Cargill Cares Council has rebuilt a school in the mountainous commune of Huc in central Quang Tri province’s Huong Hoa district, its 88th school in Vietnam under its rural school-building programme.
The High-Level People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City on August 15 pronounced sentences to former leaders of Navibank, known as National Citizen Bank, on the charge of “intentionally violating State regulations on economic mismanagement, causing serious consequences.”
The 32nd La Vang Pilgrimage Festival took place in Hai Lang district in the central province of Quang Tri on August 14 and 15.
The central coastal province of Quang Tri has been adopting a number of preferential policies to attract investment in high-tech agriculture for the 2018-2021 period.
The central city of Da Nang plans to build a logistics complex to position itself as an international-standard logistics centre for Vietnam, ASEAN and the Asia Pacific region by 2030.
Representatives from the Department of External Affairs of localities nationwide have shared their experience in calling for resources from foreign non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to serve local socio-economic development.
The Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) held a get-together to on August 8 to mark the 65th anniversary of Cuba’s National Rebellion Day (July 26, 1953 – 2018).
Authorities in the central province of Quang Tri have coordinated with local organisations to open free swimming courses for local children in the hope of minimizing child drowning, especially in rural and remote areas.
Competent forces in central Quang Tri province’s Huong Hoa district have deactivated more than 460 shells, according to the provincial mobile bomb and mine clearance team under PeaceTrees Vietnam.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc lauded bomb and mine consequence recovery efforts over the past years while chairing a meeting of the Steering Committee 701 in Hanoi on August 7.
Electricity supply from Vietnam has facilitated economic development in Laos and improved living standards of villagers in border districts, said Vilaphorn, assistant to Director of the Electricity Corporation of Laos (Electricite Du Laos - EDL) on August 7.
An array of key housing projects have been completed in the first months of 2018 to meet increasing demands of policy beneficiaries, poor households and low-income earners, according to the Ministry of Construction.
Separate lanes have been opened for vehicles travelling through Lao Bao – Dansavanh border crossing that connects the central province of Quang Tri and Laos’ Savannakhet province as long queues of vehicles have remained there for days.
As many as 1,000 scholarships and 3,000 gifts will be presented to poor children in areas with extreme natural conditions or suffered from natural disaster and flood of seven central localities.
There is substantial room for Vietnam and Singapore to further develop their strategic partnership, according to Vietnamese Ambassador to Singapore Tao Thi Thanh Huong.
Up to 13 people were killed and four others were severely injured in a traffic accident in the central province of Quang Nam on the early morning of July 30.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc offered incense to martyrs at Son Tay cemetery in Son Tay town of Hanoi on July 26 to mark the 71st anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27).
Incense offering and candle lighting have been held across Vietnam to commemorate fallen soldiers on the occasion of the 71st Vietnam War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27, 1947).
