Việt Nam News

Culture should be well positioned like other crucial sectors in national economic development, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said yesterday while addressing a conference reviewing 2016 developments and setting tasks for 2017 for the cultural, sports and tourism sector.

Urbanisation and a sharp increase in population have presented a number of challenges for Hà Nội, one of which is the collection and treatment of household waste in a way causes minimal impact to the environment.

Five workers of a private business specialising in aquatic product processing died due to suffocation under suspicious circumstances on Thursday in southern Phú Yên Province.

At least 2,300 swimming pools must be built to accommodate swimming lessons for public high school students, according to the city’s Department of Culture and Sports.

The Customs Department of HCM City on Wednesday said it would cut by half the amount of processing time to complete customs documents for import and export businesses.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has tasked the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to promptly find solutions for limitations on agricultural land ownership that curtail large-scale farming and production.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has instructed the Ministry of Finance to provide over 10,400 tonnes of rice from national reserve funds for 12 provinces before the upcoming Tết holiday.

The national fund of employment assistance from the Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union has helped youths from northern Bắc Ninh Province launch businesses. However, a lot of local youngsters still find it difficult to access the fund.

The capital will award prizes worth a total of US$300,000 to design consultancy firms that come up with the best solutions to ease traffic congestion, Hà Nội’s People’s Committee said on Wednesday.

Four workers were seriously wounded when scaffolding collapsed at the construction site of a 32-storey building in Sơn Trà district on Wednesday night.

 A bomb weighing 266kg was unearthed during site clearance at a construction site in central Quảng Trị Province on Wednesday.

Bến Tre Province has identified the area where the first case of Zika virus infection was recorded on January 6 and has taken steps to prevent an outbreak.

Two people died and another went missing after their boat flipped over in Krông Ana River in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk on Wednesday.

The city has recently called for private investment under the public-private partnership (PPP) model to kick off several key transport infrastructure projects under in the context of a limited State budget amid increasing transport demand.

The Ministry of Education and Training is setting up a programme to retrain surplus teachers in secondary and high schools, to deal with current shortages in kindergartens.

Tôn Đức Thắng University has been ranked 156th out of 516 universities worldwide for its green educational environment and sustainable educational facilities, according to the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking (GreenMetric) of Universitas Indonesia.

The Department of High-Tech Crime Prevention (known as C50) has said that after a months-long investigation it had arrested six men allegedly taking part in an online gambling ring.

Illegal sand mining still takes place along Bến Hải river in the central province of Quảng Trị in spite of efforts of local authorities, causing great public concern among residents for years.