The World Bank-funded project “Vietnam Sustainable Agriculture Transformation” (VnSAT) has quality over quantity in farming since it started two years ago.

VOV.VN - Microsoft announced today (June 16) that it would introduce several innovative programs to recruit and train computer and software professionals for the Ho Chi Minh City workforce, reported the Vietnam News Agency.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has made a significant achievement in the Global Innovation Index 2017 (GII), ranking 47th out of 127 economies around the globe and 9th in Asia, leading the group of middle and lower-income economies. 

A project on sustainable forests, jointly implemented by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), has officially launched.

Experts gathered at a workshop in Hanoi on June 15 to discuss activities to adapt to climate change in the agricultural sector to implement the Paris Agreement.

The Ministry of Health has urged people to take actions to prevent dengue fever amid increasing infections nationwide.

Ambassador of Israel to Vietnam Meirav Eilon Shahar has stated that Israel, as a start-up nation, is willing to share experience as well as projects in start-up with Vietnam.

It is golden time for transfering tradition television to internet television.

Police in Perth in western Australia have arrested four Vietnamese nationals and frozen bank accounts containing more than US$760,000 as part of an investigation into a cannabis-growing syndicate.

A project on sustainable forests, jointly implemented by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), has officially launched.

The Ministry of Health has urged people to take actions to prevent dengue fever amid increasing infections nationwide.

The People’s Court of northern Phu Tho province on June 15 sentenced three men to death and another to life in jail for trafficking 300 heroin bricks in the province’s largest-ever narcotics case in terms of drug quantity.

A spike in electricity usage as a result of the record heat wave earlier this month across the northern region, especially Hanoi, will leave most residents high electricity bills.

Many businesses have refused to join a clean production and energy efficiency project because they don’t find attractive enough incentives, experts said at a conference on June 15.

Doctors from the US and Italy have provided free genital regeneration operations for 230 Vietnamese children, and given free consultation and check-ups to 800 other patients since August 2011 under a programme entitled “Thien Nhan and Friends”

The BarCamp Mekong 2017, the first event of its kind in the Mekong Delta region, will be held in Can Tho city on June 18, expected to draw at least 30 speakers and 500 listeners.

HCM City expects to launch the first river bus route as soon as early July, connecting the Bach Dang Wharf in District 1 with Thu Duc District, according to the municipal Department of Transport.

Given increasing incidences of drowning, the Hanoi Red Cross Society has opened a free swimming class for children in suburban districts to equip them with skills to prevent drowning.

Authorities in the southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City have issued an ultimatum, ordering all its districts to submit plans to the People’s Committee on getting rid of unplanned markets by July.

By June 15, grasshoppers have damaged 500 hectares of crops in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang, putting local farmers at risk of having a bad harvest.

The Hanoi Party Committee has promulgated a resolution to enhance environmental protection to 2020 and the following years.

A new training programme to improve the quality of healthcare employees will be set up by the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training and Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

The Vietnam Red Cross Society on June 14 signed a three-year agreement with FrieslandCampina Vietnam for a communication project on nutrition education and physical strength development in children.

Four universities in Vietnam have been evaluated and accredited for meeting international standards by the High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) in France.

The APEC High-Level Policy Dialogue on Sustainable Tourism will be held on June 19 in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh as part of the APEC Year 2017 in Vietnam.

This year’s Huong Pagoda Festival in the suburban area of Hanoi welcomed approximately 1.4 million tourists, up 6,000 from the same period last year and including about 7,800 foreign visitors, according to the People’s Committee of My Duc district.

Vietnam attaches significance to green growth, safe labour migration and sustainable development, contributing to achieving economic development sustainable employment goals. 

VOV.VN - Any nation that does not adequately address the negative consequences that flow from climate change will condemn future generations of its citizens to untold suffering, says the United Nations Development Program.

A delegation from the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA) led by its Director Nguyen Xuan Thang visited France from June 12-14 to learn the country’s experience in managing the transparency of public organisations.

Over 500 students, including 350 Vietnamese, graduated from an international training course of Israel’s Ramat Negev Desert AgroResearch Centre (RNDARC) at a ceremony held on June 13.