The volume of goods transported in the four-month period reached 189 billion tonnes, marking an 11.5% increase year-on-year. This includes substantial growth across various sectors, specifically aviation by 14.5%; road, 15.7%; waterway, 12.1%; seaway, 11%; and railway, 5.5%.
A database of over 24 million teachers and students, accounting for 98% of the total, has been verified and linked to the national population database, making the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) among the first agencies to complete the database connection, said director of the ministry's Information and Communication Technology Department Nguyen Son Hai.
A conference was held in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on November 18 to raise local young people's awareness of the importance of a database for environmental protection and climate change response.
The World Bank (WB) in Vietnam on August 3 published a final report of Road Safety Data Assessment in Vietnam for the establishment of a National Road Safety Observatory (NRSO).
The Ministry of Justice, in collaboration with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam and the UK Embassy, held a workshop on presentation of the database on the recognition and enforcement in Vietnam of foreign courts’ judgments and foreign arbitral awards.
A database of Vietnamese manufacturing and supporting industries was launched on June 19 with a view to helping enhance links between businesses, including between domestic and foreign concerns.
All residents in Ho Chi Minh City will have electronic medical records connected to the database of the city's health facilities by 2025, according to the municipal People’s Committee.
The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam (DRVN) is planning to launch a campaign to put an end to heavy trucks that had been modified to carry excess loads.
Thailand will join hands with Indonesia to push for creative industries starting with three major industries with a growth target of five percent per year.
Many transport enterprises may have to spend trillions of VND to replace their current black box recording devices with new ones if draft regulations on transport trading are approved.
Vietnam pledges coordination with and hopes to receive further support from the World Bank (WB) and other partners to improve food hygiene and safety, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at an online conference held in Hanoi on April 18.
A website providing a database on war martyrs and their graves will be launched on December 22, the 73rd founding day of the Vietnam People’s Army, a unit of the Ministry of Information and Communications announced on December 12.
The difficulties involved in developing smart cities and possible solutions were on the agenda of a conference on “General Solutions for Smart City” (Smart City 360 Degrees) held in HCM City on September 19.
Establishing smart cities will make urban areas better places to live and work due to their economic, social and environmental aspects, Minister of Information and Communication Nguyen Minh Hong said at a symposium in Hanoi on May 18.
As of December 31, 2016, Vietnam had a total forest area of nearly 14.378 million hectares, including over 10.242 million hectares of natural forest and more than 4.135 million hectares of planted area, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Vietnamese students in Japan had a chance to learn about the personnel demands of Japanese enterprises at a job connection programme recently held in Japan’s Saitama prefecture.
