Leaders of the southern Đồng Nai Province have requested the Government’s permission to use VNĐ1 trillion (US$44.76 million) from the State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) to build two resettlement areas.
Mirinae, the first storm to hit Việt Nam this year, made landfall with wind speeds of level 11–12 (about 100-130km per hour). It damaged crops, uprooted thousands of trees and caused massive power cuts in the north including in Hà Nội, Thái Bình, Hải Phòng, Hà Nam and Ninh Bình.
Authorities of the northern Ninh Bình Province’s Gia Viễn District are making every effort to wipe out illegal gathering areas of building materials built along the Hoàng Long River dike, said Nguyễn Anh Tuấn, deputy chairman of the district People’s Committee.
Globalisation and technology are transforming universities and colleges worldwide, leading to different approaches in research and education, including in Việt Nam, the president of University of Victoria in Canada said at a conference in HCM City.
The number of children with respiratory infections admitted to children’s hospitals in HCM City has soared in the last few days.
The number of children in the city suffering from a condition where the chest appears sunken has increased unusually, doctors from Paediatrics Hospital No 1 said.
Da Nang city’s immigration public security force and Ngũ Hành Sơn Police seized dozens of posters that had illegally printed the local beach under the name ‘China Beach’ at a tour service company in the city.
The search to find an Su30-MK2 aircraft that crashed off central Nghệ An Province has ended, Dương Minh Hiền, deputy commander of central Nghệ An Province’s Military Command, told local media yesterday.
An 11-hectare centre for chemical trading will be built near Phong Phú Industrial Park in HCM City’s District 8 to replace Kim Biên Market, known as the “market of death” for its sale of toxic, and sometimes banned, chemicals.
The Bình Phước Food Administration yesterday ordered the suspension of a company’s operations following food poisoning of 33 workers who had to be hospitalised on Monday.
Typhoon Mirinae, the first to hit Việt Nam this year, has caused human and property damage in the north of the country after it rolled into the mainland from the midnight of Wednesday.
Relevant offices of Việt Nam and Laos are jointly investigating a large-scale pơ mu forest destruction ring, said an official from Quảng Nam Province People’s Committee.
HCM City plans to launch a pilot programme on using technology to control and trace the origin of pork in an effort to ensure consumer health and rights.
An alleged Chinese hacker group carried out several cyberspace attacks on Viet Nam’s two biggest airports and the official website of the national flag-carrier Vietnam Airlines this afternoon.
All cases causing airway insecurity at levels B and C (A is the highest level) in the first six months this year were made by people, and this fact raised a “red” alarm about work force quality in the airway sector, said the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV).
Chronic hepatitis is a serious medical problem in Việt Nam, and liver cancer claims the most lives, the Preventive Medicines Department under the Ministry of Health (MoH) said.
The Hà Nội police will be given smart devices to check whether motorbike drivers have correctly transfered their vehicle ownership.
A Vietnamese flight attendant and her male companion have been arrested by Nội Bài International Airport Customs while trying to smuggle more than 3kg of gold into South Korea.
Mass fish deaths in Âm River were reported by the local people in the mountainous Lang Chánh District of Thanh Hóa yesterday afternoon.
