Việt Nam News

Authorities and forest owners in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta have stepped up measures to prevent forest fires as the region is in its peak dry season.

Some routes that were installed with ITS right after completion have promoted efficiency in the management, operation and maintenance process and improved traffic safety.

Deputy Foreign Minister Đỗ Hùng Việt affirmed that as a responsible member of the Francophone community, Việt Nam has been and will continue to actively engage in the cooperation mechanism’s development.

They underscored the pivotal role of driver awareness, motoring skills, vehicle quality and traffic infrastructure in ensuring highway safety.

The average age of offenders was 17.5 years for males and 15.8 years for females.

Understanding the hardships faced by marginalised workers, Nguyễn Văn Phúc opened a leather workshop and welcomed his "street brothers" to work with him. Their lives have changed for the better as they learn new skills, have stable jobs to stand on their own feet and support their families.

A businessman was found guilty of embezzling VNĐ1 trillion (US$40.3 million) from Trương Mỹ Lan, chairwoman of Vạn Thịnh Phát property developer, and faces a possible 10-year prison sentence recommended by the HCM City People’s Procuracy.

The submission period for entries runs from March 20, 2024, to August 20, 2024, with each author allowed to submit no more than 10 entries.

New signs, speed restrictions, markings, reflective road studs and flexible bollards are being installed to make driving safer.

According to the World Health Organisation, Việt Nam’s vaccination coverage in recent years has been impacted the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccine supply’s interruption in the 2023 expanded program on immunisation.

Under the MoU, the two sides will support 1,000 Vietnamese workers to work in the agricultural industry in Australia under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme, beginning this year.

Minister of Health Đào Hồng Lan highlighted at the 2024 Northern Hospital Directors Club conference that shortages of medicine and medical equipment in some public health facilities have increased since the peak of COVID-19 prevention and control.

She suggested guiding the implementation of the science and technology plan for the healthcare sector for the period of 2024-2025 to ensure compliance, effectiveness, feasibility and timeliness.

Over 30 years, the Tân Hưng District health sector has achieved positive results and made an important contribution to caring for and improving people's health.

The two sides agreed to continue promoting collaboration across the fields, including social safety and order in border areas; cross-border drug crime prevention and combat; border management and demarcation; agriculture - trade; education, culture, tourism, health care, transport, and search and repatriation of martyrs' remains, among others. 

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Lê Công Thành and Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management Mark Harbers held that both nations have similar natural environments and been hard hit by climate change, with Việt Nam’s Mekong Delta region experiencing land erosion, saline intrusion and sand depletion, and 25 per cent of the Netherlands’ areas below the sea level.

Airlines that regularly operate international flights to Việt Nam have received a letter from the CAAV about the control of air travel documents for passengers arriving and departing the country.

The Northern Midland and Mountainous Region had the highest poverty rate (11.29 per cent) with 364,681 households in need, followed by the Central Highlands (6.40 per cent), and the North Central Region and Central Coast (3.83 per cent).