A US$300,000 agreement has been signed for improving the hygiene and sanitary conditions of 15,000 women and girls in 7,500 poor and near-poor households in Việt Nam.

Việt Đức Hospital this morning suspended all members of the surgical team that operated on the right leg of a 37-year-old male patient, instead of his left leg yesterday afternoon.

The Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) and the Asia Foundation in Việt Nam yesterday held a workshop in Hà Nội to launch a project on protecting the legitimate rights of Vietnamese guest workers.

The HCM City People’s Court has rejected appeals by two gang killers found guilty of a massacre that shocked the country last year.

The Government should bar certain industries from exploiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) lest they damage public health, health activists warned yesterday.

It is necessary to reorganise the co-operative sector through gathering individual producers in co-operatives and co-operative groups in the time ahead, said President of the Việt Nam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Nguyễn Thiện Nhân.

Hồ Văn Hiệp, a resident of central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, sits looking at the sun beams piercing the roof of his home and wishing his compensation payment would come soon so that he can repair the broken roof before the rainy season.

Supervisors of the 27^th International Biology Olympiad (IBO) visit the Việt Nam Museum of Ethnology yesterday in Hà Nội.

Deputy PM Vương Đình Huệ has promised help from the Government for the tourism sector in the central provinces hit hard by the Formosa environmental disaster.