Việt Nam News

 Some 15 per cent of students from primary and high schools in HCM City suffer from hypertension due to obesity, being overweight and physically inactive.

The People’s Court of Thủ Dầu Một City on Wednesday sentenced Ngô Tiến Thảo, 30, to five years imprisonment for violating regulations on safely operating electricity works.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) just required a halt of all sand mining operations in the Dầu Tiếng lake, the largest reservoir in the country.

Due to insufficient management, hundreds of hectares of forest in Gia Lai Province have been illegally converted to domestic housing and agricultural land, Vietnam News Agency reported.

Many pavements in Hà Nội were cleared of encroachments in the two months after a campaign was launched to remove illegally parked cars, vendors, cafes, canopies and other obstructions, but the problem has recently resurfaced.

The south's key economic provinces, such as Đồng Nai, Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu and Bình Dương, have recently shifted focus from agricultural to the non-agricultural sectors, resulting in a serious shortage of agricultural worker during harvest.

HCM City People’s Committee has petitioned the city People’s Council to increase salary and allowances to raise incomes for kindergarten teachers in order to keep them working as the city has seen a year-by-year increase of kindergarten teachers quitting their jobs.

Experts have urged hospitals to update their treatment guidelines in obstetrics and paediatrics to help reduce the number of maternal deaths and medical errors.   

The China Eximbank has disbursed US$18.25 million for the Cát Linh–Hà Đông Railway Project, said Vũ Hồng Phương, Deputy Director General of the Railway Project Management Unit under the Ministry of Transport, on Tuesday. 

HCM City authorities have been asked to develop a master plan for urban underground spaces to prepare for the opening of subway lines in the city.

The Việt Nam Urban and Industrial Zone Development Investment Corporation yesterday (May 17) opened to traffic the Gò Mây flyover at the intersection of National Highway No.1A and Lê Trọng Tấn, Nguyễn Thị Tú streets in HCM City’s Bình Tân District.

 Kwong Lung-Meko Co. Ltd. on Tuesday said it has suffered damages of VNĐ368 billion (US$16.2 million) in the five-day fire in Cần Thơ City’s Trà Nóc Industrial Zone in March.

Traffic accidents cost Việt Nam 2.5 per cent of its annual GDP as per World Health Organization estimates, said Khuất Việt Hùng, vice-chairman of the National Committee for Safe Traffic.

HCM City police have released their investigation report on a suspected case of sexual harassment of a girl student at a primary school in Thủ Đức District.

Some 1,900 computers in Việt Nam have been attacked by WannaCry virus, so far – one of the largest-ever cyber-attacks affecting computers across the globe.

HCM City plans to introduce 800 new buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) by the end of this year.

Although Việt Nam’s shrimp production has potentials to become the country’s spearhead economy with predicted export turnover reaching US$10 billion by 2025, the sector is facing challenges of small-scale production and limitation in shrimp breeding stocks, said Trần Đình Luân, deputy head of Directorate of Fisheries under Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Việt Nam plans to more than triple the number of enterprises owned and run by ethnic minority groups by next year in a bid to tap into the full potential of these groups and reduce poverty.