Việt Nam News

The Southern region plans to reduce the cultivation area of the winter-spring rice crop 2016-17 as drought and saline intrusion are expected to affect the area.

More efforts will be made to prevent smuggling of tobacco into the country, a seminar on safety and efficiency in the fight against contraband heard in HCM City yesterday (Friday 7 Sept).

More than 10 years of working closely with primary school children in the remote communes of the island Vân Đồn District, northern coastal Quảng Ninh Province, have forged many unforgettable memories for teachers Nguyễn Thị Hợi and Lưu Thế Sơn.

Acting responsibly for sustainable tourism development is an important target and solution for the tourism sector in economics, society and environment, Nguyễn Văn Tuấn, head of Việt Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) under Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism told a conference in Hà Nội yesterday.

The study of the extension of Old Quarter’s pedestrian zone should be supported, however, the extension is inappropriate at this time, the municipal People’s Committee said.

The installation of devices to monitor 600 major radioactive sources in the country will be completed by October 30, officials said yesterday.

People who were affected by mineral exploitation activities of Trại Câu iron mine have received assistance, according to the northern Thái Nguyên Province’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

Residents at Dưỡng Diễm Commune in southern Tiền Giang Province’s Châu Thành District claimed that their lives had been affected by bad smells and sewage from a slaughterhouse in the region over the past 30 years.

The Đa Phước Waste Treatment Complex has asked municipal authorities to suspend receipt of an additional 2,000 tonnes of garbage per day in response to residents’ complaints about a foul odour coming from the plant.

Coastal provinces and cities from Quảng Ninh in the north to Khánh Hòa in the central region have been told to prepare for Typhoon Aere, which has moved into northern East Sea, becoming the sixth storm to hit the East Sea this year.

The HCM City Preventive Health Centre will continue to monitor and test tap and ground water quality throughout the city.

Both multinationals and local companies have given lower salary increases this year compared to 2015, a survey by Mercer, a leading global provider of human resource services, and Talentnet Corp, its associate in Việt Nam, has found.

Construction on the Vietnamese-German University campus yesterday began in a new urban area in Bình Dương Province.

The Korean language test for labourers of the manufacturing sector, who are willing to work in South Korea under the Employment Permit System (EPS) programme, will be held this Saturday and Sunday.

A 21-year-old man who went on a rampage at Bửu Quang pagoda in Thủ Đức District on Wednesday, killing one monk and injuring three others, is suspected to be mentally disturbed.

Marine ecosystems play a very important role in mitigating the impact of natural disasters but unsustainable socio-economic development has contributed to their further deterioration, experts have warned.

The Hà Nội police have launched an investigation into two Chinese nationals for allegedly illegally appropriating assets in Việt Nam.

The Hà Nội People’s Court yesterday sentenced three people to death and one to life imprisonment for drug trafficking between the northern and southern regions of the country.