Việt Nam News

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.

The Việt Nam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) interest rate for social housing loans in 2017 will be 4.8 per cent per annum, or 0.4 per cent a month, according to a decision just signed by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

Japan’s Arrowfield Co. Ltd. has signed an agreement with Việt Nam Farmers’ Association on providing support for the growth and development of agriculture and farmers in Việt Nam.

Network service providers and individuals are required to get permission from parents, guardians and children above the age of seven before publishing private information of any child on the internet from July 1.

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today US$155 million in financing to strengthen the research, teaching, and institutional capacity of three universities and improve the management of Việt Nam’s higher education system.

Energy officials from the APEC economies are working with the business community to improve human resource development and resolve skill gaps that can affect the sector’s employment and growth potential.

 The Airport Corporation of Việt Nam (ACV) has submitted to the Ministry of Transport a plan to set up a centre for aviation security at airports nationwide.

The Mekong Delta will disappear in the next several decades once Pak Beng Dam and another 10 planned hydropower dams are built on the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia, delegates warned at a conference on Saturday in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ.

The Việt Nam Expressway Corporation (VEC) yesterday began a new system of collecting tolls using smart cards on the HCM City-Long Thành-Dầu Giây Expressway, which connects HCM City and Đồng Nai Province.  

Việt Nam needs some 200,000 logistics personnel from now until 2025 but its current logistics training capacity is unable to meet that demand, according to the Việt Nam Association of Logistic Service Enterprise (VLA).

Nguyễn Văn Thiết had dreamed of winning the ASEAN Skills Competition, but when his parents insisted that he apply for university, his hopes were dashed.

Police of the central province of Nghệ An yesterday detained a man for allegedly opposing officials on duty and abusing his rights to freedom and democracy to infringe on State interests and the rights and interests of organisations and individuals.