HCM City metro line to be extended

HCM City’s metro route No 1 linking Bến Thành Market with Suối Tiên Tourist Park in District 9 will be extended to the neighbouring provinces of Bình Dương and Đồng Nai, according to the Bình Dương People’s Committee.

 

HCM City hosts France-Việt Nam Job Fair

The annual France-Việt Nam Job Fair 2017, which has attracted 33 Vietnamese and French companies, will be held on May 6 at the Novotel Saigon Centre in HCM City.

 

Man prosecuted for child sexual abuse

 Police in northern Hà Nam Province’s Kim Bảng District will investigate a man on the charge of sexually abusing children, head of the district police Lê Văn Tuấn has said.

Four officials suspended over deforestation

Đắk Nông Province’s forest protection division has suspended four managers and rangers in Đắk G’long District over the recent heavy deforestation in Quảng Sơn Commune.

HN to name and shame cowboy builders

The People’s Committee of Hà Nội has recently ordered relevant agencies to broadcast all projects of constructing residential buildings violated land-related regulations in the city via mass media.

VN to say bye to WB preferential loans

World Bank (WB) preferential loans during the 2017 fiscal year will be used for sustainable development, infrastructure, improvement of tertiary education, and disaster recovery in the central region, said Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh.

The sheriffs of Gron village forest

The Jarai people in Gron village of the Central Highland Province of Kon Tum believe that the nerby forest is sacred, its trees immortal. They have adopted strict rules to protect the forest, for example punishing those who cut even a small branch for firewood by making them plant 100 new trees.

Only 14 of 1,516 old buildings in HN renovated

After ten years to carry out the plan of renovating old apartment buildings in Hà Nội, the city now finishes renovating 14 among total 1,516 buildings (equally 1 per cent), a recent seminar has reported, although a number of ideas and specific mechanisms have been proposed and piloted.

City breaks ground on bus terminal

The Sài Gòn Transportation Mechanical Corporation (SAMCO) has broken ground for construction of the new Eastern Bus Terminal (Bến Xe Miền Đông) in HCM City’s District 9.

 

Mekong Delta farmers begin shrimp harvest

Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have begun this year’s first harvest season of brackish water shrimp, earning strong profits due to high prices and favourable breeding conditions.

11,000ha of Cà Mau forest at fire risk

Prolonged dry weather has significantly increased the risk of forest fires in the southernmost province of Cà Mau, the provincial Forest Protection Department reported.

New road crack prompts evacuation in An Giang

A new road crack by the Ông Chưởng River was found in An Giang Province on Wednesday, prompting the local authorities to urgently evacuate four households in fear of mass landslide.

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