Vallet scholarships were awarded to 272 outstanding students from universities, colleges and high schools from the central provinces of Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Ha Tinh at a ceremony on August 27.
The central city of Da Nang hosts the central and north-central region qualifiers for the annual Golden Spoon Awards on August 4-5 at the Golden Phoenix Conference Centre.
The central city of Da Nang will face a shortage of clean water as the salinity of water produced by the Cau Do water plant has reached an alarming 13.568mg per litre.
The central city of Da Nang has introduced a fishery logistics co-operative, the second one since last year, to boost the offshore fishing trade in the city and central region.
Nearly 3,000 impoverished households across central region have built
flood-resistant homes with assistance from a government project, as
heard during a workshop on June 19.
Vietnam’s central region is likely to endure longer heat waves than
average, worsening its prolonged drought, said the National Centre for
Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF).
The north central region targets covering at least 95 percent of
near-poor local citizens with health insurance by the end of 2015, with
98 percent protected the following year.
Fourteen provinces and a city located in the central region, the most
vulnerable area to this year’s El Nino - the warm phase of a seasonal
cycle of fluctuating temperatures and rainfall – have launched intensive
programmes on forest fire prevention.
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