Việt Nam News

Experts have welcomed a shift in credit policy for hi-tech agriculture to include farmers and enterprises instead of focusing on hi-tech agricultural parks.

The People’s Committee of Tân Uyên town in Bình Dương Province inaugurated the Vĩnh Lợi Revolutionary Base relic on Thursday (Dec 22).

HCM City has proposed building 10 new inland container depots to reduce the overload of traffic on roads as well as enhance connectivity among roads leading to seaports in the city.

HCM City authorities will allocate VNĐ67.9 billion (US$3 million) for a five-year (2016-2020) project that will provide vocational training and job counseling to ethnic minority workers.

A 71-year-old man chose to live in an oasis that is far from his neighbors and unconnected to the power grid and water supply. He has lived this life for almost 30 years and remains content with it, as he guards a mangrove forest area.

President Trần Đại Quang extended Christmas greetings to Catholic dignitaries and followers during his visit to the Catholic Church under the Archdiocese (Metropolitan) of HCM City yesterday.

The People’s Supreme Procuracy (PSP) today decided to suspend the case of the former editor-in-chief of the Người cao tuổi (The Elderly) newspaper.

A co-operative programme on population and reproductive health was signed on Thursday between the General Office on Population and Family Planning under the Ministry of Health, and DKT International.

Seven months after chairman of the Hà Nội People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung met residents living near the Nam Sơn rubbish dump in Sóc Sơn District, compensation due to environmental pollution has been successfully distributed.

A majority of company leaders and mid-level personnel in Việt Nam are not keen on their jobs.

Police on Thursday arrested two people from the northern mountainous province of Son La for illegally transporting 50 cakes of heroin.

Some 350 young people from Quỳ Châu and Quế Phong in the central province of Nghệ An benefited from a project on employment for ethnic minority youths in the province.

HCM City authorities have given all businesses operating out of residential apartments 15 days to move out.

The domestic railway sector is urged to fix its current infrastructure weaknesses to raise the capacity of carrying passengers to at least 13 per cent and loading goods to at least 14 per cent by 2020 following Government targets.

The central city and Quảng Nam Province yesterday inked an agreement on integrated management of the Vu Gia-Thu Bồn river basin and Quảng Nam-Đà Nẵng coastline after years of discussions and negotiations.

HCM City plans to give VNĐ661 billion (US$29 million) worth of gifts to its residents during Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday, 10 per cent more than last year, the Department of Labour, War invalids and Social Affairs said on Wednesday.

Professionals and experts need to help HCM City resolve its problems like traffic congestion, flooding, unsafe food and poor healthcare services, city leaders said at a meeting with them on Tuesday.

It was during a trekking trip to the central Quảng Bình Province in 2014 that I first spotted wooden houses with tanks under them. This November I realised that these very houses had saved thousands of lives when the region flooded.