The HCM City People’s Committee has approved construction of embankments at 28 outlying locations to prevent erosion of river and canal banks.

Enhancing education on global ethics for women and young people is an essential task to ensure world peace, especially as the world faces increased uncertainty, a conference heard on Saturday.

Thành Nguyễn hair salon on Phạm Hồng Thái street, from the outside, looks to be your fairly run-of-the-mill establishment. But once you venture inside, it’s hard not to notice a strange silence quite unbefitting usually chatty and busy hair salon, save for the familiar sounds of metal-against-metal sounds of scissors or occasional blow-dryer’s white noise

A technique for freezing to preserve red blood cells with glycerol at -80 degree Celsius for 10 years and a milk with high protein which is the first product made by a Vietnamese nutritionist are two of the outstanding scientific research works awarded the KOVA Prize in the category of Creative Ideas for Applied Science last Saturday (December 17).

Việt Nam’s fertility rate has declined from 6.4 to 2.1 children per woman over the last 55 years, but the rate varies widely among provinces, according to the General Department of Population and Family Planning.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has instructed ministries and agencies to mobilise all forces and resources to ensure safety and food for residents in flood-hit areas and minimise losses of human lives and property.

Natural disasters have cost the northern province of Cà Mau VNĐ1.427 trillion (US$63 million) this year, the provincial People’s Committee said.

The central city’s People’s Committee has asked two joint-stock steel companies – Dana Ý and Dana Úc – to stop production of two factories in Liên Chiểu and Hòa Vang districts, due to the serious pollution they continued to cause.

The Hà Nội People’s High Court started hearing an appeal yesterday on a high-profile corruption and economic mismanagement case at the State-owned Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) which resulted in the loss of over VNĐ2.425 trillion (US$106.6 million).