Việt Nam News

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved on Thursday US$153 million in concessional financing to support Việt Nam’s National Target Programmes (NTPs) for rural development and reducing poverty, which are central to the government’s strategy for raising rural incomes and productivity.

The director of the Bắc Biển Hồ protection forest’s management unit in Central Highlands' Gia Lai Province has been suspended from work for misconduct in forest land use.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the National Committee of Traffic Safety and the Transport Ministry to take measures against overloaded vehicles, and non-transparent competitiveness in car transport businesses.

Around 84 per cent of residents of the capital city approve of the proposal to limit the use of personal vehicles so as to ease traffic jams.

Around 15 hectares of pepper plants have withered and died in a commune in the central Quảng Bình Province, despite desperate efforts by local farmers to save the plants.

Health insurance profiteering is still common in private hospitals and health clinics, with medicine improperly prescribed and purchased, leading to an imbalance of. the healthcare fund, health experts have said.

The government will offer all possible support to businesses, start-ups and create jobs for workers, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has said.

A salary “bubble” is forming in the IT sector, posing challenges to employers, a workshop heard in HCM City yesterday.

The number of crimes dropped by nearly four per cent in the first six months of the year in comparison with the same period last year, reported the Ministry of Public Security at a press briefing in Hà Nội yesterday.

Coastal central Quảng Trị Province is paying attention to labour export to address challenges faced by locals who suffered from the consequences of last year’s environmental incident.

HCM City Party Committee Secretary Nguyễn Thiện Nhân has urged the city to focus on the role of the private sector and continue to improve competitiveness and administrative reform. 
 

The Embassy of Israel in Việt Nam on Wednesday handed out 15 wheelchairs to children with disabilities who are being treated at the Orthopedics & Rehabilitation Hospital in HCM City.

Despite great efforts, the rate of sex imbalance at birth in Hà Nội remains high, reaching alarming level in several suburban districts, according to the municipal Department of Population and Family Planning.

Five houses fell into the Rạch Giồng-Kinh Lộ River and three houses were damaged after a landslide occurred in Hiệp Phước Commune in HCM City’s Nhà Bè District on Tuesday.

Authorities are seeking ways to relocate hundreds of thousands of households facing the threat of landslides in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces.

The National Salary Council on Tuesday kicked off the first debate on regional minimum wage for 2018. Various options for the wage were recommended, including keeping it unchanged, increasing it by five per cent, six per cent, 6.8 per cent or up to 13.3 per cent compared with the current wage.

Farmers in central Hà Tĩnh Province are experiencing a hard time due to the poor harvest of peanuts and the low price of goober peas.

Police in the central highland province of Lâm Đồng have joined hands with the region’s Forest Protection Division to investigate large-scale deforestation in Đạ Tẻh District early this month.