Up to 76 per cent of pork meat sold in traditional markets in Việt Nam are slaughtered in substandard abattoirs. The rate of pork meat infected with Salmonella, a group of bacteria that can cause food poisoning, is estimated at 30-40 per cent.
The Government has told the Ministry of Transport (MoT) to put the Cát Linh-Hà Đông urban railway into operation by the first quarter of 2018. The project’s contractor has also pledged not to lag behind schedule any longer.
There is an outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in Hà Tĩnh City, in the central Hà Tĩnh Province, the agriculture and rural development ministry’s animal health department announced on Sunday.
A tapioca starch production plant in central Thanh Hóa Province has been fined VNĐ310 million (US$13,710) for polluting the environment.
Anyone found to be hanging advertising boards on trees, electric poles or traffic lights will be fined up to VNĐ10 million (US$439), five times higher than the previous regulation.
Japanese police have confirmed the death of a Vietnamese girl in Akibo, Chiba Prefecture, who was reported missing last Friday, according to Japanese media.
The central province should build as an international recreational and tourism centre in attracting visitors and investors in the future with two world heritages – Hoi An city and Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary, and a world biosphere Chàm Island, and a 125km pristine untouch coast.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has signed a resolution providing a credit package worth VNĐ100 trillion (US$4.4 billion) to invest in the development of high-tech agriculture at lower than market rates.
Tonnes of poultry are illegally traded and slaughtered daily in Hà Nội’s markets raising public concern over the spread of avian influenza in the capital.
Temperatures in HCM City shot up to 33 degrees Celsius last week, triggering respiratory and digestive disease and hand, foot, and mouth disease among children, according to the city’s Paediatrics Hospital 1.
HCM City plans to open private lanes for buses on two major streets to speed up operating time and attract bus riders, among other plans to ease traffic congestion, according to the city’s Department of Transport.
Việt Nam has saved 471,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, equivalent to VNĐ764 million (US$33,616) when people nationwide responded to the event switching off unnecessary electrical devices, the Electricity of Vietnam Group’s National Load Dispatch Centre said.
Two foreigners, including Ravi Barkash, 27, an Indian national, and Moon Atfri, 31, from America, were recently arrested and charged with stealing a motorbike, said the HCM City’s police on Saturday.
Three students drowned while swimming in the waters off Xuân Thiều Beach in Đà Nẵng City’s Liên Chiểu District yesterday, said Đàm Quang Hưng, chairman of the district’s People’s Committee.
It was at around 7am that Phạm Xuân Thủy was riding a bicycle around Khương Mai ward in Hà Nội’s Thanh Xuân District. The 64-year-old man was not on a bike tour but on duty to protect social order and security in the area.
The Transport Engineering Design Incorporated (TEDI) has proposed a transport connection project between HCM City and seven other provinces and cities.
Vũ Thị Hằng, principal of Xuân Giao Kindergarten in Lào Cai Province’s Bảo Thắng District, has been suspended after being charged with the mistreatment of a four-year-old.
The Hà Nội People’s Committee has decided to give VNĐ120 billion (US$5.3 million) to pay in advance of salary for 3,700 workers at irrigational enterprises in Hà Nội, who did not receive their full salary over the past five months.
Picking out a lettuce leaf from the greenhouse garden, Israeli President Reuven Ruvi Rivlin had a taste of what Israeli technology has brought to Việt Nam.
The Hà Nội People’s Court has upheld the death sentence handed down to the ringleader and eight other members of a drug ring at an appeal trial in the northern province of Bắc Ninh from March 22-24.
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