Việt Nam News

More than 30 booths manned by 24 individuals and groups introduce more than 100 products made by young people at a start-up festival in Huế in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province yesterday.

Fifty percent of all communes across the country are expected to be recognised as new-style rural areas in 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) stated at a conference in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ on December 8.

Việt Nam must step up efforts to ensure 90 per cent of HIV-infected people will receive sustained antiretroviral (ARV) therapy by 2020, in line with the international UN target, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam said at a meeting of  National Committee for AIDS, Prostitution and Drug Prevention yesterday.

Lawyer Ngô Anh Tuấn has proposed implementing specific regulations on acts of child sexual abuse and lowering the age of criminal responsibility for such abusers from 18 to 16.

Đà Nẵng University has opened a Technical Teachers’ Training College to train 2,000 students at four technological and engineering faculties.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has ordered the central province of Bình Định's Police Department to quickly complete its investigation into 60ha of a local forest being illegally chopped down in An Lão District’s An Hưng Commune in August.

Private hospitals that have signed health-insurance contracts with Việt Nam Social Insurance (VSI) will continue the contracts next year. However, private healthcare facilities must now have their classifications authorised by the Ministry of Health.

Remaining social insurance debt until the end of November was more than VNĐ2,800 billion (US$120 million), accounting for 8.47 per cent of the debt collection plan, Dân trí newspaper reported.

The HCM City People’s Council wrapped up its sixth session yesterday after approving two resolutions related to the implementation of the National Assembly’s Resolution No 54 on piloting special mechanisms and policies for HCM City and the city’s socio-economic targets for 2018.

Hà Nội should finalise regulations on construction management to eliminate overlapping responsibilities between agencies, and also to clarify inspection duties to better deter construction violations, experts have said.

High tides have exceeded warning level three of six, submerging HCM City streets and causing terrible traffic congestion on Wednesday.

 A reservoir embankment in central Quảng Trị Province is at high risk of breaching, threatening the safety of 3,000 local residents who live below the reservoir.

GreenlinesDP, which operates hydrofoils between HCM City and Vũng Tàu, is set to add services to Cần Giờ from the two cities from December 23.

Experts recommended solutions to protect HCM City’s groundwater sources and public health at a dialogue yesterday .

A cold front approached the northern region late last evening, dropping the temperature and causing scattered rain across the region.

Lê Tấn Hổ, head of Phú Yên Province's Department of Planning and Investment, will ask the Prime Minister to decide on the fate of a long-delayed $3.2 billion oil refinery.

Chairman of the People’s Committee of Hà Nội Nguyễn Đức Chung has ordered districts to suspend all upcoming projects to resurface sidewalks throughout the city.

HCM City People’s Committee has issued new land division regulations which allow large plots of land to be divided into smaller plots, including land plots that have been part of delayed plans that have yet to be implemented.