Việt Nam News

Hà Nội has paid more attention to collecting and treating packaging of plant protection products and veterinary medicines after use, reported Kinh Tế and Đô Thị (Economy and Urban Affairs) newspaper.

 Hundreds of university and college graduates who studied farming and breeding will be assigned to work in agricultural cooperatives beginning this year.

Digital technology and social media are powerful in supporting Việt Nam’s goal to eliminate HIV by 2030, it was announced at a forum yesterday.

The Ministry of Health plans to start giving measles vaccine to children in their sixth month instead of the ninth, Deputy Health Minister Nguyễn Thanh Long has said.

Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV), a non-governmental organisation working on wildlife conversation in Việt Nam, on Thursday, submitted an appeal to the Hà Nội People’s Court.

The Ministry of Transport has agreed to upgrade an airport in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, aiming to boost the development of this central locality and its neighbours.

Hòa Bình General Hospital has resumed kidney dialysis for patients after suspending the procedure following the death of eight persons in May last year.

Recently, some persons from other localities came to Quảng Phú Commune, K'Rông Nô District, in the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) province of Đắk Nông to recruit Mông ethnic minority children to work illegally at HCM City.

Victims of a deadly fire on Friday early morning at a HCM City’s apartment building died from suffocation, said Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyễn Thanh Hưởng, deputy director of the city’s Department of Firefighting Police.

Hưởng said the death toll was 13 as of 8am on Friday. 28 others were injured.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) asked provinces and cities on Thursday to dissolve ineffective agricultural cooperatives by the end of 2018.

Cần Thơ has launched a project to improve the efficiency of advanced farming models in semi-urban areas.

Oysters have brought good life for people in Long Sơn Commune, Vũng Tàu City, but they use fiber cement roofing sheet to make cages thus local authorities concerned that toxic material would affect the environment and consumers’ health.

Bình Dương southern province’s authorities and police raided a house Thursday and discovered an illegal gas supplying racket.

A fire broke out at an apartment block in District 8’s Carina Plaza early Friday morning (March 23), killing 13 and injuring 14, and leaving others trapped inside, according to the HCM City’s Fire Prevention and Fighting Department.

Cybersecurity experts have advised users not to share private information on social media networks in light of a recent incident in which some 50 million Facebook users’ information was collected without their consent.

The section of the Sài Gòn River from HCM City to Bình Dương Province will be dredged in what will be the country’s first build-operate-transfer waterway project.

Hà Nội earned VNĐ7.955 trillion (US$349 million) from auctioning land-use rights last year, pushing the total revenue it earned from land up to VNĐ37 trillion ($1.62 billion).

Tens of thousands of people from all walks of life as well as current and former leaders attended the memorial service of former PM Phan Văn Khải yesterday morning at HCM City’s Thống Nhất Hall and International Conference Centre in Hà Nội.