Adopting drastic measures to minimise the impact of prostitution on society was identified as the core task of the prostitution prevention programme for 2016-20.

The Hòa Bình Sugarcane and Sugar JSC will pay more than VNĐ1.4 billion (US$62,790) as compensation to the households that suffered from the mass fish deaths along the Bưởi River.

An integration programme on military – civil medical services has created an extensive network of healthcare services and disease prevention and consolidated the country’s healthcare system at the grassroots over the past ten years.

The trial installation of security camera systems in the central city of Đà Nẵng has helped the city to discover and prevent hundreds of crimes.

HCM City authorities are taking several measures to ease traffic congestion at the city’s main gateways, including widening of a section of National Highway No. 13 and the construction of an underground tunnel.

Women participating in a seminar yesterday in the southern province of Bình Thuận said collaboration on gender issues was essential in building laws and policies.

More than 50 per cent of asthma patients have poor control of their disease, despite the availability of treatments to help manage their condition, according to the Society of Asthma and Allergy and Clinical Immunology in HCM City.

Concerned sectors must give stricter punishment to violations related to waterway traffic safety, illegal mineral exploiting and dike safety in Hà Nội, said Nguyễn Thế Hùng, deputy chairman of the Hà Nội People’s Committee in a conference held on Tuesday in the capital.

One person was killed and 18 others were seriously injured when a shuttle bus carrying workers flipped over and rolled over several times in Long An Province on Tuesday (May 10) night.