The Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) today appealed for donations for victims of severe drought and salt intrusion in the Central, Central Highland and Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta regions.

Thousands of parents in Hà Nội failed to register their children for their five-in-one Pentaxim vaccination on Thursday. The city’s Centre for Preventive Medicine could meet only one-thirtieth of the total demand for 91,000 vaccination doses.

Đà Nẵng Province’s Forest Protection Sub-department has dismissed two leaders of the Sơn Trà Peninsula Forest Management Unit and suspended two others over the recent deforestation issue.

A forest fire broke out today in northern mountainous Yên Bái Province’s Nậm Có Commune, vice chairman of the Mù Căng Chải District’s People’s Committee Lê Trọng Khang has said.

Eight fishermen aboard a fishing boat off the shore in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế suffered serious injuries and burns when a battery exploded on the vessel this morning.

Secretary of the Hà Nội Party Committee Hoàng Trung Hải yesterday said he hoped youth would play a key role in developing the capital’s economy.

All departments of education and training throughout the country have warned students not to ride electric bikes without registering them and installing number plates.

Health experts and policy makers discussed ways to improve the outcomes of patient care and the quality of pharma products at a symposium yesterday in Hà Nội.

Doctors from Đà Nẵng’s Paediatrics and Obstetrics Hospital and the International Pediatric Specialists Alliance (IPSAC) have successfully completed a surgery on a local three-month-old baby who had been born without an anus.