Việt Nam News

As of April this year, a total of 471 people receive a monthly pension of more than VNĐ20 million ($850), said VSS.

A climate change scenario created in 2016 showed that if the sea level rises by 100 cm, and if no solutions are taken, some 39% of the total area of Mekong Delta will face the risk of flooding. Localities with the highest risk are Hậu Giang (over 80 per cent of area), Kiên Giang (nearly 77 per cent) and Cà Mau (about 58 per cent).

In order to build a new-style countryside, many people in remote, isolated and ethnic minority communes in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Gia Lai have become aware of the common interest and voluntarily donated their land to build roads, making their villages be more spacious rural areas.

The ring road will cover 112 km with a total investment of VNĐ85 trillion (US$3.62 billion), connecting three localities in the northern region.

Shinhan Bank Vietnam donated 110 bicycles and gift boxes and gave away scholarships worth VNĐ100 million (US$4,250) to underprivileged students at the SOS Children Village during its “Bike Run” event in Hà Nội on June 22 in the presence of the Korean First Lady Kim Keon Hee.

A programme has shared knowledge on building a happy family to 100 outstanding families of workers and public employees in HCM City on the occasion of Vietnamese Family Day on June 28.

Bình Thuận Province is seeking to improve its ranking in the Provincial Competitiveness Index this year.

Upon being granted an e-visa, a foreigner can enter and exit an unlimited number of times within 90 days, without having to go through procedures for obtaining a new visa.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Kiên Giang plans to add at least additional three new-style rural communes and 14 advanced new-style rural communes this year.

A strategic cooperation agreement on June 23 was signed between HCM City-based Central Military Hospital 175 and An Phú International Hospital to strengthen well-coordinated patient referrals and provide treatment instructions to protect the lives of patients in a timely manner.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tiền Giang is expanding aquaculture in coastal areas.

The Việt Nam Coast Guard apprised some 800 students, Youth Union members and others in the southern province of Đồng Nai about drug prevention laws, drug-related crimes at sea and the country’s sovereignty over its sea and islands at an event organised to mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, June 26.

Technical problems at some thermopower plants have been fixed, allowing them to resume their operations.

The victims have been identified as a 29-year-old woman, her son and nephew.

The RoK President talked to students at the Faculty of Korean Language and Culture of the University of Languages and International Studies under the Việt Nam National University – Hà Nội.

The State Agency for Technology Innovation (SATI) under the Ministry of Science and Technology on June 22 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on strategic cooperation in advanced technology development with the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT).

Hảng A Xà, a Mông man, in Sin Suối Hồ village of Phong Thổ District, is a 48-year-old pastor of the Northern Việt Nam Evangelical Church.