Việt Nam News

Thousands of slaughter houses in central province of Thanh Hóa are operating without licences and failing to meet hygiene, food safety requirements.

In a remote commune populated by the Xê Đăng ethnic group in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, many villages have become prosperous by creating large fields for modern farming.

Some expensive construction works built within the new rural development programme in Hà Nội have either never been used or are rarely used.

Software and legal documents on cybercrime prevention will soon be launched in Việt Nam.

This year, for the first time also, Ministry of Education and Training allowed candidates to apply to as many as universities as they want.

The chairman of HCM City People’s Committee Nguyễn Thành Phong instructed the municipal Transport Department and relevant authorities to study and prepare for banning all light truck working in daylight at traffic congestions.

The central province of Hà Tĩnh has asked the Government not to resume activities of the Thạch Khê iron mine, the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia.

The number of taxis in Việt Nam’s big cities is expected to rise well beyond planned targets or consumer demands, which will exert even more pressure on road infrastructure as well as causing waste, congestion, and environmental pollution.

Market Watch forces nationwide detected more than 4,000 violations relating to smuggled, low quality or counterfeit goods, after examining around 4,350 cases in the first two weeks of April.

Rampant deforestation in the Central Highlands left to fester for many years by forestry authorities’ negligence has cost the region hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest, according to the Central Highlands Steering Committee. As a result, the Government recently decided to dissolve six companies it had assigned to protect the forests.

Children aged nine to 16 were invited to talk about issues affecting their life, including sexual and physical abuse, at a forum organised last week by the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs in HCM City. 

All people who suffer from life-threatening diseases will be eligible for palliative care, with the care beginning as soon as their diseases are detected, due to a change in a national guidance on palliative care.

This year’s natural disasters in Việt Nam have caused much severer consequences than the first seven months of 2016.

Vũ Thị Lan had worked for 10 years at an electronic assembly factory in the Quang Minh Industrial Zone (IZ) when she received her pink slip in mid-April.

Early season flooding and heavy rainfall have severely damaged thousands of hectares of rice field in the Mekong Delta province of Long An. Water level in the province was 2.37m last Friday, some 1.53m higher than previous year’s figure with water level raising approximately 5-10cm every day.

A new centre that will offer rehabilitation and post-surgery care to Agent Orange victims will open by the end of the year in HCM City, according to the HCM City Association of Victims of Agent Orange.  

The Lao Minister of Labour and Social Welfare and Vietnamese Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affair agreed to boost the 2013 Việt Nam-Laos Labour Cooperation Pact and to search for the remains of Vietnamese martyrs and experts who died in Laos.

A handicapped man in a poor rural village of the south central province Bình Định has been giving extra classes for disadvantaged children in his hometown for the last 30 years, totally free of charge.