Việt Nam News

The Sài Gòn Water Corporation (Sawaco) has submitted a plan to build underground water tanks around HCM City to store water from treatment plants.

More than VNĐ160 billion (US$ 7.2 million) will be invested in a project to improve population quality between 2016 and 2020 in the city.

Job positions for mid-level and senior managers rose by 38 per cent in the second quarter against the first three months of the year, according to job recruiting agency Navigos Search.

Dozen of tonnes of waste, allegedly discharged by Hưng Nghiệp Formosa Hà Tĩnh Steel Company, were discovered buried in a landfill in central Hà Tĩnh Province’s Thiên Cầm Town in Cẩm Xuyên District.

Stable economic growth has led to increased labour demand in HCM City in the first half of the year, according to HCM City’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Farmers of the northern mountainous Tuyên Quang Province’s Bình An Commune harvest rice during a bumper crop.

Hà Nội University of Science and Technology (HUST) and UTS:INSEARCH, the University of Technology Sydney’s English college, have launched a programme to boost the English language skills of Vietnamese researchers.

Scientists and government officials have urged stronger connectivity among countries through which the Mekong River flows to enhance adaptation to climate change and reduce its effects such as saline intrusion and drought. 

 A new online portal will enable Vietnamese people living overseas to learn Vietnamese via the Internet, following a project recently approved by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

The Việt Nam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) has asked the National Salary Council to increase regional minimum wages in 2017 by 10-11 per cent from the current rates.

A passenger coach collided head-on with a car in the central Đà Nẵng City early this morning, seriously injuring four people.

The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed all city agencies and city-owned enterprises to replace communication by paper with text messages and emails.

The Ministry of Information and Communications and the Việt Nam Youth Union yesterday launched a writing contest on Việt Nam’s sovereignty over its sea and islands for young overseas Vietnamese.

Motorbikes were the main cause of traffic accidents in Hồ Chí Minh City in the first six months of the year, a meeting on traffic safety heard yesterday afternoon.

The HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has said it will step up checks of service establishments that are likely to surreptitiously employ sex workers to combat prostitution.

When a local official informed her last year that her family was no longer poor, the 42-year-old woman in Ward 15 in HCM City’s District 8 was not happy.

This was because her family would no longer get subsidised health insurance or education for her children besides other benefits.

The People’s Committee of HCM City has told relevant agencies that they would be held fully responsible for illegal demolition of century-old villas.

An outbreak of diphtheria in the past week in the central province of Bình Phước has resulted in three deaths, a health official said.