HCM City must accelerate economic growth to achieve this year’s target of 8.3 per cent, a government meeting held yesterday to review socio-economic development in the first 10 months heard.

Humanity and the way we feed, fuel and finance our societies and economies is pushing nature and the services that power and sustain us to the brink, according to the WWF’s 2018 Living Planet Report.

Test results have confirmed that more than 2,500 chickens and ducks in two farms in Hòa An Commune, Phú Hòa District, central province of Phú Yên died of influenza A (H5N6) virus in the last five days.

In a Wednesday announcement, authorities in the northern province of Thái Nguyên revealed that the main cause of damage done to houses in Trại Cau Township and Cây Thị Commune was the mineral exploitation activity of three local enterprises.

The ASEAN Community Statistical System (ACSS) made a great contribution to the ASEAN economy, said Nguyễn Thị Hương, deputy director of the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO).

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has approved a feasibility study for a project that will build a tunnel between Belt Ring Road 2.5 and Giải Phóng Street in Hoàng Mai District.

On Tuesday, police in HCM City caught six Chinese citizens organising online gambling from a villa in Phú Hữu Ward, District 9.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has signed a plan to slash the number of State-funded communication corporations and their total budget by 10 per cent by 2021.

Preservation of agricultural products is a major technological challenge for large-scale agricultural producers, especially in a country like Việt Nam with half the population engaged in farming activities.

Lack of attention to registering brand names and geographical indications is causing difficulties to Vietnamese agricultural products, which are sometimes shut out of other markets after their names are usurped by others, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

Danh Khang is studying the third grade at a primary school in Phú Quốc island district of southern Kiên Giang Province although he is 14 years old.

 The Government has aimed to prevent the construction of high-rise buildings in central Hà Nội, but investors have still found ways to get licences for their projects, according to construction expert Trần Ngọc Hùng.

Việt Nam, with its open and internationally integrated economy, had been enjoying a ‘golden population’ period with a high number of working-age people. However, the quality of the labour force was not ‘golden’, experts said at a conference yesterday in Hà Nội.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has asked the Ministry of Industry and Trade to complete a report on plans to use VNĐ3.6 trillion (US$157 million) from the State budget for the socio-economic development of resettlement areas in four northern mountainous provinces.

Ethnic minority households in Ea Trang Commune in Đắk Lắk Province’s M’Đrắk District have escaped poverty by planting thousands of hectares of acacia forests on barren land and hills.

Land is considered the most important aspect of agricultural production. However, slow land accumulation and policy obstacles are hindering the development of the agricultural land market in Việt Nam.

HCM City now has 15 public employment service centres and 82 companies providing services to help enterprises find workers.

The People’s Court of Phan Thiết City in the central province of Bình Thuận handed down prison sentences of between 2-3.5 years on 30 defendants for their disturbance of public order at the provincial People’s Committee headquarters in June, at the first instance-trial yesterday.