Việt Nam News

The Việt Nam National University-HCM City (VNU-HCM) targets to be among the leading higher education institutions in Asia.

Trà Vinh Province aims to become one of the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta’s key marine economic hubs.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính said the meeting aimed to review the COVID-19 prevention and control performance and set out tasks to control the pandemic and other infectious diseases in the New Year holidays to “not leave anyone behind”.

Several electric substation boxes around HCM City centre have been given a fancy make-over with electric display panels. Old substations are frequently subjected to rust and graffiti, so this new initiative is part of the city's effort to give itself a more modern look

Vũ Hồng Nam, a former official of the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan, has also been arrested for the same charge.

Trash is a resource that can bring huge economic benefits if it is collected, sorted, and recycled properly, but in Vietnam, 80 per cent of trash is buried in landfills, resulting in pollution and a waste of resources. Each year, the country loses around US$33 billion by not recycling waste. Therefore, more efforts are needed to avoid wasting this resource.

The coach brings poor people to their hometown for free, departing from HCM City to central provinces such as Khánh Hòa, Phú Yên, Bình Định, Quảng Trị and Quảng Bình.

New teaching methods also create more space for students to raise their voices.

The south-central province of Bình Thuận has established a number of co-operatives as it seeks to improve production efficiency.

International flights during the upcoming lunar new year (Tết) holiday season should prosper, an official from the Ministry of Transport said.

The north and northern central regions are forecast to see more strong cold spells in the first two months of 2023, which will cause temperatures to plunge, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

The Bến Thành – Suối Tiên Metro line 1 began its trial run yesterday. The test took place on the elevated section of the subway line, which is nearly 9km long and runs from Suối Tiên to Bình Thái Station in Thủ Đức City. After all trial runs have been successfully completed, the line will open to the public.

The information was discussed in a seminar titled "Thematic discussion: Innovation in the public sector" on Thursday in Hà Nội. The seminar was organised by the National Innovation Center (NIC), the Ministry of Planning and Investment,

Việt Nam has made efforts to better enforce and secure civil and political rights of its people.

HCM City will earmark more than VNĐ1 trillion (US$42 million) to present gifts and provide various kinds of support to poor people, orphans, and families during the upcoming Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

Enterprises have managed to give Tết (Lunar New Year) bonuses equal to at least one month salary to employees amid a sharp drop in orders for exports and suspension of production, the HCM City Labour Federation said.

40 per cent of the Mekong Delta will disappear by 2100 due to a lack of sediment, and overexploitation of sand is to blame.

The State should have specific policies to encourage learners and to attract good students to study in agriculture, forestry and fishery majors, said professor Trần Đức Viên.