Malnutrition rates, both underweight and stunting, of children under five years old has reduced slightly in Việt Nam in 2015, a report of the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) released today said.

Smart traffic measures will be applied to digital maps for road transport along more than 20,000km of highway stretching across the country.

HCM City’s Party Committee plans to establish a steering committee to provide guidance on developing the southern metropolis into a smart city that would improve the quality of life of its residents.

Five pedestrian overbridges will be built in HCM City’s Districts 3, Gò Vấp, Phú Nhuận, and Bình Thạnh and on Highway 1A this year, according the city’s Urban Traffic Management Zone No.1.

In a small house used for cultural, social and educational activities in Bình Thạnh District’s Ward 26, a group of young people was initially embarrassed when a young doctor explained how to use condoms. They were reluctant to answer questions about safe sex, causes for childlessness, reproductive health care and contraceptive methods.

HCM City’s plan to set up a mechanised slaughterhouse system replacing the existing manual one has been stymied for more than a decade after getting entangled in red tape.

As many as 748 sets of remains of Vietnamese experts and volunteers have been repatriated from Cambodia during the 2015-2016 dry season, as heard at the 15th meeting of the Vietnamese and Cambodian special task committees in HCM City yesterday.

The country needs nearly VNĐ825 billion (US$36.7 million) to ensure waterway traffic safety and upgrade waterway infrastructure by 2018, the latest report of the Vietnam Inland Waterways Administration (VIWA) said.

The charity blood drive “Giọt hồng đất lửa” (Red drops of blood on heroic land), held in the central province of Quảng Trị yesterday, collected nearly 450 units of blood.