The Department of Construction in HCM City has encouraged companies in Hiệp Phước and Linh Trung industrial parks in Nhà Bè and Thủ Đức districts to pilot construction of residential clusters with 25-sq m apartments priced at VNĐ100 million (US$4,405) for workers.
The number of approved visas for Vietnamese students to study in New Zealand in the past 12 months rose by 15 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to Education New Zealand (ENZ), New Zealand’s government agency for international education.
The Ministry of Health will release 1 million to 1.4 million of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in four wards in Nha Trang in an effort to reduce the number of incidences of dengue fever and Zika virus infections.
Water pumping stations in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provide more than 985,000cu.m daily to urban areas, meeting 89 per cent of the need, the Ministry of Construction said.
Recent torrential rains in many Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces in what is the dry season have damaged crops, including fruit trees.
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Hà Nội City People’s Procuracy will prosecute two Japanese nationals for allegedly smuggling seven golden statues through Nội Bài International Airport last August.
The People’s Committee of Gia Lai Province on Tuesday asked local authorities to investigate and prosecute lumberjacks operating in the northeast Chư Păh forest region.
The online poll on loudspeakers that Hà Nội’s department of information and communication started on January 25 has been temporarily closed since Tuesday afternoon.
Australian tourist Stephen John Scott, whose body was found in the waters of Hạ Long Bay on Monday, committed suicide, the Quảng Ninh police said.
HCM City will put up more road signs written in English to serve foreign tourists, an official of the city’s Department of Transport said on Monday.
Thousands of automotive parts and accessories were confiscated by the Hà Nội police from two gangs of thieves near the Hòa Bình (Giời) market in the capital city, the police said on Tuesday.
Police in northern Thanh Hóa Province on Tuesday said they had arrested a local for attempting to take a group of residents to China to work illegally.
Since July 2, 2017, birth certificates, health insurance cards and residence papers of newborns in southern coastal Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province are being delivered right to their homes.
Fines of some VNĐ1 billion (US$44,200) will be imposed on five production units that polluted a river branch in the capital city’s Hà Đông District, the city’s People’s Committee said.
About 1.14 million hectare of rice are to be planted in the northern provinces in the 2016-17 winter-spring crop, down 18,000 hectare compared to the 2015-16 winter-spring crop, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development reported on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has directed authorities to find the assets of suspects in corruption cases in order to prevent them from being hidden and to help in executing judgments against the accused.
Abrupt weather changes this year have triggered several disease outbreaks, according to health experts.
Doctors at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City have successfully performed the country’s first living paired-kidney exchange transplant.
Only 62 per cent of the 240,000 watercraft operating in the country are registered and quality verified, the Việt Nam Register Agency has reported.
