HCM City is considering an eight-year plan to reduce the exploitation of groundwater resources in an aim to protect residents’ health and avoid risks of land subsidence.

 Hundreds of students in central Ha Tinh Province risk their lives every day, commuting to schools on unsafe bridges and via obsolete boats.

 An inaccurate labour database and poor forecasting is exacerbating the nation’s unemployment problem, officials admitted at a conference on Thursday.

 More than 90 per cent of HCM City’s CO2 emissions in 2013 came from transportation and stationary energy, which refers to fuel consumption for electricity generation, manufacturing, construction and others like domestic heating.

 Export turnover of agro-forestry-aquatic products is expected to reach 2.74 billion USD in October, bringing the ten-month figure to nearly 29.76 billion USD, up 12.7 percent year-on-year.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan on the establishment of a national natural resources and environmental monitoring for 2017-2022.

 A regional safe water supply project with total investment of about 1.7 billion USD will be launched in the Mekong Delta, said a representative from the Technical Infrastructure Agency of the Ministry of Construction.

 Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia Ngo Huong Nam has paid a courtesy call on Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop.

  Vietnam has actively partaken in the 11th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) and the fourth ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM+) which freshly concluded in Clark city of the Philippines.

The Ministry of Finance is drafting regulations on e-bills and will ask the Government to set a deadline of July 2018 for businesses to switch over from paper. 

 The special meeting of the Council of ASEAN Chief Justices (CACJ) took place in Manila, the Philippines, on October 27.

 The year 2017 sees the second time Vietnam has played host to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum after 19 years of being a member of the forum. 

VASEP has proposed urgent measures to avoid receiving the European Commission (EC)’s “red card” warning after six months of a “yellow card” it has applied on Vietnam’s seafood, towards re-winning the “green card”.

 The National Assembly discussed the draft revised Law on Fisheries at its plenary session in Hanoi on October 27. 

Vietnam needs a gradual sustainable increase in forex reserves, rather than a shocking increase as seen in the last two years, according to analysts. 

 Amid the spiralling ramifications of climate change in Vietnam, energy-saving and CO2-reducing technologies have proven an inevitable trend for small- and medium-sized enterprises.Bich Thuy reports.

Arriving in the US at the age of 18, holding no professional certification, with limited English skills, Hang later secured a position in an European export-import firm while at the same time doing business on her own.

  FPT officially launched the technology contest the “Digital Race 2017 – 2018” with the theme of self-driving cars on Thursday.

 With its steady economic growth, political stability, a youthful population, and equitisation of State-owned enterprises, Viet Nam’s securities market is attractive to investors, the Gateway to Vietnam Conference heard in HCM City on October 25.

 The food and beverage market is expected to see potential for further development in the 2017-18 period, according to the Viet Nam Report Company (VNR).