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A total of 1,119 tonnes of fish raised in cages along the Cai Vung River died from 3 to 9 February, according to the latest statistics released by the An Giang and Dong Thap provinces’ agricultural sector on 15 February. The Cai Vung River is the ...

The northern province of Lao Cai is concentrating on developing local tourist attractions in order to host the National Tourism Year in 2017. Ha Van Thang, Director of the Lao Cai Culture, Sports and Tourism Department, said the province will create a series of local tourism ...

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has issued a decision regarding the mechanisms and policies needed to implement the strategy for Vietnam’s automobile industry development through 2025, with a vision toward 2035. The measures will also cover the master plan for Vietnam’s automobile industry development through ...

Seventy per cent of enterprises with high energy needs and emissions and 50 per cent of industrial production establishments will apply clean and energy-saving technologies by 2020. This is the agenda of a newly approved national action programme on sustainable production and consumption for the period ...

Vietnamese products are facing fierce competition from Thailand imports in the local market as Thai companies increasingly expand their presence in the country. A report from the General Department of Customs (GDC) showed that exports from Thailand reached US$7.5 billion in the first 11 months of ...

Sixty-two scholarships were awarded on 15 February to children of Vietnamese expats living in Laos who wish to study in Vietnam, taking the total number of such grants this year to a record 92, according to newswire VietnamPlus. The scholarships are jointly sponsored by the Vietnamese Embassy ...

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has approved the education and training ministry’s plan to upgrade the website tiengvietonline.com.vn, meant for teaching of the mother tongue to the Vietnamese disapora. Dam said the upgrade work would meet the increasing demand for learning of the mother tongue ...

Vietnam’s Prime Minister has approved the Government’s overall programme to practice thrift and avoid wasteful expenditure in 2016. The programme is one of the key tasks in 2016, the first year in which the resolution of the 12th National Party Congress and the socio-economic development plan for ...

The Government has approved a plan to help Vietnamese businesses directly participate in foreign distribution networks through 2020 to help Vietnamese goods penetrate international markets, a senior Government official said. The project aims to promote exports by ensuring that Vietnamese products are directly sold into major ...

After several years of sputtering, Hanoi’s notorious elevated rail project now has a new finish date with the first train scheduled to run on 31 Decembe.   The Railway Project Management Unit (PMU), the investor, and the main contractor China Railway Sixth Group Co. Ltd on 13 February signed ...