Việt Nam News

The HCM City Department of Education and Training plans to offer overtime services at kindergarten schools in industrial parks and export processing zones.

All households in HCM City’s Hóc Môn District now have access to clean water, according to the district’s People’s Committee.

More than 280,000 people have received free HIV tests and 15,000 patients were newly enrolled for anti-retroviral treatment over the last five years.

A priority on improving skills of the workforce is important as Việt Nam deals with the changing nature of work in the era of technology when many low-skilled workers will be at risk of automation.

Flower villages in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta fear ther supply of flowers and ornamental plants for Tết (Lunar New Year) next month will decline because of unfavorable weather.

One of new norms when approving scheduled enrollment figures next year is that universities and colleges must make statistics on students’ work after graduating, but many schools said that the work was impossible.

The Đồng Nai drug police agency busted a drug gang on Tuesday, arresting four suspects and seizing heroin, meth and ecstasy from them.

The Dutch, Danish and Swedish embassies today introduced the first ever DiploHack in Việt Nam, themed “Trust in the Food Chain”, one of the major issues in Việt Nam.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and The International Center, a non-governmental organisation, held a conference in Hà Nội today to enhance international co-operation in aiding bomb and mine victims. 

The country’s leading researchers gathered yesterday in Thừa Thiên Huế Province to present old documents issued by the Europeans, which were proof of Việt Nam’s sovereignty over the Paracel (Hoàng Sa) archipelago.

The Government is developing guidelines enabling People’s Committees of districts and provinces to sue polluters, Phạm Văn Lợi, head of the Environmental Study Institute under the Việt Nam Environment Administration, said at a conference on sustainable development yesterday.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nguyễn Xuân Cường, has urged relevant agencies to step up food safety inspections as consumption increases ahead of the Tết (Lunar New Year) Festival.

The central city of Da Nang has fined a slaughter centre owned by the Procimex Joint Stock Company VNĐ154 million (US$6.8 million) for discharging toxic fumes into the environment.

The central province of Quảng Ngãi has approved planning for a high quality salt zone on an area of 114ha in Sa Huỳnh town in Đức Phổ district.

Students from Tuyên Quang and Lào Cai provinces swept the first prizes in the Green Creativeness Contest held to unearth outstanding environmental protection ideas and models.

Dr Ngô Thị Ánh Đông is so devoted to her job and patients, and was one of  113 people honoured by the HCM City People’s Committee and Việt Nam Fatherland Front for their contributions to a civilised society and to the promotion of a good quality of life.

The Prime Minister has approved a plan to develop a new local-level medical network by 2025 to improve the capability and service quality of health care for Vietnamese.

Only half of the total commune-level health stations across the country can meet national medical standards, health minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến said on Tuesday.