Việt Nam News

The Embassy of France in Việt Nam and the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Việt Nam (CCIFV) are organising the 2016 French-Vietnamese Job Fair on May 14 in HCM City.

More than 80 per cent of companies in HCM City requires candidates having at least one year-work experience before recruiting them for IT-related jobs.

The HCM City Social Insurance Agency on Wednesday began to pay monthly pensions and social insurance benefits to pensioners through post offices in a few more districts.

Four students drowned in the ocean off a beach in Khánh Hòa Province on Wednesday. 

The Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No 2 (MRCC Đà Nẵng) rescued 34 fishermen from a sunken fishing ship off the Hoàng Sa Islands (Paracels) of Việt Nam on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has officially announced addresses of 69 stores nation-wide certified for providing food products meeting safety control requirements.

The Prime Minister has approved all the technical support programmes for the HCM City Green Transport Development Project to improve the efficiency of public buses along a high-priority corridor.

United Nations (UN) Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson made a fact-finding trip to the southern province of BếnTre yesterday to find out about the impacts of ongoing drought and saline intrusion.

All the water samples taken from seaside resorts in the four central costal provinces hard hit by mass fish deaths recently are within the safe levels, according to a recent report.

The Prime Minister has approved the contents of a project worth over US$122 million to support the development of border areas in five Central Highlands provinces.

Dredging the river bed and trading in agricultural products on the Cầu and Đuống rivers will be banned, the northern province of Bắc Ninh’s People’s Committee has reported.

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.