Ministries must intensify their actions to prevent all kinds of illegal river-bed mining and strictly punish those found to be illegally exploiting sand across the country, said Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng.
Livestock husbandry and forestry plantation have maintained good growth, but agricultural production slowed over the last six months, a senior official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has said.
Việt Nam has failed to issue a national certificate of quality for organic produce, creating obstacles for local producers pioneering in developing organic agriculture.
Many fishermen in the central province of Khánh Hoà are becoming prosperous by catching and selling young lobsters to breeding farms.
HCM City plans to limit vehicles on several downtown streets on weekend evenings in the future, according to the Department of Transport.
Students took their first two national high school exams in mathematics and a foreign language.
Only 20 per cent of workers at industrial zones have stable accommodations, prompting an urgent need to improve living conditions for labourers there, a senior official told a conference in Hà Nội yesterday.
The southwestern province of Kiên Giang has set up 14 large-scale rice fields for growing crops in accordance with the Vietnamese Good Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) standards as part of a four-year programme.
Hà Nội will crackdown and strictly fine those providing early gender indications of foetuses through ultrasound scans, said Nguyễn Đình Lân, deputy head of the city’s Population and Family Planning Department.
The central city plans to establish a tourism police force as a pilot project to boost security for tourists and the tourism environment in the 2016-20 period.
The Vietnamese Government has decided to extend visa exemptions by an additional year for tourists from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
The number of children suffering from foot-hand-mouth disease in June in the southern province of Đồng Nai has increased compared with the previous months, the provincial Preventive Medicines Centre said.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved rules for the management and operation of Cam Ranh International Port in central Khánh Hòa province’s Cam Ranh Bay.
The body of the last missing person involved in a boating accident in this Central Highlands province was found yesterday afternoon.
PM Nguyễn Xuân Phúc this morning asked Deputy PM Vương Đình Huệ and Minister of Finance Đinh Tiến Dũng to prepare a plan for the compensation of US$500 million received from Formosa.
More than 600,000 teachers and principals nationwide will train on the new curriculum and pedagogical approaches to help adapt teaching practices to the needs of every student and to improve teaching quality.
The number of unemployed young people aged 15 to 24 was remarkably high for the first six months of the year, accounting for 47 per cent of unemployed workers, the General Directorate of Statistics (GDS) said.
Enterprises located in key economic areas of the south where the industry and supporting services are developing have raised concerns over the lack of soft skills of graduates despite the enhanced co-operation between universities and colleges, and enterprises.
Nearly 900,000 students nationwide yesterday registered for the national high school exam, the most important exam after 12 years of study, which takes place from today until July 4.
