HCM City will focus on reducing pollution in rural districts and communes, local authorities said at a conference held in the city on Thursday to review the National Target Programme for New Rural Areas 2016.
The capital city’s People’s Committee has launched a campaign to support Earth Hour this year which will be held at 20:30 - 21:30pm on March 25.
The Division of Education and Training of Hà Nội’s Cầu Giấy District has banned all schools in the district from renting schoolyards for parking activities from this month onwards.
The Quảng Nam People’s Committee said it has collected eight tonnes of waste mixed with oil clumps along the beach in Núi Thành District, adding that these clumps were not the same as previous ones.
HCM City’s drug crime investigation sub-department (PC47) has uncovered a drug-trafficking ring operating in Hà Nội and HCM City, police said on Wednesday (March 1).
An earthquake, measuring 2.5 on the Richter scale, hit the districts of Nam Trà My and Bắc Trà My in the central province of Quảng Nam on Wednesday, but no structural damage was reported.
Trekking through Hướng Hóa protective forest in Đak Rông District of central Quảng Trị Province, it is not hard to see dozens of tree trunks, branches and twigs lying in disorder on the pathway while green shades of leaves are gradually losing day by day.
Two sea dykes in Bạc Liêu Province were damaged on Tuesday (February 28) and Wednesday (March 1), threatening thousands of people living in the area, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Police report they have busted gambling ring operated on a large scale under the form of illegal lottery in this central province.
A Japanese health festival will be held at the Hà Nội-based Aeon Mall Long Biên Trade Centre on March 4-5 to introduce the nation’s medical equipment and services.
A charity text message campaign was launched on Thursday by the Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) in collaboration with the “Tấm lòng Việt” Humanitarian Fund of the Việt Nam Television and the National Humanitarian Portal 1400.
Experts yesterday agreed in a conference in Hà Nội that there was a need for more public-private partnerships in education and training.
Coach operators are facing bankruptcy after Hà Nội’s Transport Department moved their departure point from Mỹ Đình Bus Station to Nước Ngầm Bus Station, 15 kilometres away, on January 01.
HCM City is one of several localities in the country that have successfully worked with central and municipal judicial agencies in the fight against corruption, a senior official has said.
Some 5,000 poor and underprivileged people will get health check services free for the early detection of cancer.
Việt Nam Expressway Corporation (VEC) has proposed a plan to the Transport Ministry to upgrade and expand the Liêm Tuyền intersection on the Cầu Giẽ-Ninh Bình Highway.
Australia and Việt Nam have started a reciprocal work and holiday visa programme from March 1.
The central city people’s committee will start an education on landmines and bomb awareness and accidents project with funding from the US’s Secretary through Catholic Relief Service organisation in 2017-20.
A spate of fires in the ancient town of Hội An is causing concern for citizens and local authorities. A project on fire fighting and prevention is looking for funding of VNĐ240 billion.
The sound of children reciting lessons aloud rings through the house of ‘teacher Nhật’ — as his 71 adopted children lovingly call him — located in the distant commune of Ia Hlốp, in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.
