Since the beginning of this year, Việt Nam has recorded approximately 40,000 cases of dengue fever, including eight fatalities. The outbreak is trending upward in many localities.
A Vietnamese student who won a bronze medal in the 2023 Genius Olympiad in June had his accolades rescinded after organisers found a blatant 86 per cent similarity between his submission and that of another student.
Many farmers in Bình Hà Village had to mortgage their cashew lands to black market creditors as debt payment and receive money to cover their living expenses. When the cashew harvesting season comes, these people have to work as hired labourers on their own land to earn money.
The Cửu Long (Mekong) delta province of Kiên Giang is banning the fishing of natural bivalve molluscs in its coastal waters for the rest of this year to protect their stocks.
The two new cities are poised to become science-technology and logistics centres of the region with total population of 4.45 million people by 2045.
With the project "Unburnt light ceramic materials from oyster shells and rice husks", a group of authors including Võ Nguyễn Thúy Hà, Phan Anh Quang and Lê Thị Thu Hà, who are students at Phú Bài High School in Hương Thủy Township of Thừa Thiên Huế Province, won First Prize for high school students at the 5th National Student Start-up Festival.
A recently approved National Assembly resolution that grants increased autonomy to HCM City would help address the numerous challenges it faces amid the financial crisis, a city official said.
Deputy PM Quang requested that plans and agenda must be carefully prepared before the upcoming working session with the European Commission's fourth inspection team, in order to remove the commission’s ‘yellow card’ warning against Vietnamese seafood exports by October 2023.
HCM City plans to focus on propagandising information to create a strong transformation, aiming to raise awareness and work toward a more robust approach to cybersecurity in State agencies, businesses and people’s day-to-day activities.
In June alone, economic sectors in the city employed more than 26,500 labourers and created nearly 12,000 new jobs, with most jobs in the areas of trade, services, and industrial production.
The investment is estimated at about VNĐ420 trillion (US$18 billion), mobilised from the State budget, non-budget capital and other legal capital sources.
Sand mining and the construction of hydropower dams that trap sediment from travelling downstream are primary factors contributing to rampant coastal and riverbank erosion in Việt Nam’s Mekong Delta region.
Many families in the Mekong Delta region are grappling with critical threats of rampant erosion that is caused by changes in rivers’ flow triggered by excessive sand mining and the construction of hydropower dams upstream that block sediment.
Việt Nam currently allows citizens of only 80 countries to apply for an e-visa, and applies visa exemption for international visitors from 24 countries, a shorter list than other countries in the region such as Thailand (76), Malaysia (156) and Singapore (162).
At present eight highway projects with a total length of more than 460km are being implemented in the Mekong Delta, with total investment of approximately VNĐ94.4 trillion (US$3.99 billion).
At 5.30 pm, a team of 30 medical professionals including specialists, resident doctors, and nurses begin their night shift. Bạch Mai Hospital has around 150 emergency beds, with 73 of them located in the Intensive Care Unit, always occupied by patients. Most of the patients are transferred here from other departments or lower-level hospitals in critical or life-threatening conditions. That's why the Intensive Care Unit at Bạch Mai Hospital is likened to the "last fortress," or the "final line of defense."
The event's aim is to introduce potentials, strengths, images, cooperation and investment promotions between Hà Nội and north-central provinces, especially Quảng Bình.
The delegation updated the EC side on Việt Nam's progress in implementing the EC’s recommendations made by its inspection team to Việt Nam in October 2022.
