People from Hà Tĩnh Province’s Lộc Hà District, one of the worst affected by the marine environment disaster earlier this year, started getting compensation with total amount of VNĐ 270 billion (approx. US$ 9.3 million) on Sunday.
Large-scale illegal quarry exploitation has been taking place for months in Đắk Nia Commune in Gia Nghĩa Township of the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Đắk Nông.
Financial experts have called for a better legal framework to curb policy-related risks so that projects, particularly road projects in Việt Nam, could be made more attractive to foreign investors.
Retirement age will not be increased for workers doing hard and poisonous work, said Bùi Sỹ Lợi, deputy chairman of the National Assembly’s Social Affairs Committee, during a debate held by the Government Portal on Friday.
The Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed Viet Nam’s first microcephaly case likely related to the Zika virus.
Nguyễn Việt Hùng, a farmer in Lâm Hà District of the Central Highlands Lâm Đồng Province heaves a sigh with hard-to-conceal disappointment on his face when visiting his macadamia garden.
Photo without storyThe Việt Nam Fatherland Front, in co-ordination with the Việt Nam Women’s Union and the State Bank of Việt Nam, launched a week of saving yesterday for World Savings Day.
More than 1,500 children with autism come to the National Hospital of Acupuncture for treatment every year, said head of the hospital Associate Prof Dr Nguyễn Bá Quang at conference on Vietnamese high-tech acupuncture therapy for paediatric diseases and cerebrovascular diseases held last Saturday.
The mountains and hills in Hoà Nhơn Commune of Hoà Phong District, seen from National Highway 14B, seem to have barely survived a particularly devastating disaster – except that this disaster is wholly man-made.
Developing sustainable farming and new-style rural areas should be the ultimate goals of the agricultural sector in the country’s central provinces.
The number of public kindergartens accepting children aged six to 18 months in the 2016-2017 academic year increased by 68 compared to the previous school year, according to the HCM City Department of Education and Training.
The fourth graders of Đoàn Thị Điểm Primary School in Hà Nội won the three highest prizes in the primary category in the final round of the WeCode 2016 Contest held last Saturday.
Việt Nam has discovered more than 1,080 species of marine fish, including many of high economic values such as skipjack tuna, Japanese horse mackerel, yellowtail scad, largehead hairtail (or beltfish), ariid catfish, among others.
A campaign was launched in Hà Nội yesterday aiming to raise the awareness of the importance of safe herbal products.
Hi-tech shrimp farming models – complete with net house, canvas-lined ponds to a full-fledged water treatment plant system – requires billions of đồng in investment per hectare. However, the effectiveness of such model is convincing enough that many farmers in the Southeastern region are willing to give it a try.
The Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Conference 2016, themed “Youth and civic engagement”, was held today by the US Embassy in Việt Nam and the Center for Sustainable Development Studies (CSDS).
Construction inspectors in Hà Nội, with a large number of 1,600 people from municipal level to district and commune levels, are not working effectively.
Thousands of billion of đồng invested in vocational training for residents of northern mountainous provinces have produced little effectiveness, according to the General Department of Vocational Training.
RMIT Vietnam has launched the university’s first international-standard PhD programme with three degree options: Business, Management, or Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
An education organisation from Japan, Leave a Nest, in collaboration with the Self Wing Việt Nam Company began pilot project on nature research education for students at junior secondary schools in Đà Nẵng.
