Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs needs to set up a council to assess and define poor districts in order to support fast and sustainable poverty reduction, Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ said yesterday.

Lương Hậu Tân, director of the Mường Chà District Health Centre in the northern highland province of Điện Biên, says he has seen an increasing number of suicide attempts by villagers drinking weed killers.

The HCM City Department of Information and Communication is working with companies to provide free wi-fi for 100,000 workers by 2019.

The rainy season is a peak time for infectious diseases, and the last few weeks have seen a surge in the number of patients with dengue fever.

Ensuring social security, knowledge and stable incomes for workers is a top priority for Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Việt Nam, Deputy Minister of  Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Doãn Mậu Diệp, said yesterday. He spoke at the opening of a Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) from these countries in central Đà Nẵng City.

Repairing newly-built substandard offshore fishing vessels is a matter of great economic, political and social significance that should be done immediately, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng said yesterday.

As many as 164 fire fighting police teams across Việt Nam took part in the first national search and rescue competition held yesterday by Ministry of Public Security.

The central city plans to develop two new urban in Ngũ Hành Sơn and Hòa Vang districts on total area of more than 1,000ha later this year.

The Hòa Bình People’s Committee on Monday temporarily stopped two companies from exploiting sand and gravel from the Đà River in Kỳ Sơn District.

Self-modified three-wheel vehicles will be strictly controlled before completely banning their operation in m2018, said Vũ Văn Diện, deputy chairman of northern Quảng Ninh Province’s People Committee.

The Hà Nội People’s Court on Monday sent out a strong message by handing the death penalty to one drug trafficker and a life sentence to another in two cases.

Policies that aim to support disadvantaged labourers should cater to each type of labourer in society, experts have said.

The city plans to install security camera systems to supervise security, traffic and forest protection in the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve as a part of security camera project launched in the city in 2015.

The Hà Nội police on Monday detained a welder who was working at a bakery when the building caught fire, killing eight people most of whom were teens, on Saturday.

Experts discussed nanoelectronics, nano equipment, superconductivity, magneto-resistive materials and strongly correlated systems at a scientific conference that opened on Monday in Quy Nhơn City, the central province of Bình Định.  

Three people were killed and one injured when the eave of a house in Vũng Tàu City’s Long Sơn Commune in Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu Province collapsed on Sunday.

Establishments can publicise the information at meetings, post the information at their headquarters or issue publications on their budget estimates and balance.

The July 29 bakery fire that claimed the lives of eight workers, mostly teens, once again highlights the lax fire safety practices in factories and warehouses in the capital city.