Việt Nam News

Participants to a forum discussing how to promote the role of intellectuals in Việt Nam on Tuesday expressed their concern over the practicality of certain Party and State policies.

Article 292 of the Penal Code, which stipulates penalties, including prison sentences for providing unlicensed online or telecom services, is inimical to IT start-ups, the HCM City Computer Association has said.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam on Monday sent an urgent document asking concerned organisations to inspect the use of the health insurance fund.

Twenty three police officers from Asia, Australia, the Middle East and the Netherlands are attending the 41st Asia Region Law Enforcement Management Program, a training course that opened in HCM City on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Finance will reduce tolls for trucks and containers on National Highway 1 by between 10 and 14 per cent from next month.

The HCM City Department of Health has turned to technology to keep tabs on private health facilities after many were found flouting regulations, including frequently changing doctors without its say-so.

Ethnic minority children learn the alphabet in a class in the northern mountainous Lào Cai Province’s Tả Phìn Commune. — VNS Photo Việt Thanh

Long An Province has busted 1,250 cases of smuggling and over 1,000 cases of commercial fraud so far this year, and collected fines of VNĐ57 billion (US$2.55 million).

All people who joined the war of resistance and their children that are affected by agent orange in Hà Nội will be taken care of and receive treatment.

Two cases of Japanese encephalitis B were reported in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk, Phạm Văn Lào, director of the provincial Department of Preventive Medicines, said.

There has been great focus on seeking sponsorship or investment from organisations, companies, and individuals in education in HCM City in recent years, said Lê Hồng Sơn, head of the city Department of Education and Training.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has requested that tuition fees at all education levels should be made public.

The Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union, in coordination with the Ministry of Science and Technology, launched the Golden Globe Award 2016 in the fields of science and technology in Hà Nội yesterday.

The Government has announced how compensation will be paid to people affected by the toxic discharge by a steel plant owned by Taiwanese firm Hưng Nghiệp Formosa Hà Tĩnh Steel Corporation that caused Việt Nam’s biggest ever environmental disaster along the central coast.

Waterway transport has been affected in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta since many rivers and canals have not been regularly dredged and suffer from illegal encroachment.

Dr Đào Thị Nga, co-founder and director of the Center for Water Resources Conservation and Development (WARECOD), a Vietnamese non-governmental organisation, was among 15 Biodiversity “Hotspot Heroes” to be honoured on September 4 at the IUCN World Conservation Congress.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình yesterday asked the Hà Nội People’s Committee to verify information according to which nearly 5,000 people risked having their homes destroyed.

Thanks to an efficient new IT system for managing check-ups covered by health insurance, people in the northern province of Thái Nguyên do not need to queue up at hospitals from 3am like in the past.