Fire destroys store in Đắk Lắk

A fire broke out at 4am today at a commercial property in the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) province of Đắk Lắk’s Krông Pắk District, leading to property damage, but no fatalities were reported.

Gov’t tightens media rules

A digital copy of every news and feature story published on online newspapers must be stored independently and kept unchanged for at least one year for inspection purpose, the government has said.

Agriculture administrative procedures to go online in Q1

Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hà Công Tuấn on Wednesday asked relevant agencies to speed up the ministry’s online public services, making all agriculture administrative procedures available online by the end of next month.

HN to tighten festival food inspections

Hà Nội’s Department of Health would deploy mobile food testing labs to deter unsafe food sold at restaurants and street vendors where spring festivals take place.

HCM City pilots inexpensive housing for workers at industrial parks

The Department of Construction in HCM City has encouraged companies in Hiệp Phước and Linh Trung industrial parks in Nhà Bè and Thủ Đức districts to pilot construction of residential clusters with 25-sq m apartments priced at VNĐ100 million (US$4,405) for workers.

 

More Vietnamese studying in New Zealand

The number of approved visas for Vietnamese students to study in New Zealand in the past 12 months rose by 15 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to Education New Zealand (ENZ), New Zealand’s government agency for international education.

Health ministry tackles dengue, Zika in Nha Trang

The Ministry of Health will release 1 million to 1.4 million of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in four wards in Nha Trang in an effort to reduce the number of incidences of dengue fever and Zika virus infections.

Mekong provinces work on water

Water pumping stations in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provide more than 985,000cu.m daily to urban areas, meeting 89 per cent of the need, the Ministry of Construction said.

Gia Lai to crack down on loggers

The People’s Committee of Gia Lai Province on Tuesday asked local authorities to investigate and prosecute lumberjacks operating in the northeast Chư Păh forest region.

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