Việt Nam News

A lack of cutting-edge technologies, unrealistic policies, and a failure to take advantage of local expertise and knowledge are constraining agricultural development in the country, experts have said.

Lê Văn Hồng, a member of the H’Mông minority in Krông Bông District of the Central Highland province of Đắk Lắk, had decided to send his two sons, aged 10 and 15, to work for a garment factory in the south.

HCM City authorities are seeking funding approval from the Prime Minister for 36 flood-prevention projects worth a total of VNĐ9.96 trillion (US$438 million). 

 Despite positive steps in anti-drug, drug smuggling continues seemingly unabated, especially in border areas.

Prolonged exploitation of sand and coarse gravel in rivers is changing currents and causing embankment erosion, which puts the dyke systems under risk, the Dyke Management Department said on Tuesday.

Police from the northern province of Hưng Yên have seized over 540 litres of wine without clear origin papers in Toàn Thắng Commune’s Trương Xá Village.

 The Ministry of Public Security has invited comments from relevant agencies on its draft to allow holding auctions for car licence plates.

According to the Hà Nội Preventine Medicine Centre, from the beginning of the year, some diseases like whooping cough, measles, rubella, dengue fever, and streptococcal infection have seen a trend of increased occurrence in the city.

Rural decline has emerged as a worldwide phenomenon as urbanisation and globalisation have dominated the world’s development during the past decades, according to experts.

It has been three years but Ngô Văn Long still remembers exactly the day he had an accident on the Highway 6 as one of his most fearful memories in his life.

The authorized agencies of Hà Nội are taking measures to restore security and order in Đồng Tâm commune, Mỹ Đức district, where chaos have broken out since late 2016 due to the reclamation of a defence land plot.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has instructed the southern province of Bình Thuận to continue developing tourism, one of its three key economic pillars, to become one among top developing locality in the south-central region.

Residents of a social housing project in Hà Nội are complaining that while the infrastructure is deteriorating, their rent keeps rising and is way beyond what State employees can afford.

The Sài Gòn Water Corporation (Sawaco) has asked the HCM City government to build five reservoirs in the next eight years to ensure clean water supply for residents.

Doctors have urged the elderly and children to stay out of the heat as temperatures have climbed in recent days.

The HCM City Department of Health has instructed general hospitals to improve emergency aid treatment in an aim to reduce overcrowding at the city’s Chợ Rẫy Hospital.

A smart traffic operation centre in HCM City will receive an investment of VNĐ6 trillion (US$263 million) from 2017 to 2020, the city’s Department of Transportation has said.

Four provinces in Việt Nam have reported six outbreaks of bird flu, according to the Department of Animal Health.