The programme has also fostered creative and innovative thinking, conveying traditional cultural values and the soul of the nation in each product, and contributing to promoting rural economic development in the direction of "multi-value integration", Sơn said at the National Conference of Coordinating Offices for New Rural Development at all levels held in Hà Nội on Thursday by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

One of the core contents of the planning is the urban space development plan, creating a breakthrough in the development of the capital city.

Deliberate evasion of social insurance contributions should be legally prosecuted, as administrative penalties or criminal prosecution are stipulated by law.

There are currently 1,760 active inspectors and 277 inspection centres across the country.

The Singapore Management University opened a representative office in HCM City on April 25.

The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) held its annual 2023 Press Award ceremony at its Hanoi headquarters on April 25.

The HCM City People’s Court on Thursday sentenced Trần Quí Thanh, 71, chairman of prominent beverage manufacturer Tân Hiệp Phát, to eight years in prison for “abuse of trust to appropriate assets.”

As part of a programme on promoting Vietnamese localities in the US, Việt Nam’s Permanent Mission to the UN had a meeting with a delegation of the Party Committees of six provinces, namely Gia Lai, Hà Nam, Hà Tĩnh, Hòa Bình, Thừa Thiên - Huế, and Yên Bái, on April 22.

The 38 award-winning works were selected from the nearly 620 entries from more than 50 press agencies across the country.

A series of activities will be held in the northern province of Ninh Binh on the occasion of the five-day holiday of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day (April 30) and May Day (May 1) from April 27 to May 1.

The event brings together security council secretaries, national security advisors and assistants, deputy prime ministers, and heads of law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies of 106 countries and territories, along with representatives of 10 international organisations.

A raft of measures to deal with illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is included in the Government’s freshly issued action programme.

The ABAII aims to train and universalise Blockchain technology and AI for 1 million people.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has asked Việt Nam's airlines to consider increasing the number of flights from Hà Nội and HCM City to localities on April 27, and from localities back to Hà Nội and HCM City on May 1 to meet the demand for air transportation during the April 30 - May 1 holidays.

There are still 1,087 potential points of risk for railway traffic accidents along the North-South railway route, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Transport.

On World Malaria Day (April 25), the Việt Nam Government Portal had talks with Head of the National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology (NIMPE) Hoàng Đình Cảnh on the country's goal of eliminating malaria by 2030.

Long An Province is increasing the use of high-tech agriculture to improve production efficiency.

After more than two years, the programme has been held at 40 schools in the province reaching more than 19,000 students. It teaches students how to prevent and combat drowning, ways to rescue victims while ensuring personal safety, and basic first aid skills.

Thanks to the decisive direction of the Government and Prime Minister, and the active participation of ministries, branches and localities, the traffic safety situation in the first quarter was basically controlled, he said in yesterday’s committee meeting reviewing traffic safety in the first quarter of 2024.

The hailstones measured 2-3cm, some as large as hen's eggs.