Việt Nam News

The third phase of a project on upgrading Việt Nam’s capability to measure rain and detect storms and lightning has been launched at the Pha Đin Radar Station of Điện Biên.

An ethnic-minority woman treats bellyache for another by traditional method in northern mountainous Lào Cai Province’s Bát Xát District. —VNS Photo Việt Thanh

Households in the capital’s Old Quarters can enjoy preferential tax rates if they offer motorbike parking services in their premises, Hà Nội Mayor Nguyễn Đức Chung has said.

At the beginning of last year a woman named H. in HCM City transferred a total of VNĐ10 billion (US$437,800) in several times to a man she met on social media upon his request. She later realised it was a scam.

Transforming the workplace for women requires the elimination of structural barriers, discriminatory laws and social norms to create equal economic opportunities, said United Nations Resident Co-ordinator Kamal Malhotra. He spoke Friday at a dialogue organised by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and UNDP about women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work.

Customs officers of the northern mountainous province of Cao Bằng yesterday seized nearly 1,000 breeding chickens and ducks that were being illegally smuggled into the country from China.

From early March, HCM City local authorities will consider granting land-use certificates for those who bought land and houses through informal agreements as well as fix long-term existing environmental pollution problems.

The HCM City People’s Committee on Friday established a headmasters’ council, an association of the headmasters of 46 universities in the city.

All districts and communes in the capital city of Hà Nội will start campaigns this week to control the pervasive encroachment of cafes, beer joints and cars on sidewalks.

Ministries and localities have been told not to buy cars this year unless otherwise dictated by a comprehensive review of the  number of State-owned cars.

 Proposed legislation to eliminate some favourable conditions for female workers has met with resistance by both workers and employer. 

It is fairly common that women are forbidden from going near shrimp farms in several southern provinces because they are believed to bring bad luck.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade on Sunday morning launched the Earth Hour 2017 campaign in Hà Nội, delivering the message, “Lights off to turn on the future”.

The southernmost province of Cà Mau has returned two Lexus cars presented by a local private company, the chief of the provincial People’s Committee office, Nguyễn Đức Thánh, said yesterday.

Former Ocean Bank chairman Hà Văn Thắm admitted his violations on Thursday, saying his actions were aimed at saving his job and preventing the bank from going bankrupt.

Hà Nội’s veterinary department has not found any trace of the banned substance salbutamol in samples collected from animal breeding farms and slaughterhouses during an inspection in February.

Fluctuations in the price of farm produce, due to a lack of long-term production planning and sustainable markets, are causing problems for many farmers in Đồng Nai.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has ordered the Department of Overseas Labour to withdraw the licence of Civil Engineering Construction Joint Stock Corporation 8 (CIENCO 8) that allows the export of labour to foreign countries.