NA approves 2019 State budget projection
The 12th National Assembly approved the State budget projection for 2019, with an approval rate of 86.19, during its ongoing sixth session in Hanoi on November 9.
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The 12th National Assembly approved the State budget projection for 2019, with an approval rate of 86.19, during its ongoing sixth session in Hanoi on November 9.
According to a report from the Vietnam Social Security (VSS), as of October 31, 2018, the number of health insurance card holders in the country reached 82.33 million or 87.62 percent of the population.
In recent years, local people in Nam Mau commune, of Ba Be district in the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan have taken advantage of community-based tourism to improve their livelihoods.
The 10th Culture, Sports and Tourism Festival for ethnic minority groups will take place in the northern province of Vinh Phuc from November 2-4.
The border guard force in the central province of Ha Tinh and authorized forces on October 25 arrested two men who were smuggling 32 kilogrammes of methamphetamine and ten bricks of heroin from Laos to Vietnam.
More than 9,100 infrastructure projects have been built and nearly 3,300 others have been maintained in some of the countries most disadvantaged communes over the past three years thanks to Programme 135.
For years, farmers in the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan have escaped from poverty by growing tangerine trees.
Police in Bach Thong district, the northern province of Bac Kan, on October 16 arrested three men who smuggled 198 bricks of heroin from Laos into Vietnam. The drug was believed to be forwarded to China.
The National Target Programme on New-style Rural Area Building for 2018 has achieved its set targets three months earlier than planned, said Nguyen Minh Tien, head of the programme’s Central Coordination Office.
Na Hang – Lam Binh Nature Reserve in the northern province of Tuyen Quang was honoured with a certificate to recognize it as a national tourist site at a ceremony in Na Hang district on October 14.
The Vietnamese Goods Fair kicked off in Hanoi on September 22, featuring 300 stalls by 200 firms from Hanoi, Bac Kan, Tuyen Quang, Quang Tri, Hung Yen and Bac Giang.
Disadvantaged students in 10 northern mountainous localities received “Vietnamese Seeds Fund” scholarships from Nhan dan (People’s) Newspaper on September 19.
Northern and north-central localities have taken measures to prepare themselves for super typhoon Mangkhut, which is forecast to bring heavy rains and whirlwind to the regions on September 17-18.
Total projected length of Vietnam’s expressway system by 2030 is set to stretch from the initial 6,400 km to more than 7,000km, as the Ministry of Transport is mulling adding several routes.
Heavy downpours and floods in northern mountainous and Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces over the past days have wreaked havoc.
Invitations are now open for a photography competition among both Vietnamese and foreigners to promote primary healthcare for people in Vietnam.
Vietnam has expanded health insurance coverage among HIV patients taking ARV treatment to 83.4 percent at present from 50 percent in 2016, helping ensure that they can maintain long-term treatment.
Floods and landslides in Phong Tho district of the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau left six dead, six missing and three others injured, according to the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.
