Việt Nam News

Since 2012, Lieutenant Colonel Ngô Minh Tuệ of Hải Phòng City Police has assisted the families of 22 fishermen in moving from small boats—vulnerable to overturning amid waves caused by cargo ships—to homes in a new village in Máy Chai Commune.

Some VNĐ4.64 billion (US$206,000) was collected by the Korea Chamber of Commerce & Industry HCM City (KOCHAM HCMC) at the 14^th KOCHAM Charity Night, organized on Friday in HCM City.

HCM City and Military telecom group Viettel on November 17 signed an agreement to develop the southern metropolis into a smart city during 2017-2020.

Leaders of the HCM City Party Committee and People’s Committee on Friday had a meeting with educators in the city on occasion of the 35th anniversary of Việt Nam Teachers’ Day (November 20).

A Vietnamese pilot was killed in a mid-air crash between a helicopter and an aircraft in the United Kingdom, the Ministry of National Defence announced on Sunday.

Traditional slaughterhouses in HCM City must either close down or modernise their facilities and relocate to outlying districts by the end of the year, Vũ Văn Hoan, the spokesman for HCM City People’s Committee, has said.

The HCM City Department of Construction has called for amending the agricultural zoning master plan, promoting housing development and changing the construction inspection model to reduce violations, which increased by 16 per cent year-on-year in the first 10 months of this year.

Nearly 1,000 people registered to donate their tissue and organs at a health festival in the northern province of Nam Định on Friday.

Representatives from twenty five traditional medicine and pharmaceutical producers joined a workshop last Friday in Hà Nội, focusing on promoting sustainable harvesting and fair trade practices as part of their corporate social responsibility (CSR), in particular through the application of the FairWild Standard.

For six years, Vũ Văn Quang has helped hundreds of students cross the road safely. His two daily shifts at Trung Sơn Trầm Primary School, from 10 to 10:45 in the morning and from 16:15 to 17:00 in the afternoon, are inspired by disturbing accidents he saw years ago.

The pơ-mu (Fujian cypress) forest in Yên Bái Province once protected water resources and prevented soil erosion, but in recent years, it has become exploited to the point of destruction. But not everyoned is prepared to admit this.

“Everyone has their own interest. For me,  rescuing wild animals is my passion,” said Nguyễn Thanh Long from the Central Highlands’s province of Đắk Lắk.

An inter-departmental team of officials will study the 10 areas with the worst traffic congestion in HCM City and recommend measures to ease the problem by year-end.

Proactive preparations are urged in the face of an incoming tropical depression which is likely to strengthen into a typhoon over the next 24-48 hours, the central steering on natural disaster prevention said.

The Ministry of Construction and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) yesterday organised a training workshop on management of construction projects in Việt Nam.

Sustainable agricultural development was the key to the global sustainable development, and breeding played an important role in Việt Nam’s development and growth, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Lê Quốc Doanh.

 Community-based care for the elderly, a pilot programme in the northern Ninh Bình Province, has helped hundreds of elderly people access better healthcare services.