Việt Nam News

Speeding on their motorbikes cost two young men their lives yesterday afternoon in HCM City’s District 2.

The National Action Month on Population with the theme of conducting early prenatal and newborn diagnosis and treatment to improve the population’s quality was launched on Saturday in Hà Nội.

A midwife-training programme has achieved noticeable success with a marked reduction in the number of mothers giving birth at home as well as childbirth complications and deaths.

Wearing helmets and driving slowly are two of the measures promoted to ensure traffic safety for children, announced at a ceremony launching the ‘Go home safely’ campaign in Hà Nội on Saturday, which calls for community action to ensure kids are safe on the roads.

For fourteen years, Trương Văn Kiểm has helped hundreds of poor households have durable and safe homes.

Residents of a village near Phú Bài Airport in central Thừa Thiên- Huế Province have reported that pressure from airplanes taking off has damaged their roofs.

Night after night, thousands of cubic metres of sand and gravel have been illegally mined from a portion of the Cầu River, causing erosion and affecting the dyke system for 200ha of agricultural land, online newspaper phapluatplus.vn reports.

Seven fishermen from Bình Định Province were rescued at sea yesterday after their boat encountered difficulties in rough conditions on Saturday morning.

Eighteen million Mekong Delta residents are suffering serious consequences as the Mekong River is drying up due to over exploitation of hydropower plants in upstream countries, delegates heard at Friday’s conference in the Delta province of An Giang.

Sixteen student teams from eight universities in HCM City participated in the Tourism Ideas Contest held in the HCM City’s Bình Thạnh District.

 The UN Women and the Australian Embassy in Vietnam are calling on labourers to participate in an online survey to assess the effects of the revision of the Labour Code on men, women and different labour groups in society. 

There has been a 91 per cent reduction in the amount of goods controlled by the Ministry of Science and Technology inspected before customs clearance.

Retirement is the time for people to enjoy their lives, but a group of war veterans in the central province of Khánh Hòa want to devote their tgwilight years helping comrades in need. The veterans have set up a health clinic to provide free check-ups, health counselling and medicine to fellow veterans who lack health insurance cards or are victims of agent orange.

HCM City has approved the extension of the city’s first metro route, which links Bến Thành Market with Suối Tiên Theme Park in District 9, to the neighbouring provinces of Bình Dương and Đồng Nai.

The 10^th HCM City Book Fair will be held from March 19-25 at District 1’s Lê Văn Tám Park, according to the city’s Department of Information and Communication.

With suitable weather for a tropical plant which requires high humidity, Sơn La northern mountain province is becoming a good region for development of macadamia tree. The province is expected to gain a target of 1,000ha of macadamia tree by 2020.

More than 30 booths manned by 24 individuals and groups introduce more than 100 products made by young people at a start-up festival in Huế in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province yesterday.

Fifty percent of all communes across the country are expected to be recognised as new-style rural areas in 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) stated at a conference in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ on December 8.