Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has given the nod to a package worth over VNĐ5.3 trillion (US$236 million) to invest in the construction of five hospitals in HCM City.

Hà Nội will set up an inter-sector team to inspect the business operations and the safety of boats and floating houses on West Lake by next month, Vũ Văn Viện, the city’s Transport Department director said.

Unsightly and dilapidated temporary houses for construction workers that have long since been abandoned are affecting the landscape in some parts of the city.

As many as six more cases of Japanese encephalitis (JE) have been reported in Hà Nội over the past week, raising the total cases to nine, the city’s Preventive Medicine Centre announced yesterday.

An online football betting and gambling ring was busted on Wednesday afternoon by the capital city’s police in Hoàng Mai District. The betting and gambling money seized by the police was worth VNĐ6 billion (roughly US$280,000).

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has asked the Việt Nam Social Insurance and Ministry of Health to work harder in the time ahead to have at least 90 per cent of the population covered by health insurance by 2020, as demanded by the Prime Minister.

A strengthened co-operative mechanism between the Việt Nam Fatherland Front and other State anti-corruption agencies is needed to better oversee and detect corruption.

Four Chinese nationals were arrested for alleged swindling and misappropriation of assets, the city police said. Those arrested are Guan Zao, 46, Ke Qinying, 52, Xie Yuqiong, 44, and Zang Huamei, 47. 

Locals in the southern province of Tây Ninh have been asked to return the land on which they have illegally encroached to forestry projects, the provincial Agriculture and Rural Development Department said.