Việt Nam News

According to the Hà Nội Preventine Medicine Centre, from the beginning of the year, some diseases like whooping cough, measles, rubella, dengue fever, and streptococcal infection have seen a trend of increased occurrence in the city.

Rural decline has emerged as a worldwide phenomenon as urbanisation and globalisation have dominated the world’s development during the past decades, according to experts.

It has been three years but Ngô Văn Long still remembers exactly the day he had an accident on the Highway 6 as one of his most fearful memories in his life.

The authorized agencies of Hà Nội are taking measures to restore security and order in Đồng Tâm commune, Mỹ Đức district, where chaos have broken out since late 2016 due to the reclamation of a defence land plot.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has instructed the southern province of Bình Thuận to continue developing tourism, one of its three key economic pillars, to become one among top developing locality in the south-central region.

Residents of a social housing project in Hà Nội are complaining that while the infrastructure is deteriorating, their rent keeps rising and is way beyond what State employees can afford.

Doctors have urged the elderly and children to stay out of the heat as temperatures have climbed in recent days.

The Sài Gòn Water Corporation (Sawaco) has asked the HCM City government to build five reservoirs in the next eight years to ensure clean water supply for residents.

The HCM City Department of Health has instructed general hospitals to improve emergency aid treatment in an aim to reduce overcrowding at the city’s Chợ Rẫy Hospital.

A smart traffic operation centre in HCM City will receive an investment of VNĐ6 trillion (US$263 million) from 2017 to 2020, the city’s Department of Transportation has said.

Four provinces in Việt Nam have reported six outbreaks of bird flu, according to the Department of Animal Health.

The People’s Court of Hà Nội today sentenced 11 defendants in a fraud case that occurred at the Agriculture and Rural Development Bank, Nghệ An Branch, eight years ago.

The northern province of Quảng Ninh has decided to crack down on shops that sell souvenirs at astronomical rates and tourist companies that offer substandard tours.

Opportunities to invest in Việt Nam’s solar energy sector are abundant after Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc issued a decision to encourage the development of solar power projects.

HCM City authorities have asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment and Ministry of Finance to allocate an additional VNĐ48.762 trillion (US$2.14 billion) of official development assistance (ODA) in the next three years, with VNĐ8 trillion ($352.33 million) allocated for this year.

HCM City authorities are struggling to reach the target of having wastewater treatment systems at all export processing zones, industrial parks and industrial complexes by 2020.

Big data research is the key element to help Việt Nam boost the Internet of Things (IoT) and apply smart urban technology, the rector of the Korea-Việt Nam Friendship Information Technology College, Hoàng Bảo Hùng, said at the opening of the 7th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICTST) in Đà Nẵng yesterday.

Of the 407 petrol stations to be opened in HCM City from now until 2030, 62 of them will be on boats on local waterways.