Việt Nam News

HCM City authorities have asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment and Ministry of Finance to allocate an additional VNĐ48.762 trillion (US$2.14 billion) of official development assistance (ODA) in the next three years, with VNĐ8 trillion ($352.33 million) allocated for this year.

HCM City authorities are struggling to reach the target of having wastewater treatment systems at all export processing zones, industrial parks and industrial complexes by 2020.

Big data research is the key element to help Việt Nam boost the Internet of Things (IoT) and apply smart urban technology, the rector of the Korea-Việt Nam Friendship Information Technology College, Hoàng Bảo Hùng, said at the opening of the 7th International Conference on Information Science and Technology (ICTST) in Đà Nẵng yesterday.

Of the 407 petrol stations to be opened in HCM City from now until 2030, 62 of them will be on boats on local waterways.

An appeal court in HCM City on Monday upheld the death sentence of a Vietnamese-born Australian national for trafficking heroin.

Rhino horns weighing nearly 5kg were seized at the Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport on Sunday, HCM City’s Customs reported.

A mobile explosive ordnance disposal team of Peace Trees Việt Nam in central Quảng Trị Province on Sunday cleared 22 cluster bombs left from the war in Hương Hóa District. The shrapnel bombs, which belonged to the US army, were found in the garden of a resident in Tân Thành Commune.

A protest against toll collection by local residents at Cầu Rác toll station in Cẩm Xuyên District disrupted traffic for two hours on Sunday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has given the investment green light to building two large-scale reservoirs with capacities of nearly a million cu.m each..

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình has asked authorities of the central Quảng Nam Province to investigate reports of illegal gold exploitation in the Bồng Miêu mine area.

A project to develop the Buôn Ma Thuột coffee brand is expected to benefit more than 15,000 farmers who live in a poor commune in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk.

When municipal authorities issued a Decision No.18 in 2011 on granting preferential loans to landlords for building and upgrading houses to rent to workers, it was widely welcomed.

When asked how many bridges had been built as a result of his fund-raising efforts, farmer Mai Văn Võ, a former war veteran, had no idea.

Việt Nam aims to increase the nationwide forest coverage to 42 per cent by the year 2020, and 45 per cent by 2030.

HCM City’s People’s Committee has set up an interdisciplinary inspection team to check food safety across the city during an action month for food safety that kicked off last Saturday.

Fire flared up again at the Taiwanese Kwong Lun-Mekong garment factory in Cần Thơ City yesterday morning, fifteen days after an earlier fire. No casualties were reported.  

A traffic police officer was killed on Saturday while on duty on Nation Route 1A in Biên Hòa City’s An Bình Ward.

Some 230 labourers have been hired for work and 340 for vocational training during a job fair for people with disabilities (PWD) held in Hà Nội yesterday.