North braces for cold weather

The National Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention and Control and the National Committee for Search and Rescue sent an announcement yesterday telling provincial and local authorities in northern and coastal provinces, ministries and agencies to prepare for coming cold weather.

VN aims to link SE Asia to Indian Ocean

Việt Nam plans to invest in its transport infrastructure comprehensively while linking development strategies among sectors in order to develop a multi-modal transport environment, making the country the gateway connecting East Asia to the Indian Ocean.

Cà Mau Province copes with climate change

Huỳnh Quốc Toản, a resident from Phú Tân Commune in Cà Mau Province’s Phú Tân District, said he no longer worried about his house being ruined by natural disasters.

Traps snap endangered species

Biologists have found 22 animal species, including nine endangered ones, through a wildlife supervision programme in the Bà Nà-Núi Chúa Nature Reserve near the central city of Đà Nẵng.

Businesses on West Lake to be closed

Service and entertainment businesses in the West Lake area will be closed for a cleaning and renovating project, the Hà Nội People’s Committee said in an official document.

Bắc Ninh trade villages face major pollution

Pollution caused by different trade villages in the northern province of Bắc Ninh are adversely affecting local residents’ health and the economic development, according to a new study.

Fire destroys store in Đắk Lắk

A fire broke out at 4am today at a commercial property in the Central Highlands (Tây Nguyên) province of Đắk Lắk’s Krông Pắk District, leading to property damage, but no fatalities were reported.

Gov’t tightens media rules

A digital copy of every news and feature story published on online newspapers must be stored independently and kept unchanged for at least one year for inspection purpose, the government has said.

Agriculture administrative procedures to go online in Q1

Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hà Công Tuấn on Wednesday asked relevant agencies to speed up the ministry’s online public services, making all agriculture administrative procedures available online by the end of next month.

HN to tighten festival food inspections

Hà Nội’s Department of Health would deploy mobile food testing labs to deter unsafe food sold at restaurants and street vendors where spring festivals take place.

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