The south's key economic provinces, such as Đồng Nai, Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu and Bình Dương, have recently shifted focus from agricultural to the non-agricultural sectors, resulting in a serious shortage of agricultural worker during harvest.
Many pavements in Hà Nội were cleared of encroachments in the two months after a campaign was launched to remove illegally parked cars, vendors, cafes, canopies and other obstructions, but the problem has recently resurfaced.
HCM City authorities have been asked to develop a master plan for urban underground spaces to prepare for the opening of subway lines in the city.
The Việt Nam Urban and Industrial Zone Development Investment Corporation yesterday (May 17) opened to traffic the Gò Mây flyover at the intersection of National Highway No.1A and Lê Trọng Tấn, Nguyễn Thị Tú streets in HCM City’s Bình Tân District.
Experts have urged hospitals to update their treatment guidelines in obstetrics and paediatrics to help reduce the number of maternal deaths and medical errors.
The China Eximbank has disbursed US$18.25 million for the Cát Linh–Hà Đông Railway Project, said Vũ Hồng Phương, Deputy Director General of the Railway Project Management Unit under the Ministry of Transport, on Tuesday.
Kwong Lung-Meko Co. Ltd. on Tuesday said it has suffered damages of VNĐ368 billion (US$16.2 million) in the five-day fire in Cần Thơ City’s Trà Nóc Industrial Zone in March.
Traffic accidents cost Việt Nam 2.5 per cent of its annual GDP as per World Health Organization estimates, said Khuất Việt Hùng, vice-chairman of the National Committee for Safe Traffic.
HCM City police have released their investigation report on a suspected case of sexual harassment of a girl student at a primary school in Thủ Đức District.
Some 1,900 computers in Việt Nam have been attacked by WannaCry virus, so far – one of the largest-ever cyber-attacks affecting computers across the globe.
Although Việt Nam’s shrimp production has potentials to become the country’s spearhead economy with predicted export turnover reaching US$10 billion by 2025, the sector is facing challenges of small-scale production and limitation in shrimp breeding stocks, said Trần Đình Luân, deputy head of Directorate of Fisheries under Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
HCM City plans to introduce 800 new buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) by the end of this year.
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Việt Nam plans to more than triple the number of enterprises owned and run by ethnic minority groups by next year in a bid to tap into the full potential of these groups and reduce poverty.
The Government has ordered the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of National Defense to co-operate closely with all Provincial Departments of Construction to make public the lists of real estate projects which foreign organisations and individuals will be unable to own.
Twenty young leaders from Việt Nam and Australia representing the arts, finance, technology, philanthropy, business, start-ups, education and healthcare are meeting in Sydney sharing ideas for the inaugural Australia-Việt Nam Young Leadership Dialogue.
The Get Home Safe event, held on Monday to raise awareness about traffic regulations, featured a six-minute video about the fatal consequences caused by motorbike and truck drivers who fail to obey traffic rules.
Specific policies and mechanisms are needed to draw investment and hasten the progress of the North-South Expressway. However, they must be conducted in an open and transparent manner, said Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình at a recent meeting on the project.
Almost half the country’s provinces have set up a centre for disease control by merging their centres for preventive health, prevention of HIV/AIDS, malaria and others, and the Ministry of Health wants the rest to follow suit.
The central city’s construction department has asked the city’s public security department to investigate illegal transaction of apartments of the Mường Thanh Apartment project in Đà Nẵng.
Cardiac rehabilitation, a medically supervised programme including exercises, should be provided to patients with heart problems for them to recover after surgery, a Japanese physical therapist has told a training workshop on cadiopulmonary exercise testing.
