Việt Nam News

Khơ Mú Ethnic minority people play a traditional game in the northern mountainous Điện Biên Province’s Mường Ảng District. — VNS Photo Đoàn Tùng

The provincial People’s Committee and Party Committee officially put into operation a hotline and an email address yesterday to receive opinions and proposals from local organisations, businesses and residents.

The provincial police and Market Watch Department yesterday confiscated 9.7 tonnes of medicinal herbs with unknown origins used to make Chinese traditional medicine.

HCM City’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment has urged the administration to provide relief to people whose houses have been affected by recent road upgrades.

Dug hole for exploiting water at drought-caused barren land cultivation in the Central Highlands ( Tây Nguyên) region has been becoming unsafe traps for local residents and animal.

Candidates for the National Assembly deputies yesterday had a meeting with voters in Biên Hòa City in the southern province of Đồng Nai.

The municipal People’s Committee has set up an inter-sector working team to help residents manage difficulties in applying for the certificate of land-use rights and ownership of housing and associated assets on the land, known as red books.

Transport Ministry called on municipal People’s Committees, transport firms and relevant agencies join promoting VinaTrucking – the first e-commerce transport trading floor in Việt Nam.

Family medical clinics in HCM City, established more than two years ago, have yet to achieve their goal of providing comprehensive primary care as they are still short of doctors.

The Vietnam Automobile Association has asked Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc to resolve problems that transport firms face, including those relating to road maintenance fees, the distance between toll booths and the management of transport prices, an official said.

HCM City’s Department of Health has proposed the city authority to remove all temporary markets and set up an agency to assure the food safety and hygiene in the city, although it said this was a hard and time-costing task.

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng said he appreciated the central province of Khánh Hòa’s development, but urged the province’s leaders and people to continue creating new initiatives to unlock its full potential. 

The Ministry of Planning and Investment yesterday recommended Government five key actions to address the incidents of massive fish die-off along central coastal provinces since early last month.

A fisherman cleans the hull of his fishing vessel by burning to remove shipworms in north-eastern Quảng Ninh Province’s Bến Do Fish Market. — VNS Photo Việt Thanh

The Vietnam Maritime Administration has asked provincial port authorities to inform ship owners and management companies of acts of piracy in the waters off east Sabah, Malaysia, and southern Philippines.

The municipal People’s Committee has set up an inter-sector working team to help residents manage difficulties in applying for the certificate of land-use rights and ownership of housing and associated assets on the land, known as red books.

Work has started on the construction of a medical high-tech centre that specialises in endoscopic surgery and digestion treatment at the Saint Paul General Hospital in Hà Nội.

The An Giang Police have seized more than 2,000 different plant pesticides, which are not allowed to be manufactured and circulated in Việt Nam.