Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has signed a decision to form a national steering committee on the prevention and control of African Swine Fever (ASF), which is headed by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
The National Steering Committee for International Integration will hold a meeting in the first half of April to review its performance since its inception five years ago.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Washington DC on March presented a documentary on the search of remains of US naval officer James B. Mills, who died during the war in Vietnam, to his sister Ann Mills-Griffiths.
More than 700 young people in the northern province of Hung Yen took part in a blood donation programme on March 14, part of March’s Youth Month activities.
Vietnam collected 1.336 million blood units in 2018, of which 98.3 percent were donated by volunteer donors who account for only 1.68 percent of the nation’s population, heard a conference held by the National Steering Committee for Voluntary Blood Donation in Hanoi on March 12.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue, who is also Chairman of the National Steering Committee on the National One-Stop Shop (OSS) Mechanism, the ASEAN One-Stop Shop Mechanism and Trade Facilitation (Committee 189), chaired a conference in Hanoi on February 19 to review the implementation of the tasks by the committee in 2018 and discuss its operation orientations for 2019.
Blood reserves at the National Blood Centre under the Central Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion will only be enough to cover the next three days, warned deputy director of the institute Pham Tuan Duong.
A reaction plan to the African swine fever (ASF) is being developed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development after pigs were found infected with the disease in neighbouring countries.
The market surveillance force has been asked to press on with concrete solutions to improve the fight against smuggling, trade fraud, counterfeits, and food safety violations which are predicted to remain complex issues in the year ahead.
Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan recognized the outstanding performance of Vietcombank in 2018 and wished the bank more success in the Year of the Pig during her visit to the bank on February 11.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue required ministries, sectors and localities to control the consumer price index (CPI) between 3.3-3.9 percent in 2019 while chairing a conference of the National Steering Committee on Price Management in Hanoi on January 17.
There are now nearly 70 places for blood donation throughout the country in anticipation of the coming lunar New Year, the longest festival in Vietnam, organizers of the drive announced at a ceremony in Hanoi on January 6.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam laid out tasks for the Office of the National Steering Committee for Search and Repatriation of Remains of Fallen Soldiers during 2019-2020 at a recent teleconference in Hanoi.
Lower water levels in reservoirs and barren farmland can be easily seen in many parts of the south-central and Central Highlands region even though it is the rainy season.
The National Steering Committee on the Prevention and Control of Smuggling, Trade Fraud and Counterfeit Goods (National Steering Committee 389) has launched a peak-season anti-smuggling, commercial fraud and counterfeit goods campaign ahead of the upcoming lunar New Year (Tet) festival.
As many as 2,000 people were killed by post-war landmines between 2010 and 2014, while an estimated 6.1 million hectares accounting for more than 21 percent of Vietnam’s land remains contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO).
Capitalising on the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s advantages and applying information and technology (IT) are significant to running a streamlined and high-quality national census in 2019, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has said.
Forty two percent of surveyed companies reported that they countered difficulties in applying for business licences in Vietnam, said General Secretary of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) Nguyen Quang Vinh.
