Tourism police to protect foreigners

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Tourism police to protect foreigners

The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has been asked by its department in Ha Noi to establish a tourism police force dedicated to protecting visitors who are increasingly suffering from tourist scams in the capital.

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Towering inferno

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Towering inferno

A fire at the Shang One Viet Nam Company warehouse in southern Binh Duong Province's Di An Town began at 4.30pm on Saturday following an explosion. The blaze spread to a chemical storage area and workshop. Hundreds of firefighters arrived to put out the flame which took about three hours. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

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Water shortage hits suburban Ha Noi

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A shortage of clean water has hit residents in many of Ha Noi's suburban districts, leaving them no choice but to spend over the odds on water or resort to using stagnant pond water.

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Rice left on roads endangers traffic

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Twice a year, during the harvest season, farmers in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien place straw and grains to dry them along major highways.

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Hydro lake depleted of fish due to ‘poor management'

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Fish have become depleted in an artificial lake in northern Dien Bien Province's Dien Bien District due to lack of management and co-operation among vested interest groups while calls for action by local commune leaders and residents have gone unheeded.

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Hospital upgrade to cost $23.8m

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The municipal Health Department started a new project yesterday to upgrade and expand Ba Vi General Hospital with total investment of VND500 billion (about US$23.8m)

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Poor workers to get small loans

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The Viet Nam General Confederation of Labour has proposed expanding a HCM City-based microfinance fund to help more poor households take out low-interest loans, according to Mai Duc Chinh, deputy head of the conference.

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City fixes flood areas, but new ones emerge

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City fixes flood areas, but new ones emerge

HCM City will not suffer serious flooding in the coming rainy season, a senior official says.

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Tra Vinh official arrested for bribery

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Police in the southern province of Tra Vinh have arrested chief inspector of the provincial agriculture and rural development department for allegedly accepting bribes from two local fertiliser production companies.

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Workers killed when lift falls 18 floors

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Three workers were killed on a construction site in an urban area of Ha Dong District after an elevator apparently felt from the 18th floor to the ground on Saturday morning.

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Two students drowned near construction site

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Two elementary students drowned on Saturday in a pond near a construction site in Thot Not District, Can Tho City.

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Bamboo plantations stem poverty in Lam Dong

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Bamboo plantations stem poverty in Lam Dong

Co Xanh Company has begun to buy the bamboo harvested by farmers in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong's Da Teh District.

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Lower land-use fees help City homeowners

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VietNam News English 7 day(s) ago

Lower land-use fees will help residents in HCM City become homeowners and have better access to land-use right certificates, according to a source from the city's People's Committee.

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Experts support HPV vaccines in fight against cancer

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More than 150 health experts from southern provinces and cities gathered at a workshop held yesterday in central Phan Thiet City to hear the latest research about the treatment of Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-related diseases.

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‘Unreasonable' insurance plan ignored by farmers

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Farming households have shown little interest in joining a pilot programme offering agricultural insurance since it started in seven provinces two years ago.

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