Việt Nam News

The southern province of Bình Dương plans to seek more partnerships with neighbouring cities and provinces, businesses and local and international experts to build a Bình Dương smart city, Mai Hùng Dũng, deputy chairman of the province’s People’s Committee, said at a press conference on November 23.

Advanced training programmes are needed to improve human resources working in the high-tech agriculture sector, experts have said.

The World Wide Fund for Nature Việt Nam (WWF) opened a forest plantation exhibition yesterday on certified sustainable wood furniture.

The HCM City chapter of the Việt Nam Red Cross Society on November 21 organised a ceremony to mark the charity organisation’s 71^st anniversary on November 23 in the country and honour 71 philanthropists.

Recent heavy rains and floods have seriously damaged National Highway No. 16 in central Nghệ An, leading to a "red alert" situation.

Residents of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum have to collect water from springs for daily use as the water supply works in the province have degraded.

A freight train service between Hà Nội and Nanchang City in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi was launched on Wednesday.

About 60,000 sq.m of pavements in the central districts of Hà Nội are being misused as parking areas, blocking pedestrians and degrading footpath quality, Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper reports.

New provisions on tourist guide licences in the Law on Tourism, which takes effect next year, will probably take away occupational opportunities of thousands of tourist guides in the country and lead to serious shortage of human resource in this sector, experts have said.

Continuous heavy rain since Sunday evening worsened the inundation in lowland areas in the central provinces of Thừa Thiên-Huế and Quảng Trị, with three people reported dead.

A number of high-quality buses will be used on a trial run on bus routes No. 03 and 33 in December, the HCM City Department of Transport said on Tuesday (November 21).

Pediatric hospitals in HCM City have received four children diagnosed with malaria, including three patients from the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông and one from the southern province of Bình Phước.

Việt Nam targets a GDP growth rate for agriculture at 3 per cent per year by 2020 following an agricultural restructure plan that has been approved by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

More than 6,000 people with disabilities in HCM City and 16 neighbouring cities and provinces will take part in the 18th Camp for People with Disabilities at Suối Tiên Theme Park in HCM City’s District 9 on December 2.

A campaign to end physical violence against children at home and at school was launched on Wednesday morning.

Transport Minister, Nguyễn Văn Thể, shut down the project on expanding part of National Highway No 30, running through the southern provinces of Đồng Tháp and Tiền Giang.