A campaign to destroy mosquitoes and their larvae was launched yesterday in the southeast province of Đồng Nai to prevent the spread of dengue fever and the Zika virus.

Some 292,000 disadvantaged people in the four provinces of Hà Giang, Quảng Nam, Lâm Đồng and Trà Vinh have benefited from a cash transfer programme that has been trialled for nearly a year.

 Thanks to technical assistance from surgeons at HCM City’s Thủ Đức District Hospital, doctors at District 11 Hospital were able to perform, for the first time, operations on a broken leg and hernia.

The empowerment of women and girls in Việt Nam has reached significant achievements, said Hoàng Thị Thu Huyền, deputy director of the Department of Gender Equality under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Việt Nam is seeing an increase in the number of people with anaphylaxis, according to experts at a conference last week on emergency critical care medicine and medical toxicology.

After Đồng Nai Province, it is now the turn of Bình Dương to seek extension of HCM City’s first metro route from Bến Thành to Suối Tiên so that it can reach the province’s Mỹ Phước-Tân Vạn Road.

More than a thousand tourists who were stuck on Monday on Cù Lao Chàm Island in the central province were taken safely to the mainland yesterday morning.

The central city's environmental police department, along with the veterinary sub-department, seized 780kg of packaged and fresh pork fat from an illegal processing house in Liên Chiểu District yesterday.

A fire broke out in the Phú Yên market in Hải Dương City in the northern province of Hải Dương this morning.