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Officials told to submit airport plan
Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has urged the ministries of Transport and Defence to finalise a plan to expand Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City and report to the Government next week. The Airport Design and Construction Consultancy One Member Ltd Company ...
Eyeing flying fish on the Ô Loan Lagoon
Ô Loan Lagoon has much more to offer tourists than its well-known delicious seafood and wonderful scenes at sunrise and sunset. It has another “specialty”: the generosity of its people. By Bạch Liên, the hotel receptionist in Tuy Hòa City of Phú Yên Province told me ...
City airport granted expansion land
The Ministry of National Defence on February 21 handed over 21 hectares of land to the Ministry of Transport to expand the overloaded Tân Sơn Nhất airport, the largest airport in HCM City. The signing ceremony was attended by Senior Lieutenant General Trần Đơn, deputy minister of ...
Đà Nẵng, Japan to co-operate in seafood production, sewage treatment
The central city of Da nang, in co-operation with the Japanese International Co-operation Agency, will start building a seafood value chain in the city with a fund of 60 million Japanese yen (around VNĐ11 billion or US$528,000). The city’s secretariat said the project, which will ...
Unseasonable rains lead to rise in rainy season diseases
Unseasonable weather in southwestern provinces during the dry season has led to an increase in cases of diarrhoea, dengue fever, and hand, foot and mouth disease, all of which usually occur during the rainy season, according to health experts. The Cần Thơ Pediatric Hospital in ...
Hà Tĩnh denies Formosa pollution link
Authorities in central Hà Tĩnh Province denied the connection between Formosa’s waste water discharge and the reddish streak appeared on water edge near the province’s Sơn Dương wharf. A joint force between local authorities and the Institute of Environmental Technology yesterday afternoon announced their testing ...
Automakers sense a sea change, move to green cars
With demand for environmentally friendly cars increasing in Việt Nam, local automakers and traders are going green to win market share. Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Heavy Industry Department Trương Thanh Hoài said the Government and the ministry encouraged automakers and traders ...
Endangered bull killed in park in Central Highlands
A seven-year-old male Bos Gaurus bull, an endangered species listed in Group IB in Việt Nam’s Red Book, was killed in a protected area in Chư Mom Ray National Park last Friday. Đào Xuân Thủy, deputy director of the park’s management board, said the bull, ...
Healthcare of older people a growing concern
Like many other countries in the region, Việt Nam faces the question of how to care for its ageing citizens, most essentially when it comes to providing health care. The issue was the focus of the workshop on “Health security of older persons: a survey ...
South steps up preventive measures against dengue fever, Zika virus
Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Thanh Long on February 16 urged agencies and local authorities in the southern region to take preventive measures against outbreaks of dengue and Zika virus infections. “The World Health Organisation has issued a warning that Việt Nam is inside the ‘belt’ ...
