The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee on December 30 announced a decision to set up the city’s Department of Food Safety – the first of its kind in Vietnam. Food safety officials examine food at a restaurant. (Photo: VNA) Directly under the municipal People's Committee, the department has the function of advising and assisting the committee in...

Determining that mass mobilization work plays an important role in consolidating the relationship between the Party, government and people, strengthening the great solidarity of the entire people, the Vietnam Fatherland Front (Fatherland Front) Committee at all provincial levels has promoted the emulation movement " "Good mass mobilization" associated with movements and activities and achieved many positive results. Officials of...

The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha Central Committee and the National Traffic Safety Committee held a requiem for victims of traffic accidents in Vietnam at Long Hung pagoda in Hanoi on December 29. Requiem held for traffic accident victims (Photo: Long Hung pagoda) The event aims to sound an alarm in the whole society on traffic accidents in the country, thus...

According to the assessment of the Department of Transport, from the beginning of December 2023 to now, the number of passengers traveling in the area has begun to increase. Therefore, at this time, the Department of Transport and transport units in the area have synchronously implemented many solutions to ensure people's travel needs. An inspector of the Department of...

Hanoi has maintained its leading position in many patriotic emulation movements, especially the programme on new-style rural area building. All communes and districts in Hanoi have been recognised as new rural areas so far. (Photo: VNA) All communes and districts in the city have been recognised as new rural areas so far. The number of advanced new rural communes...

The National Office for Poverty Reduction has reported a multidimensional poverty rate of 2.93% at the end of 2023, indicating a 1.1 percentage point decrease. At a farm in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai (Photo: VNA) Poverty rate in impoverished districts went down by 5.62 percentage points to approximately 33% and that in ethnic minority areas...

President Vo Van Thuong on December 28 sent messages of longevity celebrations to 1,025 citizens aged from 100 years old and above, who live in 10 provinces and cities across the country namely An Giang, Vinh Long, Bac Ninh, Quang Ngai, Ha Giang, Bac Giang, Dien Bien, Dak Nong, Tra Vinh and Phu Yen. Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) President...

The authorities of the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang and China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region jointly organised a ceremony on December 28 to announce the upgrade of the pair of Tra Linh (Vietnam)-Longbang (China) border gates into international ones. Vietnamese and Chinese delegates press the buttons to mark the start of customs clearance at the pair of...

The Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange (VAVA) has surmounted many difficulties to fulfill its tasks over the last five years, deserving its status as the representative of the rights and legitimate interests of AO victims, said VAVA Chairman Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Rinh. AO/dioxin victims in Bac Lieu province receive care and assistance. (Photo: VNA) The...

On the evening of December 26, the Committee for Ethnic Minorities chaired and coordinated with the Ministry of Education and Training and the Central Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union to organize a Commendation Ceremony for outstanding ethnic minority students and youth in 2023. Chu Van An High School for the Gifted had 4 excellent students honored at the...