Việt Nam News

HCM City’s Fire Prevention and Fighting Police Department's proposal to purchase a firefighting helicopter worth VNĐ1 trillion (US$44.8 million) to tackle high-rise fires in the city has face some oppositions from experts.

The action month on food safety will start on the 15th of this month in HCM City, the Food Safety and Hygiene Department said.

The Francophone Universities Agency (AUF) will focus its future plans on dealing with challenges that its university members are currently facing in improving quality of teaching and graduates.

HCM City authorities’ efforts to relocate people living in slums along the city’s polluted canals as part of its urban upgrade programme faces a major hurdle: most of the slum dwellers do not want to move since their livelihoods are dislocated.  

As the country's National Assembly (NA) election day, scheduled for May 22, approaches, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) is promoting stronger political participation by women.

The Project Management Board No.1 has proposed the Ministry of Transport should increase funding for the Tân Phú-Bảo Lộc Expressway in the Central Highland province of Lâm Đồng.

Police in this central province have arrested a truck driver who fled the scene of an accident in Vạn Hà Township that killed a mother and her child yesterday morning.

The US Government will continue to provide disaster relief grants to help Việt Nam respond to the severe drought and saltwater intrusion affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the southern provinces and Central Highlands, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced last Friday.

 In the first three months of the year, 121 fires, three-fourth of the number during the same period last year, occurred, injuring nine people.

HCM City has announced that it will pump an estimated VNĐ11.61 trillion into 84 projects in an attempt to reduce floods over the next five years.

Việt Nam’s maritime force chased six Chinese fishing vessels out of its waters in the central province of Quảng Bình, the municipal border defence force confirmed yesterday.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) has detained 23 Vietnamese fishermen on charges of illegally fishing in the waters off of Terengganu and Pahang states.

Officials from the transport sectors of southern provinces urged the government to issue special policies to encourage the use of compressed natural gas (CNG) in public transportation.

Local and international experts have proposed solutions to help HCM City secure its short- and long-term water supply.

Authorities have reached their first conclusion on the cause of the sinkhole collapse last weekend in Hà Nội’s Mỹ Đức District, saying it was triggered by a natural cause

Thai company SCG has announced 400 scholarships worth VND4 million (US$180) each and called on outstanding secondary school students from underprivileged families in seven cities and provinces to apply for them.

Many farmers who breed brackish-water shrimp in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have cut back on production because of high salinity this year.

Nearly 9,000 litres of suspected smuggled petrol that was seized early last month originated from military sources, reported National Steering Committee 389.