City aims to improve admin services

HCM City’s People’s Committee targets having more than 80 per cent of local residents and organisations satisfied with public administrative services by 2020.

Researchers make use of medical waste

For nearly 30 years, researchers at the Faculty of Tissue, Embryo and Genetics under Phạm Ngọc Thạch Medical University have been making use of amniotic membrane, which is commonly treated as medical waste and discarded. Under their hands, it has been processed to heal wounds and corneal damage instead.

Da Nang investigates assault on reporter

The central city’s people’s committee has asked the local public security department to investigate an assault on a reporter at a bar in the city’s downtown on Sunday. The investigation agency must report on the case before Wednesday.

Community to raise ideas for ‘smart city’

The central city of Đà Nẵng has invited local residents, tourists and foreigners living in the city to offer ideas and suggestions for developing Đà Nẵng as a smart city.

Toll to be reduced on National Highway 18

Toll on a stretch of National Highway 18 in coastal Quảng Ninh province will be reduced for Cẩm Phả City and Vân Đồn Ward residents from Wednesday midnight, said the province’s People’s Committee.

Five killed in fire in Đà Lạt

Five persons were confirmed dead after a fire broke out at a house in Central Highlands’ Lâm Đồng Province’s Đà Lạt City on Monday night.

$66b invested in Greater Mekong Sub-region: ADB official

The Greater Mekong, including Việt Nam, is expected to have a colossal US$66 billion poured in to strengthen regional economic co-operation in the next five years, said an Asian Development Bank (ADB) official on Tuesday.

Public in favour of capital’s underground train station plan

Locating an underground station (Terminal C9) for the city’s urban railway project near Hoàn Kiếm Lake is reasonable, Đào Ngọc Nghiêm, deputy chairman of the Hà Nội Association for Urban Development and Planning told Tiền Phong newspaper (the Vanguard).

Bus stops need renovating to attract riders

After a long decline, in 2017, for the first time the number of bus riders in Hà Nội has witnessed the increase of more than three per cent. According to experts, the improvement of bus stops and shelters can enhance the public transport’s attraction to passengers.

Intellectual property court on way

The establishment of an intellectual property court in Việt Nam is in sight but has yet to be completed, a deputy chief inspector of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) has said.

600 workers abandoned by Texwell Vina find new jobs

Some 1,700 out of 1,928 workers at the Korean-owned Texwell Vina Company, which has closed and whose managers have fled the country, have received unemployment benefits while more than 600 have found new jobs, Đồng Nai Province authorities have reported.

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