Việt Nam News

HCM City authorities have decided to develop the Public Transport Management and Operation Centre into an agency that would use integrated solutions in public transport management instead of establishing a new agency.

The central city plans to increase the use of environmentally friendly liquid fertiliser that produced from organic waste at farms and public garden in coming years.

A couple and their two children - aged nine and three - were killed yesterday when their house in Thủ Dầu Một City in the southern province of Bình Dương caught fire early morning yesterday.

By 2020 HCM City’s public hospitals will no longer be overloaded and people will have access to high-quality healthcare, city officials promise.

Representatives from the Vietnamese embassy in Malaysia today met the suspect in the murder case of a North Korean citizen at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on February 13, who was ealier confỉrmed to be a Vietnamese citizen.

HCM City’s Department of Education and Training is seeking help from overseas Vietnamese educators who can set up training models that meet international standards and provide capital to build schools and buy teaching aids.

Việt Nam, as the host of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC)  Year 2017, has initiated a round-table conference on  sustainable tourism development policy amid climate change in June this year, said Deputy General Director of the Việt Nam National Administration of Tourism Hà Văn Siêu.

A visit by the UK Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox to Việt Nam will open new business opportunities as well as raise bilateral trade revenue between the UK and Việt Nam, including HCM City, said Nguyễn Thành Phong, chairman of the city People’s Committee.

An initiative by the Mekong Youth Farm Network (Y-Farm) that focuses on youth engagement in organic farming and educating the younger generation in sustainable agriculture has won a grant from the US Department of State.

Việt Nam’s new developmental model will not sacrifice environmental standards and social equality for growth goals, Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ said at the 2017 Spring Forum held by the Asia Business Council on Thursday in HCM City.

As many as 13 contraventions of the Dyke Law have been reported in Hà Nội so far this year, according to the municipal Department on Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Hà Nội People’s Committee has approved a pilot programme that would utilise software and automation technology to manage public parking zones in the city.

Low-quality and fake cosmetics have continued to flood the Vietnamese market, making it hard for consumers to determine the quality of products despite agencies’ efforts to tackle the issue.

The national immunisation programme will give supplemental vaccinations against Japanese encephalitis to children between six and 15 years old, who did not receive the vaccine, or were not sure about their vaccination schedule previously, in districts facing high risks of the disease.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday asked all stakeholders to find solutions to problems that have bedevilled the Đà Nẵng University Village project for the last 20 years.

Sài Gòn Railways Transport JSC on Wednesday introduced a luxury train on the HCM City-Nha Trang route.

Tây Hồ District authorities finally began dismantling floating houses on West Lake on Thursday, following instructions from the city people’s committee.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Trà Vinh on Thursday destroyed  58,000 packages of smuggled cigarettes and 297 goods that had unknown origin or were counterfeit.