The National Assembly deputies adopted a resolution on the country’s socio-economic development plan for 2011, agreeing with a GDP growth rate of 7-7.5%.
Downpours from 3pm to 7pm together with high tide on November 7 prompted flooding in Ho Chi Minh City and brought traffic in the city to chaos for several hours.
A technical support centre will be set up to help farmers acquaint themselves with new technologies applicable to the growing and processing of cashews.
A national action month for HIV/AIDS prevention and control was jointly launched by the Ministry of Health and the Thai Nguyen provincial People’s Committee.
The houses and fields of many people in Cao Bang Province were buried after a dyke containing the waste sludge generated at a local iron ore excavator broke.
China will spend $4.5 billion searching for domestic mineral deposits over the next five years in a bid to lessen its reliance on imported products, state media said.