Eight inspection teams from the Ministry of Health (MoH) have checked Zika virus disease and dengue fever prevention and control measures in 16 provinces and cities, the Preventive Medicines Centre said today.

The HCM City People’s Court today sentenced a 56-year-old woman to 15 years in jail for fraud and appropriation of property.

Tokyo Human Health Sciences University Việt Nam has started offering undergraduate courses to Vietnamese students, with a training capacity of up to 1,200 people.

Malnutrition rates, both underweight and stunting, of children under five years old has reduced slightly in Việt Nam in 2015, a report of the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) released today said.

Smart traffic measures will be applied to digital maps for road transport along more than 20,000km of highway stretching across the country.

HCM City’s Party Committee plans to establish a steering committee to provide guidance on developing the southern metropolis into a smart city that would improve the quality of life of its residents.

Five pedestrian overbridges will be built in HCM City’s Districts 3, Gò Vấp, Phú Nhuận, and Bình Thạnh and on Highway 1A this year, according the city’s Urban Traffic Management Zone No.1.

In a small house used for cultural, social and educational activities in Bình Thạnh District’s Ward 26, a group of young people was initially embarrassed when a young doctor explained how to use condoms. They were reluctant to answer questions about safe sex, causes for childlessness, reproductive health care and contraceptive methods.

HCM City’s plan to set up a mechanised slaughterhouse system replacing the existing manual one has been stymied for more than a decade after getting entangled in red tape.