Việt Nam News

The prime minister has approved the Hà Nội People’s Committee plan for a new pilot passenger service connecting Nội Bài International Airport and the city’s downtown area.

A haemophilia treatment centre will soon be set up at HCM City’s Blood Transfusion and Hematology Hospital (BTH), according to its director.

Good benefits are the key driver of employee engagement as well as a major attractor of talented staff, according to human resource professionals working in Việt Nam.

Several provinces and cities with “hot spots” of prostitutes will be chosen to run a pilot model of managing prostitutes to prevent the evil and reduce its harm to the community.

Deputy PM Phúc, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Đức Phát and their entourage visited a 70ha rice field in Chư Dôn Commune, Chư Pưh District, which was badly damaged by the unprecedented drought. 

Water discharged from a Chinese reservoir will reach the Mekong Delta region in 19 days, the water resource directorate’s department of irrigation and dam safety head Đồng Văn Tự said. 

Việt Nam recorded nearly 5,000 road accidents in the first three months of the year, the National Traffic Safety Committee said, in which 2,193 people died and 4,522 were injured.

An historic flood, similar to the flood that battered the central region with 2,000 mm of rain in 1999, is predicted to hit Việt Nam in the second half of this year after the most severe drought in 100 years is forecasted to end by June.

Việt Nam will have nearly two million hectares of urban area by 2020, the natural resources and environment ministry has said.

Japan has committed to give more than US$400,000 for four community projects across Việt Nam as a part of its long-term aid to the country.

The chairman of the central coastal city of Đà Nẵng has signed a decision to stop the operation of the Hoà Phát stone quarry because of environmental pollution.

A recent survey has found that people in 10 selected Vietnamese provinces and cities are generally satisfied with local public administration services. 

The Project Management Unit No.6 has submitted to the Ministry of Transport plans to build a 19.5km highway linking the central provinces of Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh.

Insurer Bảo Việt Group held a ceremony to donate a motor boat worth VNĐ3.5 billion ($156,200) to soldiers on Trường Sa Archipelago on Tuesday.

HCM City plans to inspect the conditions of bridges and ensure safety after a barge hit the Ghềnh Bridge recently on Đồng Nai River, causing it to collapse.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng has approved a proposal from the Ministry of Transport and Việt Nam Railway to spend VNĐ298.5 billion (US$13.5 million) to restore Ghềnh Railway Bridge, which collapsed on Sunday after being hit by a barge carrying 800 tonnes of sand on Đồng Nai River.

Blogger Nguyễn Hữu Vinh and his assistant Nguyễn Thị Minh Thúy were sentenced to five and three years in prison, respectively, on the charge of abusing the rights to democracy and freedom to infringe on the interests of the State and rights and interests of organisations and citizens, said a verdict at a trial in Hà Nội yesterday. 

The HCM City’s Department of Transport’s Public Transport Management and Operation Center (PTMO) and  Koa Sha Media Vietnam.