Việt Nam News

The Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence announced the initial outcomes of the search and rescue operations for the SU30 MK2 and CASA 212 aircraft yesterday.

The Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Việt Nam, the State Audit of Việt Nam (SAV), and the French International Technique Expertise Agency (Expertise France) have launched a project supporting SAV.

HCM City People’s Committee has asked the Ministry of Planning and Investment to repair four kilometres of old water drainage systems in central districts.

The Mekong Delta Forum 2016, entitled “Committed to a Prosperous and Climate Resilient Mekong Delta”, will be organised in HCM City on June 27 and 28, 2016 to discuss solutions for the critical challenges posed by climate change in the region.

Over 600 anaesthesiologists from Viêt Nam and 30 from abroad gathered for the 7^th Việt Nam Anaesthesiology Association Congress that opened in the central city of Quy Nhơn yesterday.

A project to create an intelligent health system for HCM City will be submitted to the People’s Committee next month, Lê Thái Hỷ, head of the city Department of Information and Communication has said.

Thirty-two outstanding pieces of journalism on saving and efficiently using energy were presented at the 2016 National Press Awards on energy conservation in Hà Nội this afternoon.

Hà Nội police on Thursday announced that four incidents involving laser lights directed at Nội Bài airport occurred this month, but the source of only one of the cases was identified.

There is a high chance that one of the two bodies found earlier at sea is of Major Nguyễn Văn Chính, a crewmember of the ill-fated CASA 212 aircraft. 

Rescue forces found two bodies identified as crewmembers of the crashed rescue aircraft CASA 212, as of 4pm yesterday.

The southern province of Bình Dương has proposed developing a rapid bus link with HCM City’s first metro line.

Tourism chiefs of the 10 ASEAN member countries have approved a declaration manifesting their common desire to boost tourism growth and align regional ecotourism destinations during a roundtable in Champasak, Laos on Wednesday as part of the first-ever ASEAN Ecotourism Forum.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình has asked the Ministry of Home Affairs to review the employment, management and assessment of State employees’ performance to improve government workers’ skills.

Along with the country’s overall strategy to develop its accounting and auditing sector to suit global integration the Vietnamese accounting and financing sector needs high-quality staff, experts say.

Few migrant workers in the informal sector have proper understanding about their rights in host localities and how to exercise those rights, particularly those relating to social welfare, chairwoman of Hà Nội’s Women Union Trần Thị Phương Hoa said.

The Minister of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) Trần Hồng Hà approved the establishment of an evaluation council to assess the potential resources of bauxite and laterite ore in southern Việt Nam.

The Hải Nguyên Agriculture Limited Company in Cần Thơ City’s Ninh Kiều District has violated various administrative and environmental regulations, posing a serious threat to the public, according to police.

The People’s Committee of Bến Tre Province has asked the government to buy 92,000 tonnes of salt in stock in Bình Đại and Ba Tri districts.