(Source: VNA)
Lac Duong commune is a remote locality largely inhabited by the K’Ho ethnic minority in Lam Dong. The commune has 15 villages with more than 14,000 residents in 3,119 households and 8,799 registered voters. Given that residents live scattered along National Highway 27C and that the area’s mountainous terrain makes travel difficult, local authorities have prepared plans to organise the election smoothly.
Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City are intensifying measures to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by strengthening monitoring and traceability at local fishing ports.
According to Colonel Truong Ba Long, Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Vietnam Coast Guard Region 2 Command, the close integration of efforts to combat IUU fishing with routine patrol and control activities to safeguard maritime sovereignty, prevent smuggling and trade fraud, fight drug-related crimes, and conduct search and rescue operations constitutes a regular task of the unit.
Vietnamese women have long been an indispensable force in the country’s socio-economic development. Today, they are present across a wide spectrum of economic activities, from production, trade and small-scale services to innovative start-ups, collective economic development, the digital economy, green growth, the circular economy and financial inclusion.
The chairman of the municipal People’s Committee has directed that all events on the city’s the two main thoroughfares - Le Loi and Nguyen Hue - adhere strictly to the annual event schedule approved by local authorities.
The inspection revealed that passenger P.T.H. had concealed 10 pieces of the metal, weighing about 5 kg, inside her bra and underwear. Passenger V.T.M. hid five pieces totalking roughly 1.1 kg beneath underwear. Passenger N.V.L. concealed nine pieces amounting to around 3.5 kg, while passenger C.S.M.H. hid seven pieces weighing some 2.7 kg under underwear and on the wrist.
Under the plan, AI clusters will be developed under a model that combines centralised physical spaces with digital network linkages.
Minimum living standards for the general population, broken down by urban and rural areas, will be published annually starting in 2026 while from 2028, minimum living standards specifically for workers will also be announced each year.
Communications efforts have gone beyond visual campaigns, being integrated into village meetings, Party cell activities and mass organisations, helping voters better understand their rights and responsibilities.
Vietnam had 52.4 million employed people in 2025, an increase of 578,300 year-on-year, while the underemployment rate among working-age people fell to 1.65%. Average monthly income reached 8.4 million VND, up 8.9%.
Ho Chi Minh City will lease IT equipment to monitor fishing vessels lacking sufficient legal documentation or safety equipment, in an effort to strengthen management and prevent illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Through community gatherings, religious activities at local pagodas, household visits and hamlet meetings, monks, dignitaries, elders, hamlet Party cell secretaries and Party members have conducted bilingual communications in Vietnamese and Khmer, helping residents better understand legal provisions and avoid misinformation.
Priority is being given to key locations such as offices of Party and government agencies, armed forces units, and more than 5,000 sites serving voter meetings, polling, vote counting and election-related printing activities.
Nga Ba Giong is associated with heroic chapters of Vietnam’s revolutionary history. The site currently displays documents, artefacts and images relating to the 1940 Southern Uprising. It was also one of three execution grounds established by French colonialists in Hoc Mon in 1941.
After 30 years of coexistence, the acceptability of Vietnamese among the Czech public has increased, reaching 73% in June 2025 - comparable to the level observed mainly for foreigners from Western countries.
Ho Chi Minh City will offer free rides on Metro Line No.1 (Ben Thanh – Suoi Tien) and bus services to voters on March 15 to facilitate their travel on election day.
A new exhibition space introducing Vietnam’s World Documentary Heritage and outstanding national archival materials in Hanoi officially opened to the public on March 3.
Beyond supplying substantial volumes of blood for emergency care and treatment, the festival has established a structured, professional, safe and civilised model for mobilising donors, which has been widely adopted by other agencies and organisations.
During the first phase, from January 2026 to July 2027, authorities aim to address major backlogs by searching for and repatriating about 7,000 sets of remains, collecting samples from roughly 230,000 unidentified graves nationwide, conducting DNA analysis on approximately 18,000 samples, and establishing a genetic database of martyrs’ relatives.
Determined to have the EC’s “yellow card” warning lifted, Khanh Hoa has implemented drastic measures against IUU fishing in recent years.
