Việt Nam News

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.

Central Nghệ An Province’s Nghi Lộc District has asked provincial authorities to create jobs for unemployed residents who blocked traffic on the road leading to a nearby industrial zone early this week.

The Ninh Thuận Province General Hospital yesterday opened a cardio-vascular intervention unit for specialised cardiac monitoring and procedures.

The People’s Committee of central Nghệ An Province has proposed that the Ministry of Transport and relevant authorities upgrade an old terminal at the Vinh Airport into an international one.

The Transport Ministry will invest around VNĐ115 trillion (US$5.17 billion) in transport infrastructure projects in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) region over the next four years, according to the Steering Committee for the Central Highlands region.

Officials and teachers are pressing for more government assistance for school teachers in remote areas.

A new bus station in HCM City’s eastern Long Bình Ward in District 9 will be built next year with a total investment of VNĐ4 trillion (US$179.3 million).

While online enrollment is expected to help ease pressure on parents and students in Hà Nội capital city, it also reveals obstacles which should be tackled to promote the effectiveness of this method.

All power and telecommunications cables in the city are expected to be buried underground by 2020, the HCM City Power Corporation has said.

HCM City is striving to record a gross regional domestic production (GRDP) growth of 8 per cent in 2016.

The Việt Nam National Administration of Tourism has revoked the licence of a tourist company in Khánh Hòa Province for illegally employing Chinese nationals and other violations.