The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in co-operation with the central Quảng Ngãi Province, has handed over 40 ‘safe’ houses to poor people living in flood and storm vulnerable communes in the province.
The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecast reported rainfall of 30-50mm in the northern mountainous provinces of Lào Cai, Yên Bái and Hòa Bình on Monday morning.
Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has urged HCM City to boost the application of high technology in tracing the origins of food products as a way to gradually change the habits of production and consumption to improve awareness of food safety.
Many anti-landslide projects in HCM City are lagging behind schedule due to limited capital resources and slow progress of land clearance and compensation, according to the city’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Efforts to restore and upgrade National Highway 12B section in Nho Quan district and Tam Điệp city of Ninh Bình Province will likely not be completed by late June as scheduled due to lack of progress on ground clearance.
The Radio Frequency Directorate has opened an electro-magnetic compatibility (EMC) 10-metre testing laboratory in HCM City.
The recent instances of cooking gas cylinders exploding is due to fraudulent practices by suppliers, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has said.
Localities need to set up plans for hi-tech agricultural areas in accordance with regional growing and climate conditions.
Young Vietnamese entrepreneurs must pay attention to six crucial steps in order to successfully found a startup business, said CEO of Startup Việt Nam Foundation (SVF) Phạm Duy Hiếu at a forum held on Friday in Hải Phòng.
The 19th Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO) kicked off at Hà Nội’s University of Science and Technology on May 6, attracting the participation of 188 contestants from 25 countries and territories.
Nearly 800 HCM City officials and members and volunteers of the Việt Nam Red Cross Society took part in the annual celebration of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement held on May 5.
The HCM City Department of Health on May 5 began a campaign to mark ASEAN Dengue Day on June 15.
The third edition of the IoT Startup Competition was launched on May 5 by the Saigon Hi-Tech Park Incubation Center and the Startup Vietnam Foundation.
Members of the Central Key Economic Region are seeking for an institutional framework from the government for the cooperation within the region as the members failed to have a common ground for it.
A special task force has been set up to strengthen social order and security at transit points and in buses during peak hours in the capital city of Hà Nội.
Leading business groups in the Asia Pacific region recently set up a comprehensive cooperation programme called M2030 that aims to raise awareness about and funds to combat malaria in the region.
An action month for the environment will be launched next month with the theme “Resolving pollution caused by plastic and nylon”.
Lác farmers in Vĩnh Long Province’s Vũng Liêm District are enjoying a bumper harvest and high prices.
Director of the Agriculture and Rural Development Department in central Quảng Nam province dismissed some local forest rangers for their failure to prevent deforestation, which came to light recently.
Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of An Giang switched to growing other crops on 20,000ha of paddy fields during the 2017-18 winter-spring crop, earning big profits and managing to cope with climate change.
