The scale of tobacco smuggling has fallen but the situation remains complicated, especially in ‘smuggling hubs’ like the Southern cities and provinces of HCM City, Long An, Tây Ninh, An Giang, and the Northern provinces of Hải Phòng, Quảng Ninh, Thái Bình, a conference on combating smuggling has heard.
The Bình Tiên Bridge and Road project will be built by four contractors with total investment of VNĐ3.508 trillion (US$157 million) to relieve traffic congestion, the city’s Transport Department has said.
Hastening the disbursement of official development assistance (ODA) and preferential loans remains a huge task for the remaining two months of this year in the context of increasing public debts and limited resources, said Deputy Prime Minister Phạm Bình Minh.
Experts have recommended that the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta should expand “smart” rice cultivation to reduce production costs and increase profits.
The increasing number of suicides in Điện Biên over the last few years was raising alarms among the community in the remote mountainous province.
School violence has recently increased not only in quantity, but also in severity, said educational experts.
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân yesterday visited and presented gifts to flood victims in Hương Khê and Vũ Quang districts – the most vulnerable to flooding in the central province of Hà Tĩnh.
Minister of Information and Communications Trương Minh Tuấn today decided to temporarily suspend the editor-in-chief and the deputy editor-in-chief of online newspaper infonet.vn.
Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has made a proposal to the prime minister on next year’s public holidays scheme.It has suggested two options for Tết ( Lunar New Year) holidays -- seven days off or 10 days off.
The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam has proposed to spend VNĐ35 billion (US$1.6 million) to upgrade the Quảng Bình stretch of the
Storm Sarika weakened into a low tropical pressure this morning over the sea some 60km away from the Quảng Ninh coast.
A construction crane collapsed on the roof of a house on the capital’s
Workers started moving mahogany trees on Hà Nội’s Kim Mã Street last night to make way for a metro line of the Nhổn-Hà Nội Railway Station.
The helicopter that went missing yesterday in the southern
Heavy rainfall and floods over the last few days have damaged several national and provincial routes in the
Four cases of Japanese encephalitis have recently been reported in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Kon Tum, local health officials said yesterday.
Patients with chronic kidney failure are putting their lives at risks using herbal medicines of unclear origin, a nephrologist said.
Doctors at HCM City’s Medical University have successfully performed surgery to remove a giant kidney stone from a 59-year-old woman.
More than 400 talented students from HCM City and neighbouring provinces have taken part in the YouthSpeak forum which encourages them to take action and initiate positive societal change.
The expansion of artificial forests and roads around Ea Sô Natural Reserve in the Central Highland province of Đắk Lắk has been blamed for the increased encroachment by timber loggers.
