Minister of Transport Nguyễn Văn Thắng said in the coming time Việt Nam should increase the proportion of maritime and inland waterway transport to at least 50 per cent in order to reduce logistics costs and road accidents.

As one of the most populous cities in the country with a population of about 10 million people, the capital city of Hanoi has faced a lot of social issues relating to security and order, social evils and employment.

The PM stressed this is a crucial national and key project with an important role in national energy security, especially for the northern region.

Through the project, the irrigation system in four districts of Đô Lương, Diễn Châu, Yên Thành and Quỳnh Lưu under the project’s component 1 has been upgraded, accommodating the total irrigation area of 28,801 ha, supplying water for domestic, livestock, industry and serving other purposes.

This decree applies to entities and individuals involved in building, maintaining, managing, operating and using databases related to domestic violence prevention and intervention.

Enforcement agencies and the business community highly appreciated the changes brought about by the decree and hoped that it would set a good precedent for reforms in other areas of State management.

The complex has leased land without proper permission, disregarding public finance principles and leasing at below-market rates, resulting in significant losses of state funds.

In some areas, the high-risk group exhibits extremely high tuberculosis rates, reaching 400 to 500 cases per 100,000 people.

As part of efforts to increase the attractiveness of destinations in Ho Chi Minh City, many travel businesses have brought regional specialties to local tourist destinations to serve visitors.

Keppel Corporation and Tien Phong newspaper on March 22 held a ceremony to hand over a water filtration system to people in Tan Thuy commune, Ba Tri district, the southern province of Ben Tre.

The Ho Chi Minh City Committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front (VFF) mobilised over 300 billion VND (12.1 million USD) last year to support the poor, residents, officers, soldiers, and workers in border, sea and island areas across the country.

The administration pledged to put the project into commercial operation in 2024.

My Son Sanctuary - a UNESCO-recognised World Cultural Heritage Site in the central province of Quang Nam - welcomed an estimated 123,000 visitors, including 110,000 foreigners, in the first quarter of this year, over 50% higher than that of the same period last year.

The southern region, including HCM City, have recorded the highest temperatures since the beginning of the year’s hot season, with a record temperature of nearly 41 degrees Celsius on Wednesday (March 20).

Vietnamese fishing vessels’ infringements of foreign waters have gradually decreased over the past years, which is the clearest demonstration of the border guard and other forces’ moves to fight illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, an official has said.

The entire progress of the Điện Biên Phủ Campaign lasting 56 days and nights, from March 13, 1954 to May 7, 1954, has been represented in the form of 56 diary entries.

Việt Nam is currently ranked 11th among 30 countries worldwide with the highest burden of TB and multidrug-resistant TB.

A special website supplying information about the historical military campaign Dien Bien Phu that led to the world-shaking victory of the Vietnamese army over French colonial forces in 1954 has been launched by Nhan Dan (The People) newspaper.

Some 400,000 workers in Đồng Nai are in need of social houses while the figure by 2025 is 450,000.

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Hoàng Hiệp underscored irrigation's pivotal role as a fundamental national infrastructure.