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Transport ministry cancelled international bidding for North-South Expressway, seeks bids from domestic investors
The transport ministry announced on Monday they would cancel open international bidding for eight projects of the North-South expressway, in favour of homegrown investors.The decision was made on the consensus reached after consulting relevant agencies, transport ministry said in an announcement sent to the media, adding ...
Mekong Delta declares urgent erosion situation
A number of provinces in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta facing serious erosion along rivers and coastal areas are taking measures to protect the land and people in the area. The provinces are Long An, the two upstream provinces of An Giang and Đồng Tháp, and the coastal provinces of Bến Tre, ...
Vietnam shares experience in primary healthcare at UN meeting
About 81% of patients questioned said they are satisfied with medical services in Vietnam, Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien cited an independent survey while delivering a speech at a United Nations meeting on September 23. The meeting, themed “Universal Health Coverage: Moving Together to ...
Social policy credit proves useful for poverty reduction: meeting
Social policy credit has reached all the communal-level localities nationwide, greatly helping with efforts towards sustainable poverty reduction, heard a teleconference in Hanoi on September 23.According to General Director of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) Duong Quyet Thang, social policy credit, part of ...
Mekong Delta agriculture adapts to climate change
The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta has restructured agriculture towards climate-change adaptation and market demand by establishing specialised farming areas for its key agricultural products, and by growing other crops on ineffective rice fields or rotating rice with other crops on the same field. To develop the ...
Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition launched
The Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition (VIET) was officially launched in Hanoi on September 19. Established in late 2018, the VIET works as an independent organisation studying activities related to the transition of the national energy system. Its main activity is hosting exchanges between scientists and policymakers in energy ...
eMpowering Youths Across ASEAN (EYAA): Calls for applications
The eMpowering Youths Across ASEAN (EYAA) is a partnership programme between Maybank Foundation and ASEAN Foundation that aims to alleviate poverty and improve the social and economic well-being of ASEAN communities through youth volunteerism and social innovation.Each accepted participant will be grouped with 9 other ...
First 5G network broadcasts in Vietnam
Telecom giant Viettel broadcast its first 5G network Saturday from its network of 5G base stations in Ho Chi Minh City. The 10 stations will be used by Viettel, the nation’s largest telecom firm, to comprehensively check and assess its 5G service before launching it commercially ...
Dat Nguyen
Vietnam speeds up digital conversion race
Vietnam has made concrete steps to seize opportunities from digital conversion, which has become the main development trend around the world thanks to great advantages in technologies and creativity.Over the past few years, Vietnamese living in big cities have gradually formed an online shopping habit. A ...
Vietnam Reform and Development Forum held in Hanoi
The reform of market economy institutions was one of the issues discussed at the Vietnam Reform and Development Forum (VRDF) held in Hanoi on September 19 with the attendance of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.The VRDF this year was organized earlier than in previous years, ...
Ngoc Lan
