Việt Nam News

Chairman of central Quảng Nam Province People’s Committee Đinh Văn Thu on Monday morning decided to deactivate all job promotion decisions to Lê Phước Hoài Bảo – director of the province’s Planning and Investment Department.

Some 1,700 out of 1,928 workers at the Korean-owned Texwell Vina Company, which has closed and whose managers have fled the country, have received unemployment benefits while more than 600 have found new jobs, Đồng Nai Province authorities have reported.

An intensive training programme for French teachers and managers, chiefs and communication specialists at French teaching centres in 12 countries in the Asia-Pacific began yesterday including at the HCM City University of Paedagogy.

Police of northern Phú Thọ Province have launched legal proceedings against more than 70 defendants for their alleged involvement in a major gambling and money laundering case.

The HCM City People’s Committee is carrying out the final steps of a pre-feasibility study report for improvements to general hospitals in Củ Chi, Hóc Môn and Thủ Đức districts before submitting it to the People’s Council for approval.

Authorities in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk on Sunday announced that a decision by Krông Pắk District to suspend the labour contracts of about 200 teachers in the locality would be halted.

The People’s Committee of southern Đồng Nai province on Sunday decided to spend VNĐ1.4 billion (US$ 61,500) from its budget to pay for the social insurance of workers of a garment company. 

Authorities of Krông Pa District in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai found the bodies of three children on Sunday who had gone missing last Friday.

HCM City Police announced on Sunday that they had arrested an American Vietnamese woman and started criminal proceedings against her on charge of kidnapping two children for US$50,000.

People with low-incomes are now confronting a crisis as the preferential loan package of VNĐ30 trillion (US$1.3 billion) for affordable home purchases ended in 2016, with no workable alternative currently on offer.

The HCM City Department of Health has instructed health divisions in districts to soon create a comprehensive system to prevent accidents and related injuries even as the city reported 45 people died in accidents last year.

The National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) has collected nearly 10,300 units of blood from donors at the Lễ hội Xuân hồng 2018 (Red Spring 2018) blood donation festival in Hà Nội.

Despite ups and downs throughout history, many artisans in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang’s Thoại Sơn District have spared no effort in promoting the arts of stone carving, which has been handed down over many generations.

“We say sorry to the Vietnamese people. Please, forgive us, even if our apology is not sufficient for all Vietnamese people and residents of Hà My village.”

The central province of Quảng Nam, in co-operation with local car producer Trường Hải company, commenced construction of a railway flyover round-about at one of the busiest crossroads on National Highway No 1A, in Núi Thành district, and connection road linking the Chu Lai Port to the Đà Nẵng-Quảng Ngãi Expressway.

As much as VNĐ20 billion (US$878,000) collected from the auction of the ball and jersey with the autographs of all members of U23 Việt Nam team, the runners-up of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship last January, was presented to 20 poor districts of 12 provinces nationwide in Hà Nội on March 11.

In two years’ time, a national land database will be completed and information on land from the smallest administrative unit to the central level would be available. The public will also be able to access the database.

A fire that broke out in the Ia Grai protection forest in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai was brought under control yesterday morning.