Việt Nam News

HCM City is eyeing bottom-up administrative reforms, a meeting between city leaders and commune and ward leaders heard on Tuesday.

More than 80 per cent of respondents surveyed about the proposed train design for the city’s metro line 3 rated the plans highly and over 90 per cent of them said they would love to try the new means of transport when the metro line is officially operational.

Quảng Ngãi Marine Port Authority yesterday organised a search and rescue drill at sea in Bình Thuận Commune, Bình Sơn District, central province of Quảng Ngãi.

HCM City should learn lessons from major cities in developed countries on how to become a smart city, speakers said at an international conference held on Sept 28 in the city.

Poverty alleviation programmes aiming to help people in mountainous areas of central Quảng Ngãi Province are ineffective and unsustainable, local authorities said.

HCM City authorities have decided to increase parking fees at all lots run by private operators in the inner city from October 1.

Nearly 28,000 out of 154,000 food businesses in Hà Nội were found to have violated food safety regulations and faced fines of more than VNĐ14 billion (US$594,700) since August last year.

Local people in craft villages that make fishing nets and other tools are now busy serving the needs of fishermen during the annual flooding season.

The use of agricultural by-products for feeding livestock and as substrate for other crops has helped farmers around the country earn extra incomes while also protecting the environment.

A group of students from the Foreign Trade University of Hà Nội won first prize at the ‘Start-up Francophone 2018’ competition during the regional final round held on Friday in Hà Nội.

Kids at HCM City’s Tân Bình District Kindergarten yesterday saw a skit that showed them how to push straws into empty cartons after drinking milk and then flattening, folding and disposing of the cartons properly to save space and make their collection, sorting and recycling easier.

The British Embassy launched a safe motorbike riding campaign called “Know Safety No Accidents” on Thursday (Sept 28) in HCM City.

The People’s Committee of Hà Nội has approved a plan to deploy a rapid alert system on food safety for the 2018-20 period.

The Việt Nam Business Coalition for Women’s Empowerment (VBCWE), a new coalition of large employers committed to ensuring gender equality within their businesses and beyond, launched in Hà Nội on Thursday.

Part of a suspended platform fell down from the16th floor of an under-construction building on Hà Nội’s Lê Văn Lương Street late Thursday afternoon, killing a female motorbike driver who was passing by at that time.

Authorities in the northern province of Bắc Ninh are testing food samples taken from Ninh Xá Primary School as 52 students of the school suffered from food poisoning after eating lunch at school on Thursday.

Bạch Đằng Trading-Service Joint Stock Company on Thursday proposed restoring an old 84-km section of Tháp Chàm- Đà Lạt railway, with total investment of more than VNĐ8.2 trillion (US$351.7 million) in the form of a public-private-partnership (PPP).

There is a Vietnamese saying about parents’ care-giving: “When young, one relies on one’s father, and when old, one relies on one’s children”.