Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) will tighten control over company equitisation and impose strict penalties on irresponsible leaders who delay this process, Deputy Minister Hà Công Tuấn said at a conference in Hà Nội yesterday.

The Ministry of Education and Training will soon officially ask that schools nationwide review their facilities and stop using any deemed to be unsafe, according to the vice head of the ministry’s Department of Facilities and School Equipment, Phạm Hùng Anh.

HCM City will undertake 14 projects to prevent erosion, including dredging of vulnerable waterways, at a cost of over VNĐ1.7 trillion (US$75 million) this year, according to its Inland Waterway Management Division.

The Ministry of Health has asked people across the country to take protective measures against hand, foot, and mouth disease after data from the ministry’s General Department of Preventive Medicine showed that over 2,100 people had contracted the disease in 57 localities this year.

New soldiers at the enlistment ceremony in Yên Bái City.

A new technique that helps improve water drainage in urban areas has been proposed by a Japanese company. The technique will help clean underground pipelines without digging them up, saving energy and cost, and can be applied in emergencies.

Police have arrested three more men in a criminal ring accused of using psychotropic drugs to commit frauds in the central province of Thanh Hóa.

Northern Quảng Ninh Province will temporarily halt work of all cruise ships with wood cover, which were originally transformed from ferries, for safety reasons.

The first case of totally drug-resistant tuberculosis in the southern province of Đồng Nai is being treated at the provincial Lung Hospital.

Hospitals in Hà Nội are experiencing an ongoing shortage of blood for transfusions due to a spike in the number of patients admitted to hospital for treatment after the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

At least seven people died following a suspected case of food poisoning in the northern mountainous province of Lai Châu on Monday, the provincial People’s Committee reported.

An explosion occurred on Tuesday in the city of Nha Trang, in the central province of Khanh Hoa, killing one man and severely injuring a further two.

Two children were killed and several other people were injured, two grievously, in the southern province of Bình Dương yesterday when a public transport bus crashed into a car and several motorbikes at a traffic signal.

 The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has decided to adjust its construction plan for the North-South Expressway linking Hà Nội and HCM City due to a funding shortfall.

HCM City Party Secretary Đinh La Thăng has urged the People’s Committee to begin work on laying a pipeline to bring water to the city from Dầu Tiếng Dam in Tây Ninh Province.

The city of Đà Nẵng has started a pre-feasibility study to relocate the city’s railway station and redevelop the space with an urban project at a total cost of VNĐ15.44 trillion (US$683.2 million).

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) agreed with a proposal of Hà Nội’s People’s Committee to lower the elevation of Hồng (Red) river dyke and asked the local authorities to map out an itinerary.

It is a messy situation in issuing and monitoring the implementation of Việt Nam's current regulations on construction.