nguyễn Thị Hồng Thương, 33, runs a large ginseng garden with more than 600 plants and many other traditional herbal medicine plants.

A cold wave which hit the northern region yesterday has lowered temperatures in the northern and northern central localities down to around 10 degrees Celsius. The cold snap is expected to last for the next in 10 days.

The HCM City Fire and Rescue Police Department and the Sài Gòn Water Supply Corporation will install 11,000 more fire hydrants by 2025 after being instructed to do so by the People’s Committee at a conference on fire hydrant management on January 25.

Residents living near cement plants in central Thừa Thiên- Huế and Quảng Bình provinces have complained about air and noise pollution that continually affects their lives.

A lack of funding is a major problem in implementing the master plan on simplifying administrative procedures, citizenship papers and the population management database for 2013-2020, according to officials.

Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) wants to promote agricultural partnerships between Việt Nam and Japan, with a focus on private sector investment and food value chains

The People’s Committee of HCM City’s District 1 on Thursday proposed expanding the current model for pavement food stalls at a meeting with the city’s People Committee on the district’s development for 2018.

A vocational school in Vĩnh Yên City in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc is training canines that are used as a special force to seek and rescue people if any incident, accident or natural disaster occurs.

About 58 per cent of ever-married women aged 18-60 have experienced violence in a family setting at least once in their lives, a national survey has found.

Việt Nam aims to raise its forest coverage to 41.6 per cent and to earn US$8.5–9 billion from exporting wood and forestry products while providing jobs to 25 million people in 2018.

Police, rescue workers, firefighters and health professionals yesterday took part in a radiation drill in the Central Highlands’ city of Đà Lạt.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked ministries, agencies, localities and police forces nationwide to take measures to ensure safety, security and order before, during and after the final of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under 23 Championship between Việt Nam and Uzbekistan.