From July 15 to 30, around 90 highly educated young volunteers in HCM City have taken part in building new-style rural areas, transferring technical advances, promoting digital transformation and improving digital capacity for youth in the (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp.
The Korean National Police Agency expected some 4.3 million Korean citizens to take advantage of the international driving permit to drive in the Southeast Asian country. Vietnamese tourists are already able to drive in the RoK with an international driving permit.
Ngô Trường Sơn, chief of the Central Coordinating Office for New Rural Development, said 73.65 per cent of communes nationwide have been so far recognised as new-style rural areas, increasing by 11.3 per cent compared to 2020.
Talim is the strongest storm to affect northern Việt Nam in the past three years. The storm is forecast to cause widespread heavy rain in the northern region and the central province of Thanh Hóa from July 18-22.
Storm Talim, a tropical storm turned typhoon, has caused delays and disruptions to international flights, particularly between major cities in Việt Nam and China.
IPhO 2023 is considered the biggest event of its kind as it has attracted 398 students from 84 countries and territories across the world.
According to the Chi Ma Border Guard Station, since May 15, 2023, nearly 1,000 cards with the QR code have been issued. On average, 200-350 people use the cards to enter and exit the border gate daily.
Despite efforts by government and support from donors, students in mountainous areas still have to study in degraded classrooms without sufficient learning materials, a reason contributing to high drop-out rates in the areas and a barrier to teachers wanting to work there.
About 33,000 students, accounting for 44.3 per cent of the total, were left with no choice but to enrol in private high schools, continuation schools or vocational schools.
The HCM City Police are set to inspect all accommodation rented to foreigners to ensure their landlords complied with regulations related to reporting foreign residents.
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp is boosting the development of agricultural tourism to exploit its potential and improve income for farmers.
Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính on Sunday asked ministries and localities to concentrate on measures in response to storm Talim, the first storm expected to hit Vietnam this year.
By 1pm Monday, the storm would be 200km to the east of Leizhou Peninsula. By 1pm of July 18, the storm would be above the northern part of the Gulf of Tonkin, blowing at levels 10-11 and gusting at level 13.
The event aimed to mark the 28th anniversary of diplomatic relations and the 10th year of the comprehensive partnership between the two countries.
Mê Linh District has always focused on the one commune one product (OCOP) programme during recent years and now, it has 75 products recognised as OCOP ones.
Pedestrians have been for years indifferent towards pedestrian tunnels. Some tunnels on National Highway No 5 have been closed for not being used by anyone.
The HCM City health sector plans to offer free annual health check-ups for elderly residents aged 60 and above in an effort to reduce medical costs for them and improve their quality of life.
Many agricultural promotion models of Hà Nội's agriculture sector have been successfully implemented in various localities, contributing to the promotion of shifting the structure of crops and livestock towards commodity production and large-scale farming.
