Ho Chi Minh City’s Transport Department on September 12 launched bus route 109 connecting Tan Son Nhat Airport and Sai Gon bus station. Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Buses on the new route, which will officially come into operation on September 13, will run from 5:45am to 23:45 pm daily with a frequency of 20 minutes. The fare for the...

The seventh National Farmers’ Forum, themed “Professional Farmers” was held in Hanoi on September 12 by the Vietnam Farmers’ Union (VFU) Central Committee and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan speaks at the forum (Photo: VNA) In his opening remarks, Chairman of the VFU Central Committee Luong Quoc Doan highlighted the central...

Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Vo Tuan Nhan signed a dispatch on the organisation of activities to respond to the global campaign to make the world cleaner in 2022. Illustrative image (Source: baochinhphu.vn) The campaign, initiated by Australia and started in 1993, has become an important annual event drawing hundreds of countries and millions of people around...

On the morning of September 12, in Hanoi, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a nationwide online conference on fire prevention and fighting and reviewed the 5-year implementation of Decree 83 dated July 18, 2017 of the Government regulating the rescue work of the fire prevention and fighting force. Delegates at Lang Son connection point attended the conference Attending...

Heavy rain forecasting and early warning systems are being focused on to mitigate the effects of floods, flash floods, landslides and inundation, according to Director of the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Mai Van Khiem. Heavy rain forecasting and early warning systems are being focused on to mitigate the effects of floods, flash floods, landslides and inundation. (Photo: VNA)...

Organs from a brain-dead donor have been successfully transplanted into six patients by the Cho Ray Hospital and the Children’s Hospital No 2 in Ho Chi Minh City. Medical workers observe a minute of silence to pay tribute to a brain-dead organ donor. (Illustrative image: VNA) The Cho Ray Hospital said its human organ transplantation coordinating unit was...

A kindergarten school made of recycled plastic – the first of this kind in Vietnam, was put into operation on September 9 in Cao Son commune in Muong Khuong district of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai. The kindergarten school made of recycled plastic in Muong Khuong district, Lao Cai (Photo: VNA) The construction of the school was...

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent a letter to Vietnamese children at home and abroad, as well a foreign children in Vietnam, expressing his best wishes to them on the occasion of the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, which falls on September 10 this year. (Photo:...

Ambassador Bonnie Denise Jenkins, US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, paid a working trip to the central province of Quang Tri on September 9 to learn about its post-war recovery. At a mine disposal site in Quang Tri (Photo: VNA) Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Hoang Nam presented results of the...

The UK Embassy in Hanoi and the UK Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City have opened books of condolences for people to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II. Queen Elizabeth II passed away on September 8 at the age of 96. (Source: Getty Images) People can leave messages at the Embassy (4th floor, 31 Hai Ba Trung, Hanoi)...