With women facing increased risks of HIV infection, experts are calling for greater emphasis on addressing the needs of women and girls in the national HIV response.

The floodgates of Dầu Tiếng Lake in Đồng Nai Province’s will be opened for the third time this year to ease rising flood waters, the HCM City Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control has said..

More than 95 per cent of Vietnamese journalists were hindered from publishing news at least once during their career, according to a report by RED Communication announced yesterday.

As the Zika virus spreads, poor housing conditions increases the infection risks of workers at industrial zones. So far, 23 people have tested positive for the disease in Việt Nam, and another six cases have been reported in the provinces of Khánh Hòa, Phú Yên, Bình Dương, Long An, Trà Vinh, and Đắk Lắk.

The Culture and Sports centre of the central city of Hội An, in co-operation with the Tokyo Shirubakai Art Troupe, has opened a Japanese language and culture education project for primary school students.

The Đà Nẵng People’s Committee has granted licenses to 29 cruise boats to operate on the Hàn River and on inshore routes in the Sơn Trà Peninsula for a year (2016-2017).

Two people died and thousands of houses were inundated with water as floodwater continue to rise in the central provinces of Quảng Bình and Hà Tĩnh from yesterday. Flood also occurred in late afternoon in Quảng Trị.

The life of a five-year-old child whose chest was punctured by a steel bar after a fall from the third floor of a building was saved by doctors last week who took part in HCM City’s Red Alert emergency procedure.

At least 13 people were killed after a fire broke out at a karaoke venue yesterday afternoon and tore through four neighbouring buildings in Hà Nội’s Dịch Vọng Hậu District.