The revised Law on Child Protection, Care and Education will be voted on this Tuesday, during the ongoing final meeting of the 13th National Assembly. Much attention has been focused on raising the legal age of a child in Việt Nam from 16 to 18. Việt Nam News spoke to child specialists about this issue.
A project that will support university students with disaiblities in their studies was launched by the HCM City Disability Research and Capacity Development Centre on Thursday (March 31)
HCM City wants to co-operate with Microsoft on e-government to improve the city’s management, the secretary of HCM City’s Party Committee, Đinh La Thăng, said at a meeting held Thursday in the city.
A school security guard in Lào Cai Province has been arrested after being accused of sexually assaulting several children.
The government of HCM City plans to invest VNĐ480 billion (US$21 million) to plant trees covering a total of 1,613 hectares, with the target of having 40 per cent of the city with green cover by 2020.
The 2016 Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Youth Week in conjunction with the Model ASEM opened in Hà Nội yesterday.
Construction began yesterday on a new bridge that will replace the 113-year-old Ghềnh Railway Bridge in the southern province of Đồng Nai, which collapsed last month after being hit by a barge.
The government of HCM City sought support from the Netherlands for climate change and sea-level rise adaptation during a recent meeting with Melanie Schultz van Haegen, Minister of Infrastructure and Environment of Netherlands, held in HCM City.
Farmers in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta’s areas affected by saline intrusion have been urged to switch to other crops or breed shrimp or fish. Experts have said that farmers in these areas should gradually adapt to saline-water cultivation models.
A 60m-long iron bridge collapsed early on Friday in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk’s Xuân Phú Commune, injuring three people.
Authorities of Quảng Ngãi Province has asked a trillionsof đồng-worth hydropower plant to be suspended from construction as it was destroying the adjacent protection forest area.
Police yesterday arrested Director of Cần Thơ City-based Thiên Mã Seafood Import-Export Company Phan Bá Tòng for alleged economic violations that caused losses worth about US$31.4 million.
A major fire which broke out yesterday in a shoe production workshop in HCM City’s Tân Bình industrial zone, has destroyed a 3,000-sq.m workshop in the area, the fire fighting department said.
Three coach operators have jointed a pilot programme to offer rides for about VNĐ40,000 (US$1.8) per ride from downtown Hà Nội to Nội Bài International Airport beginning this month.
A ship of the Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No. 2 (MRCC Đà Nẵng 2) rescued and towed a vessel with six crew members to port yesterday.
The HCM City Police yesterday seized seven people for allegedly defrauding other people of VNĐ10 billion (US$448,600) via Facebook.
Việt Nam needs at least 100 years and over US$10 billion to clear all the bombs and mines left from the wars, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
The Sài Gòn Railway Company has rejected a proposal that having the HCM City station and rail tracks in an urban area causes traffic congestion and so should be moved to the suburbs or a neighbouring province.
In the second quarter of this year HCM City-based companies will need to fill 70,000 job vacancies.
German company GIZ and the General Directorate of Energy yesterday hosted a consultation workshop for the National Biomass Energy Development and Utilization Planning.
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