Twenty three schools in HCM City will adopt an advanced model that meets international standards this academic year, according to the city Department of Education and Training.

Việt Nam has made significant progress in saving children’s lives, getting children into school and lifting people out of poverty, but this progress has been neither even nor fair, said the latest United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) annual flagship report launched yesterday in Hà Nội.

Việt Nam’s national action plan for prevention and control of hospital infections between 2016 and 2020 will focus on improving effectiveness at health facilities to ensure patient and staff safety.

The second phase of a bridge building programme, which aims at building nearly 4,000 bridges in remote areas, will be kicked off next month, said Nguyễn Văn Huyện, director of the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN).

Using information technology in agriculture is imperative for improving productivity and quality and reducing costs to bolster the sector’s competitiveness amid the country’s integration, a seminar heard in HCM City on Tuesday.

Management activities on inland waterway transport should be further enhanced to ensure traffic safety. This was main point in a recent instruction issued by the Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on strengthening measures for safe traffic and security on waterways.

The HCM City administration has received more than 13,000 complaints and suggestions since it set up a hotline three months ago.

A metal base transceiver station (BTS) atop a 10-storey building in Hà Nội’s Đống Đa District collapsed at noon today, killing one man.

Grasshoppers have consumed the leaves of some 800ha of crops and over 8,000ha of forest in the northern mountainous Sơn La Province’s Sốp Cộp District since mid-May.