Social Affairs

In the recent time, the clean agriculture, that has been no longer a new concept in Vietnam, has actually been paid a special attention by many young people to pursue startup business.

The Ministry of Transport has instructed the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) to adjust the plan for Dien Bien Airport from 2017-2020, with a view to 2030, to submit for approval in June 2017.

The 10th Xuan Hong (Red Spring) Festival kicked off at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi on February 18. The event marked 10 years of the Red Spring Festival in Vietnam.

More than 50 experts working in various fields shared their experiences with female entrepreneurs how to start business at the workshop, themed “Build-A-Business” held in Hanoi on February 16.

Hanoi Sewerage and Drainage Limited Company held a workshop on February 15 to discuss measures to improve the water environment in Hoan Kiem Lake.

A joint venture in Vietnam has been allowed to offer double-decker buses and airport transport services in seven cities and provinces whose tourism sectors are thriving.

The capital city is aiming to have an additional 22 communes and two districts recognised as new-style rural areas in 2017, according to the municipal Party Committee’s steering board for agricultural development and new countryside building.

Vocational schools should focus on improving training quality and education establishments need to establish the close cooperarion with businesses to reach substantive changes, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said at a conference held by the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) in HCM City on January 16.

Vietnam`s Ministry of Public Security`s General Department of Logistics-Engineering held here Friday a ceremony to launch preparations for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Year 2017.

Interdisciplinary inspection teams, in coordination with local authorities, will take samples of food at food businesses operating at festivals for tests in February, according to Diretor of Hanoi’s Department of Health Nguyen Khac Hien.

The Hanoi city will strive for supporting 10,230 families rise out of poverty in 2017, representing a 0.6 percent reduction in household poverty rate compared to the previous year.

The electronic system will also make insurance payments faster and more transparent. Vietnam plans to issue electronic health security cards to its citizens verifying their right to medical services, the Government Office said.

President Tran Dai Quang attended the annual Tich Dien (ploughing) festival in Doi Son commune, the Red River Delta province of Ha Nam on February 3.

While speaking at the launch of a tree planting festival held in Cam Pha city, the northern province of Quang Ninh, on February 2, Pesident Tran Dai Quang called on people to plant trees according to their conditions.

Vietnam aims to create more than 1.6 million new jobs for laborers, including 105,000 people sent to work abroad in 2017, according to Vietnamese Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) Dao Ngoc Dung.

The northern province of Ninh Binh should push its tourism sector to make breakthroughs, with the aim of turning into a spearhead economic sector, President Tran Dai Quang stressed at a working session with the province’s leaders on the afternoon of January 30.

On special occasions like ancestors’ death anniversaries or the Lunar New Year, special rites are performed to communicate with the dead.The rites consist of making offerings of fruits, lighting the candles; and burning incense before praying in front of the altar.

Deputy Prime Minister (PM) Vu Duc Dam paid a visit to the French physicist Pierre Darriulat, writer Ma Van Khang, actor Thanh Loan and choreographer Chu Thuy Quynh on January 26 on the occasion of the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet).

A Hanoi delegation led by Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Hoang Trung Hai and Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung paid visits to former Party, State and National Assembly leaders on the occasion of the 2017 Lunar New Year (Tet) festival on January 23.

Vietnam`s National Power Transmission Corporation (EVNNPT) planned to put into operation 63 projects worth over 21.2 trillion Vietnamese dong (934.43 million U.S. dollars) in 2017.