The government has urged the Ministry of National Defence and other agencies to approve the adjustment plan for the combined civilian and military Phan Thiết Airport in Bình Thuận Province.  

The Mekong Delta province of Kiên Giang has instructed inspection teams to impose severe fines on violators of laws on construction, land subdivision, and illegal deforestation, according to Phạm Vũ Hồng, chairman of the province’s People’s Committee.  

The ASEAN Car Business Career Company of Japan plans to recruit more than 220 automobile engineering students from Đà Nẵng-based Đông Á College to work in the Japanese car industry later this year.

The Power Construction No1 Joint Stock Company inaugurated two hydro power plants – Bảo Lâm 3 and Bảo Lâm 3A – in the northern province of Cao Bằng on Saturday.

An overpass at District 2’s Mỹ Thuỷ intersection on June 29 opened to traffic, relieving traffic congestion in the area and at Cát Lái port.  

Local-level health care facilities are expected to increase their capacity and provide better services to help reduce pressure at central hospitals by “gaining public trust”, said Nguyễn Nam Liên, director of the Planning and Finance Department under the Ministry of Health (MoH), at the ministry’s press conference yesterday.

Though new media platforms such as social media have become increasingly popular, mainstream media remains the major channel to promote the growing business community in Việt Nam, speakers said at a forum held on June 29 in HCM City.

More than 300 overseas Vietnamese businesspeople from 25 countries and territories met in HCM City yesterday to take part in the Business Association of Overseas Vietnamese’s (BAOOV) third congress.

A Nùng ethnic man born with brittle bones has defied physical limitations to develop his own business in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang.

The HCM City People’s Committee plans to create a special mechanism for payment of land compensation and resettlement to implement a city Party Committee directive that calls for strengthening the role and efficiency of authorities in these tasks.  

Farmers in the south-central province of Ninh Thuận are planting more rice, corn, sugarcane and other crops on large-scale fields to raise incomes.

Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City has brought the outbreak of swine flu (A/H1N1) under control, quarantining and treating those who tested positive and placing those suspected of being infected under close supervision.

A blaze at a waste dump in Ngọc Sơn Commune, Quỳnh Lưu District, left more than 30 residents hospitalised over the past two days due to smoke inhalation.

Tunnel-boring machines on June 29 completed the drilling of the second tunnel of the Metro Line No.1 connecting HCM City’s Bến Thành Terminal in District 1 with Suối Tiên Terminal in District 9 after more than five months of construction, according to the HCM City Management Authority for Urban Railways.  

A blaze at a waste dump in Ngọc Sơn Commune, Quỳnh Lưu District, left more than 30 residents hospitalised over the past two days due to smoke inhalation.

The Ministry of Transport has asked the Airport Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) to evaluate the feasibility of building a transit station in District 1 to connect to Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City.

Electricity supply was resumed on Cô Tô island in northern QuảngNinh Province on Friday after the power line was struck by lightning earlier this month.

The People’s Court of central Bình Định Province on Thursday delayed the first-instance trial in a large-scale deforestation case in An Lão District last year.

Nearly 4,000 households in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai’s Krông Pa District have been using contaminated water.

Households in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông have complained that explosions at a nearby hydropower plant construction site may be causing damage to their homes.