Hà Nội could be hit by water shortages this summer because the Đà River water pipeline No.1 faced risk of re-breaking, while a second pipeline will not be finished by its scheduled deadline, according to city authorities.
Four out of 25 self-nominated candidates running for seats in the HCM City’s People’s Council for 2016 – 2021 were approved to the shortlist of 175 qualified candidates during the third consultative conference organised in HCM City on April 17.
Two young children and a teenager drowned in the Sơn Tịnh and Ba Tơ districts in the central province on Saturday.
The country will receive adequate power this summer, Đinh Thế Phúc, deputy head of Electricity Regulatory Authority of Việt Nam (ERAV) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, said.
A whirlwind swept across central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province on April 17, blowing the roofs off 50 houses.
Eleven workers were injured when a boiler exploded this morning at the Wood World Việt Nam JSC in Nam Cấm Industrial Park in Nghi Lộc District, Central Nghệ An Province.
HCM City Police on Thursday arrested four people involved in a tobacco-smuggling ring and confiscated 900 packages of contraband cigarettes.
Health insurance will cover payments for HIV/AIDS patients at 18 hospitals and preventive health centres by December as international aid for free anti-retroviral medicine and treatment will stop in 2018.
Clean Up Việt Nam Day will be organised on Sunday throughout the country including HCM City, Hà Nội, Phú Quốc Island, and Hạ Long Bay.
Police and experts discussed reasons and measures to tackle criminal cases in HCM City in a forum held by the Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper on Thursday.
Most owners of land to be acquired for Long Thành Airport in Đồng Nai Province, 40km away from HCM City, want the airport to be completed at the earliest so that they can move out soon to new residential areas earmarked for them.
Dragon fruit growers should work together to ensure stable outlet for their products, said Director of Bình Thuận Province’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mai Kiều.
All forces should be mobilised to cope with severe drought and saline intrusion in order to ensure food and fresh water for daily usage, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Đức Phát said at a meeting yesterday.
More than 130 cows and thousands of poultry died for drought in Ea Súp District in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk, according to the latest statistics of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Some 6,000 people in Việt Nam suffer from hemophilia, but more than 60 per cent have yet to be examined for the disease, experts said at a press conference yesterday.
Seventeen children and a teacher at a pre-school in the central Nghệ An Province’s Thanh Xuân Commune were hospitalised after being attacked by wild bees yesterday morning.
Nha Trang Port JSC has received a licence to revive Vân Phong Port in the central province of Khánh Hoà, which stalled several years ago after the original investor ran out of funds.
A handicraft booth at the fifth career day for the disabled in Hoàng Mai District, Hà Nội, yesterday.
Nine sixth grade schoolboys drowned yesterday afternoon while they were swimming in a section of the Trà Khúc River in central Quảng Ngãi Province’s Thanh Khiết Village.
The authorities in coordination with the concerned agencies yesterday began work on the construction of some key projects of 2016, including the building of the Cầm Thi cable-stayed bridge.
