Việt Nam News

In the face of abnormal and serious flooding over the past few days, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc cancelled a scheduled meeting with voters in Hai Phong City yesterday, travelling instead to the northern province of Ninh Binh to check on local dykes. 

Rooftop solar power in Việt Nam could be smoothly integrated into the national grid, energy experts said yesterday at a seminar in Hà Nội.

Thousands of residents in the ancient city of Hội An have gone days without running water in their homes due to a saline intrusion, said Nguyễn Văn Dũng, Chairman of the city’s People’s Committee.

The HCM City Department of Health plans to issue a health tourism handbook for domestic and foreign tourists by the end of the year.

Managers of science parks, high-tech parks, famous scientists and heads of scientific and technology organisations from around the world will gather in HCM City for the 21^st annual conference of the Asian Science Park Association later this month.

No one wants to risk their lives for a life threatening job. However, a number of residents from the northern province of Hòa Bình still engage to the job as they are so poor.

Lack of funds has been blamed for the slow progress of plans to relocate residents of 20,000 houses in slums along canals and rivers in HCM City, Vietnam News Agency reported.

The Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) on Thursday released emergency aid of more than VND950 million to help flood affected households in northern Yên Bái, Sơn La, Hòa Bình and central Thanh Hoá and Nghệ An provinces.

Universities in the country are expanding academic programmes that encourage students to take part in the startup culture, HCM City Party Secretary Nguyễn Thiện Nhân said yesterday at a ceremony marking the beginning of the academic year.

 An eight-year-old primary school student in the central province of Quang Nam has died of diphtheria, while six other students aged four to 12 have been infected with the disease in the mountainous Trà Vân commune of Nam Trà My District.

More than 600 CEOs and human resource managers at local and global companies discussed the latest trends in building an engaged, efficient and loyal workforce at a workshop yesterday in HCM City.

Việt Nam should have a long-term programme on mycological research as the country has a tropical climate, a favourable condition for developing fungi, the chairman of the Vietnam Mycological Association has said. 

Phạm Sanh Châu, Vietnamese candidate for the director-general position of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), withdrew his name prior to the third round of voting on Wednesday.

Two gas stations in Diễn Châu and Quỳnh Lưu districts of the central province of Nghệ An have been found selling diluted, low quality A92 gasoline in large quantities.

The capital city has managed to build only 17 out of 80 schools that meet national standards as per this year’s plan.

Hundreds of thousands of households living along Lô River have been desperately seeking for help from authorised agencies as their cultivated land are at serious risks of being swept away due to rampant illegal sand mining.

Starting in 2002 by breeding 2,000 hens, Nguyễn Thị Thêu, a woman from northern Vĩnh Phúc Province, now earns about VNĐ5 billion (US$224,000) a year and creates job for dozens of  workers.  

Violations of construction regulations have been increasing in HCM City despite sanctions imposed by the city, according to the city’s Construction Department’s inspection division.