Several construction works in the southern province of Đồng Nai’s Biên Hòa City were damaged in the heavy rains on Thursday.

Chợ Rẫy Hospital has successfully conducted skin graft surgery on a patient with serious cellulitis in the groin region.

Nearly 600 officials and volunteers of Việt Nam Red Cross Society yesterday participated in the celebration of World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day in HCM City.

The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecastings reported yesterday hot weather would occur in the north in the oncoming three to five days. Temperatures could be up to 40 degrees Celsius.

Cardiac surgeons at the HCM City University Medical Centre have successfully performed 100 minimally invasive heart operations.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoPI) has officially submitted to the Government a draft blueprint for the highly controversial transportation and hydroelectric project on the iconic Hồng (Red) River of Hà Nội for further consideration, stressing that it was still “merely only an idea.”

World Vision is providing relief to vulnerable children and poor people in the southern province of Bình Thuận, suffering from the country’s worst drought in nearly a century.

Several human trafficking cases were recently uncovered in the poor remote areas of the northern mountainous province of Sơn La.

Four people were injured and several houses and farm produce of residents were damaged yesterday in a limestone mine explosion  in northern Yên Bái province’s Lục Yên District.