Innovators receive Lương Định Của Award

Tạ Đình Huy, 35, of Thượng Vực Commune, Hà Nội’s Chương Mỹ District, one of 86 outstanding young people given 2107 Lương Định Của Award, for making agricultural machines to reduce burdens for farmers in farming activities and offered jobs for 50 local youngsters.

New policies take effect this month

A series of new government policies on land use right certificates, proving financial capacity to play at casinos, and for the horse racing and international football betting business, come into effect this month.

Police check on alleged child torture

Police in southern Kiên Giang Province’s Châu Thành District are investigating alleged physical abuse of a seven-year-old girl by her father and stepmother, Colonel Phạm Trung Thành of the Province’s Police Department said.

Court upholds verdict on anti-State instigator Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh

The Đà Nẵng-based Council of Judges of the Việt Nam Supreme People’s Court on Thursday upheld a 10-year prison sentence for Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, known by her blogging and Facebook name “Mẹ Nấm” (“Mother Mushroom”), who was convicted of propagandising against the State of the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam under Article 88 of the Penal Code.

$44m allocated to flood-hit provinces

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has decided to provide VNĐ1 trillion (US$44 million) for localities affected by typhoon Damrey that hit south central provinces early last month. 

Window cleaners work with danger

On a typical morning in HCM City, Nguyễn Hải Tùng, 27, appears on the twenty fifth floor of a building in District 7. He is preparing for a good day’s work, but not as a white collar worker.

Detailed tourism reform needed

Tourism authorities should work out a “very detailed” plan on restructuring the tourism industry to completely resolve prominent problems of the sector, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam said on Thursday.

Tân Sơn Nhất hikes parking fees

Parking fees at HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport will increase beginning today, December 1, the city’s People’s Committee has announced.

Floods cause mass fish deaths in Huế

Local fishery authorities in central Thừa Thiên- Huế Province believe that fresh water from the recent floods was the main cause of en mass fish deaths.

Crew member found alive 20 hours after ship sinks

A crew member of a squid-catching ship that sank was rescued after more than 20 hours, according to the Bình Định Province Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control on Wednesday night.

 

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