The Ministry of Public Security’s General Department of Logistics-Engineering held a ceremony in Hanoi on February 9 to launch tasks to prepare for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Year 2017. 

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan has asked relevant agencies to speed up the ministry’s online public services, making all agriculture administrative procedures available online by the end of next month.

VOV.VN - Archdaily, a world's most popular architecture website, has showcased a working office of a multimedia company in Ho Chi Minh City on its website.

The Ministry of Health will release 1 million to 1.4 million of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in four wards in Nha Trang city, the central province of Khanh Hoa in an effort to reduce the number of incidences of dengue fever and Zika virus infections.

The Health Ministry has reported that HIV carriers in the country has numbered 231,000, with 87,000 having developed full-blown AIDS, and HIV infection in community has continuously been kept under 0.3%.

Vietnam set a target to increase its forest coverage to 41.45 percent to raise the timber export value to over 7.5 billion USD by 2020, Ha Cong Tuan, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has told the Government Portal.

Police of Ho Chi Minh City has smashed a ring  trafficking drugs from China to the southern city of Vietnam, seizing 14kg of methamphetamine and detaining six dealers involved.

The third Oriental Medicine Week will be held in District 5 of Ho Chi Minh City from February 23 to 26.

Water pumping stations in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provide more than 985,000 cubic metres daily to urban areas, meeting 89 percent of the need, the Ministry of Construction has said.

The Defence Ministry’s Military Hospital 175 handed over telemedicine equipment to the Cambodian Royal Army’s Hospital 179 on February 9.

VOV.VN - In the early morning hours of February 9, flames completely destroyed an agricultural products warehouse located at the Ea Yong Commune of the Krong Pak District in Dak Lak Province.

Construction of auxiliary markers along the Dak Nong-Mundulkiri section of the Vietnam-Cambodia border began on February 9.

Recent torrential rains in many Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces in what is the dry season have damaged crops, including fruit trees.

The Department of Construction in HCM City has encouraged companies at the Hiep Phuoc and Linh Trung Industrial Parks in Nha Be and Thu Duc districts to pilot construction of residential building clusters with 25-sq.m apartments priced at VND100 million (US$4,405) for workers.

Surin Governor Adthaporn Singhawichai has signed a memorandum of understanding with public health and livestock related agencies to launch a campaign against rabies. 

Tens of millions of Saigonese not only suffer from the effects of waste water, hazardous waste and emissions, but also from noise.

Leading telecom service providers Viettel, MobiFone and VinaPhone are scrambling to put up base transceiver stations and pilot 4G services to be ready to officially offer them this quarter.

The number of approved visas for Vietnamese students to study in New Zealand in the past 12 months rose by 15% compared to the same period last year, according to Education New Zealand (ENZ), New Zealand’s government agency for international education.

Hanoi’s Department of Health will deploy mobile food testing labs to deter unsafe food sold at restaurants and street vendors where spring festivals take place, Nguyen Khac Hien, director of the department, has said.

Ho Chi Minh City will put up more road signs written in English to serve foreign tourists, an official of the city’s Department of Transport has said.

Hanoi plans to conduct several activities to care for revolution contributors in the city ahead of the 70th War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day (July 27), including the upgrade and construction of nearly 7,300 houses. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project on developing domestic infrastructure in connection with the regional systems.

Supporting a sustainable mobility project in the southern Vietnamese province of An Giang is among the 2017 global agenda of Alstom Foundation, the body said on February 7.

The Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau has inspected Lat Phrao Intersection to inspect traffic conditions before expanding the construction zone for the green line BTS. 

Mekong Delta provinces, which just recovered from a historic drought a year ago, is bracing for more unfavorable weather.

Viettel, VinaPhone, and MobiFone are preparing for piloting their 4G services before the official launch in the first quarter of 2017, as ordered by the Minister of Information and Communications.

The National Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health under the Health Ministry has conducted a health examination on Vietnamese people who are highly exposed to lead.

The Hanoi information department has put off an online survey asking city-dwellers whether the city’s public loudspeaker system should be removed, saying alleged hackers had manipulated the results.

Doctors in HCM City have warned about the spread of contagious diseases especially chickenpox due to favourable weather conditions and parents’ negligence.

The Prime Minister has directed authorities to find the assets of suspects in corruption cases in order to prevent them from being hidden and to help in executing judgments against the accused.