Comprehensive policies, particularly those for disadvantaged areas and those vulnerable to impacts of climate change, are the core of the Government’s programme to build new-style rural areas during the period of 2016 to 2020.
The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN) has asked the Ministry of Transport for permission to test cashless toll collection on one-stop toll highways.
IFProfs Việt Nam, a professional social network for French-language teachers and professionals, has been launched by the French consulate in HCM City and the French Institute in Việt Nam.
The ‘May 19’ Transport Co-operative on Sunday launched 50 new buses to run on its Eastern Coach Station - Hóc Môn route in HCM City.
HCM City plans to allocate more than VNĐ1 trillion (US$45 million) to curb air pollution at the Đa Phước Waste Treatment Complex and Đa Phước Cemetery in outlying Binh Chánh district.
The HCM City Preventive Health Centre has been instructed to co-operate with five hospitals to set up procedures for testing, diagnoses, admission and treatment for patients, especially pregnant women infected with the Zika virus, as the number of Zika cases has increased.
The HCM City Department of Transport will designate nine pick-up and drop-off points early next year for buses plying eastward in an effort to root out illegal bus stations and unlicensed transport firms.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday sent condolences to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi over the loss of lives in the derailment of a train in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh state.
The central province of Hà Tĩnh has called for 30,000 vials of vaccine to prevent the spread of blue ear disease among pigs, which broke out a month ago.
Việt Nam always respects and would like to strengthen and expand ties with Singapore, the HCM City People’s Committee chairman Nguyễn Thành Phong told visiting Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Long.
A total of 85 outstanding young people from throughout the country will receive the Lương Định Của Award at a special ceremony in Hà Nội this Saturday.
Challenges facing the modern media and how to cope with them were the focus of discussion at the November 18 discussion at the 16th General Assembly of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Eighteen fishermen from Quỳnh Lưu District in the central province of Nghệ An were rescued on Sunday, 24 hours after their trawler’s engine failed and it went adrift at sea, said the province’s Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention, Search and Rescue.
Fifty newspapers were slapped with a total penalty of around VNĐ1 billion (US$44,400) on Monday for “wrongful reports” on the effects of consuming fish sauce made in the country.
At least 400 cases of dengue fever have been recorded in the central Quảng Trị Province, reveals a report released late last week.
A fire broke out in a four-storeyed building in Hà Nội’s Hai Bà Trưng District on Monday morning, destroying most of the structure as well as the building next door.
The Hà Nội People’s Court today sentenced a 40-year-old woman to 27 months of imprisonment for producing fake seals and documents of an organisation.
Doctors from the Đồng Nai International Hospital have successfully removed a 1.2kg tumour from a woman’s gallbladder.
The Police Department for Smuggling Prevention, Tân Sơn Nhất aviation forces and HCM City’s Tân Bình District police on Friday seized a four-kilogramme-rhino horn.
Japanese businesses are keen to share experience, transfer technology and invest in the construction of metro line 3A and a trade centre at the central station of metro line No 1 in HCM City.
