Trade unions of Việt Nam will constantly boost comprehensive reforms to confirm their role in the protection of workers’ and labourers’ rights, as Việt Nam strives to enhance its international integration.

HCM City is expected to demolish up to half of all apartment buildings that are in disrepair by 2020, according to Lê Văn Khoa, deputy chairman of the city’s People’s Committee.

Vaccines against pneumonia, diarrhoea and the HPV virus that causes cervical cancer will be added to the national immunisation programme, with support from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation.

Vietnamese are coming to terms with corruption as only three per cent of those who were forced to pay under the table said they would go to the police, according to UNDP research.

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has urged local authorities to increase inspections and punish all establishments using child labour or forced labour. They are to report their findings by November 15.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has called for immediate plans to expand HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất Airport after inspecting its international terminal yesterday, saying its is too congested.

Trần Đắc Phu, director of the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Heath Department, has warned that the dengue fever would continue to spread this year as an effect of the El Nino phenomenon and the cyclical nature of the disease, re-appearing every five years.

Family Medical Practice (FMP) Vietnam and the Israeli Embassy will jointly organise a free medical check-up and treatment camp for the needy in the Central Highlands’ Kon Tum Province.