Special news on Hanoi Moi newspaper on June 27, 2025

The first day of the 2025 high school graduation exam: Tightening supervision, many innovations in exam questions; Agriculture creates high-quality living space; Affirming the role of a driving force for regional development; Unmeasurable waste from extra teaching and learning; "Resettlement apartments are degraded, abandoned and wasteful - How to rescue them?" - The last article: "Rescuing" resettlement apartments... are notable information in the Hanoi Moi printed newspaper published on June 27, 2025.

First day of high school graduation exam 2025: Tightened supervision, many innovations in exam questions

Supervisors disseminate regulations to candidates at the examination site of Luong The Vinh Middle and High School (Cau Giay District). Photo: Nhat Nam

On the afternoon of June 26, along with candidates nationwide, more than 124,000 candidates in Hanoi completed the first day of the 2025 high school graduation exam with two compulsory tests: Literature (120 minutes) and Math (90 minutes).

Supervision is tightened right from the stage of organizing the exam. Deputy Head of the exam site of Nguyen Du Secondary School (Hoan Kiem District) Bui Thi Phuong Dung said that training in exam supervision and disseminating regulations to invigilators and candidates are given special importance.

Candidate Nguyen Minh Nhat, taking the exam at Tran Duy Hung Secondary School (Cau Giay District) said that he focused on reviewing subjects in group A00 so he did not find the math test too difficult, and predicted to get 9 points.

Leaving the exam site of Phan Dinh Phung High School (Ba Dinh District), candidate Nguyen Tuan Anh shared: "My teachers have guided me to approach many texts outside of textbooks, so when I saw the excerpt "Different Skies" in the exam, I was not too surprised."

Agriculture creates high quality living space

The vegetable growing model at Gen Xanh Organic Farm (Hiep Thuan commune, Phuc Tho district) brings high economic efficiency.

Director of the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Environment Nguyen Xuan Dai assessed that although accounting for only about 2% of the capital's economic structure, Hanoi's agriculture is always among the top in the country in terms of scale, production value and development level. In particular, recently, Hanoi's agricultural orientation has made a strong shift to a green - circular model, serving the group of consumers with high requirements for food quality and traceability.

“If we develop high-tech agriculture, we will have to build greenhouses and net houses, while lessons from Lam Dong province show that this model has a negative impact on the environment and climate. To limit this, Hanoi has selected some suitable areas to develop greenhouses and net houses; the rest will be prioritized for ecological and organic agriculture associated with tourism,” Vice Chairman of the City People’s Committee Nguyen Manh Quyen emphasized.

Affirming the role of driving force to promote regional development

Construction of parallel road of the Investment Project to build Ring Road 4 - Hanoi Capital Region in Me Linh district. Photo: Nguyen Quang

Hanoi - the heart of the country is promoting regional connectivity, creating momentum for socio-economic development. According to the Hanoi City Council for Dissemination and Education of Law, the breakthrough provisions in the 2024 Capital Law have become an important legal basis, allowing the City People's Council to decide on investment policies for projects of strategic and urgent significance.

Architect Le Hoang Phuong, Director of the Hanoi Center for Architecture and Planning, said that Hanoi needs to build an effective regional coordination mechanism, closely connecting with surrounding provinces. Specialized industrial zones or high-tech agricultural zones in neighboring provinces must be integrated into Hanoi's supply and consumption chains to create a clear spillover effect.

The waste from extra teaching and learning is hard to measure.

The year 2025 marks a turning point in the education sector when Circular No. 29/2024/TT-BGDDT regulating extra teaching and learning officially takes effect. However, this continues to be a hot issue of public concern.

With a child entering grade 9 this year, this summer Mr. Tran Hoang (Nam Tu Liem district) sent his child to 3 math classes at the same time: "One is an advanced class that my child has been taking for many years, one is an extra class that the school opened so the family... can't refuse, and one is a specialized review class because my child wants to take the entrance exam for a specialized school."

Many ways to circumvent the law to teach and learn extra continue to exist. “The tuition fee is 1.4 million VND, but the extra class costs 4.1 million VND! Then we should change the name of the main course to extra class and the extra class to main course, to be honest” - a parent complained on social media.

During the question and answer session before the National Assembly, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son affirmed that Circular No. 29/2024/TT-BGDDT on extra teaching and learning not only solves a social problem, but is also part of the innovation process to change schools.

Series of articles "Deteriorated and abandoned resettlement apartments - How to rescue them?"

Last article: “Rescue” resettlement apartments

A building in Den Lu Resettlement Area (Hoang Mai District) is seriously degraded and has not been renovated or repaired.

How to "rescue" resettlement apartments from the current state of degradation and squalor?

Deputy Director of Hanoi Department of Construction Mac Dinh Minh said that in order to overcome the shortcomings in maintenance, renovation and repair work at resettlement buildings, and to implement the plan of the City People's Committee, in 2018, the Department of Construction reported to the City People's Committee to assign the Management Board of the City's Cultural and Social Construction Investment Project (now the Hanoi Civil Construction Investment Project Management Board) to carry out the work of renovating, repairing and upgrading the fire prevention and fighting system for resettlement apartment buildings in the area.

"The Department of Construction has also reported to the City People's Committee to assign the Hanoi City Housing Management Center to research and develop regulations to organize the review, make a list and promptly implement projects to renovate, repair and maintain common property items in degraded resettlement apartment buildings," Mr. Mac Dinh Minh added.

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