Enterprises located in key economic areas of the south where the industry and supporting services are developing have raised concerns over the lack of soft skills of graduates despite the enhanced co-operation between universities and colleges, and enterprises.
Nearly 900,000 students nationwide yesterday registered for the national high school exam, the most important exam after 12 years of study, which takes place from today until July 4.
Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tiến Dũng yesterday announced that the Taiwanese Hưng Nghiệp Formosa Hà Tĩnh Steel Corporation was responsible for the massive fish deaths in several central Vietnamese provinces in the past few months.
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Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has given the nod to a package worth over VNĐ5.3 trillion (US$236 million) to invest in the construction of five hospitals in HCM City.
Hà Nội will set up an inter-sector team to inspect the business operations and the safety of boats and floating houses on West Lake by next month, Vũ Văn Viện, the city’s Transport Department director said.
Unsightly and dilapidated temporary houses for construction workers that have long since been abandoned are affecting the landscape in some parts of the city.
As many as six more cases of Japanese encephalitis (JE) have been reported in Hà Nội over the past week, raising the total cases to nine, the city’s Preventive Medicine Centre announced yesterday.
An online football betting and gambling ring was busted on Wednesday afternoon by the capital city’s police in Hoàng Mai District. The betting and gambling money seized by the police was worth VNĐ6 billion (roughly US$280,000).
Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has asked the Việt Nam Social Insurance and Ministry of Health to work harder in the time ahead to have at least 90 per cent of the population covered by health insurance by 2020, as demanded by the Prime Minister.
A strengthened co-operative mechanism between the Việt Nam Fatherland Front and other State anti-corruption agencies is needed to better oversee and detect corruption.
Four Chinese nationals were arrested for alleged swindling and misappropriation of assets, the city police said. Those arrested are Guan Zao, 46, Ke Qinying, 52, Xie Yuqiong, 44, and Zang Huamei, 47.
Locals in the southern province of Tây Ninh have been asked to return the land on which they have illegally encroached to forestry projects, the provincial Agriculture and Rural Development Department said.
The Kon Tum People’s Committee has proposed construction of a highway from the Bờ Y International Border Gate in the province to Pleiku City in Gia Lai Central Highlands Province.
Hà Nội will build six new interprovincial coach terminals based on the transport scheme of the city by 2030, with a vision for 2050.
The Hà Nội People’s Court yesterday sentenced a 60-year-old man to 30 years’ imprisonment for fraud for misappropriating properties and making fake seals of state organisations.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) will propose a new project to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc in connection with the recent fish deaths in four central provinces.
Hà Nội’s healthcare system needs thorough plans for infrastructure and human resources, or it will lag behind other modernised cities, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung said.
Two more bodies identified as crewmembers of rescue aircraft CASA 212 were found yesterday near the position it crashed in the Tonkin Gulf.
