Việt Nam News

Innovative manufacturing is key to increasing productivity and sustainability as Viet Nam confronts the fourth industrial revolution challenges, experts say.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has called on society as a whole to collaborate in meeting the United Nations’ 90-90-90 Goals in HIV/AIDS prevention and control by 2020.

The project to make HCM City a smart city in 2017 -20 was approved and publicly announced on Sunday.

Twenty three lecturers at the College of Technology II and 17 workers at six wastewater companies have received certificates of German standard equivalence after completing a training programme for sewage engineering technicians.

The second Lục Ngạn fruit festival 2017, held in the northern mountain province of Bắc Giang on Saturday, has helped promote high quality fruit products and create opportunities for business enterprises to boost close links with each other, as well as with consumers in domestic markets, said officials.

Scientists and doctors with excellent contributions to reproductive health in Việt Nam on Saturday were given Achievement Awards.

An initiative for managing natural disasters was introduced on Friday in the context of increasing extreme weather events in Việt Nam.

The Quảng Nam People’s Committee collaborated with other functional forces to organise rehabilitation exercises for radiation and other nuclear incidents yesterday.

The Ministry of Education and Training recently proposed raising teachers’ salaries, but it’s unclear whether this will be approved given the small portion of the State budget spent on education, according to experts.

Statistics from countries whose senior citizens continue working show no increase in unemployment rate of young workers, an official of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Việt Nam said.

Việt Nam’s agricultural sector should focus on developing the economic value of domestic plant varieties by ensuring their output and protecting branding, instead of importing large amounts of other plant varieties. Otherwise, typical and valuable local species will disappear, experts have warned.

Việt Nam has a great opportunity to use information technology in teaching English since 70 per cent of the country’s population use the internet and broadband internet connection is available in every village, Assoc Prof Dr Nguyễn Văn Long, vice rector of the University of Foreign Language Studies, said yesterday.

The College of Business Administration and Management signed an agreement on November 23 for offering "double vocational training" for Vietnamese students in Germany with German non-profit education and training organisation SBH Group.

It is estimated that Việt Nam has lost VNĐ45,000 billion (US$2 billion) due to natural disasters this year, Nguyễn Đỗ Anh Tuấn, director of the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development (IPSARD) under the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD), said.

Twelve technology transfer contracts worth more than US$10 million have been signed among scientific application centres nationwide and foreign partners at the technology demonstration and connection conference (TechDemo) in Da Nang, the Department for Technology and Science Application and Promotion under the Ministry of Science and Technology said.

The northwest was rich in social-cultural diversity, unique natural attributes and enormous agro-ecological potentials. Its strategic location was within reach of some of the largest and fastest growing regional and local agri-food markets.

 Police in northern Hà Nam Province on Thursday arrested a woman for allegedly torturing an infant.

A new book highlighting the history and rich bio-diversity of the Sơn Trà Nature Reserve and public efforts to take on developers and other encroachers there was released on Thursday in HCM City.