Up to 15 serious labour safety violations at coal mines in northern Quảng Ninh province were reported in the first nine months of this year, killing 18 people and injured dozens of others, Lao Động (Labour) newspaper reported.

In August alone, there were five cases, leaving six coal miners dead.

Many health facilities in HCM City have run out of flu vaccines at a time when the peak flu season is arriving.

The head of the HCM City AIDS Prevention Centre has asked the Việt Nam Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS to help the country reach the 90-90-90 targets set by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS to help end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.

Over the next five years, the Asian Development Bank will support investment and policy reforms in Viet Nam that promote more inclusive and environmentally sustainable economic growth.

Việt Nam has honoured its commitment to the Paris climate agreement through diverse activities under the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) framework which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

 A children’s protection programme will try to lower the proportion of disadvantaged children and those who are identified as vulnerable under the current rate of 4.3 per cent from now to 2020, according to goals set by the HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry is very concerned about a12-year-old pregnant girl in China who is supposedly a Vietnamese national, Deputy Spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry Pham Thu Hang said.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has tasked the Ministry of Health to quickly clarify contents in the article reported by Thanh Niên (Young People) newspaper about “industrial” fish sauces containing a number of chemical additives selling in the market.

The central city of Da Nang is worried that its main source of fresh water will be polluted if a steel factory in Quảng Nam Province is relocated to the banks of the Vu Gia-Thu Bồn River.