The People’s Committee of the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum has decided to withdrawn the investment certificate of Đắk Brot Hydropower Plant and stop construction in response to long delays.
The Việt Nam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee, VFF local units and their member organisations have decided to set aside VNĐ50.8 billion (US$2.3 million) to support provinces affected by prolonged droughts, saline intrusion and mass fish death.
Việt Nam has seen a remarkable reduction in the exposure rate to secondhand smoke (SHS) over the past decade, an official has said.
Illegal Vietnamese workers in South Korea who voluntarily return home from May 1 to September 30 this year will not have to pay any administrative penalties.
Nearly 97,000 labourers were employed in the first four months of the year, a year-on-year increase of 0.29 per cent, according to a report of the city’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
Disasters such as drought, salt water intrusion and severe cold have already caused higher financial losses this year than last year.
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The marine economy in Mekong Delta’s Kiên Giang Province has developed rapidly over the past five years after local government investment of VNĐ111 trillion (US$5 billion) in the 2011 – 2015 period.
Adopting drastic measures to minimise the impact of prostitution on society was identified as the core task of the prostitution prevention programme for 2016-20.
The Hòa Bình Sugarcane and Sugar JSC will pay more than VNĐ1.4 billion (US$62,790) as compensation to the households that suffered from the mass fish deaths along the Bưởi River.
An integration programme on military – civil medical services has created an extensive network of healthcare services and disease prevention and consolidated the country’s healthcare system at the grassroots over the past ten years.
The trial installation of security camera systems in the central city of Đà Nẵng has helped the city to discover and prevent hundreds of crimes.
HCM City authorities are taking several measures to ease traffic congestion at the city’s main gateways, including widening of a section of National Highway No. 13 and the construction of an underground tunnel.
Women participating in a seminar yesterday in the southern province of Bình Thuận said collaboration on gender issues was essential in building laws and policies.
More than 50 per cent of asthma patients have poor control of their disease, despite the availability of treatments to help manage their condition, according to the Society of Asthma and Allergy and Clinical Immunology in HCM City.
Concerned sectors must give stricter punishment to violations related to waterway traffic safety, illegal mineral exploiting and dike safety in Hà Nội, said Nguyễn Thế Hùng, deputy chairman of the Hà Nội People’s Committee in a conference held on Tuesday in the capital.
One person was killed and 18 others were seriously injured when a shuttle bus carrying workers flipped over and rolled over several times in Long An Province on Tuesday (May 10) night.
There are no Zika patients in District 7, where a South Korean woman found to have the disease had lived and worked, the HCM City Preventive Medicine Centre said on Tuesday.
Chairman of the People’s Committee of Hà Nội Nguyễn Đức Chung has given the green light to prepare a plan to build an eco resort in Đông Anh District.
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The Ministry of Health has collected samples of two beverages sold by Việt Nam URC Co., Ltd., to test for lead in response to allegations it was selling poor-quality products.
