Only about 65 per cent of rural households in Việt Nam have standard toilets, said associate professor Nguyễn Thị Liên Hương, director of the Health Environment Management Agency under the Ministry of Health (MoH), addressing the challenges related to rural hygiene.

More than 138,000 farmers in HCM City have been awarded the title of “Excellent farmers in production and doing business”, part of a programme that recognises outstanding contributions to the agriculture sector over the past five years, according to the city’s Farmers Association.

Nearly two weeks have passed since the particularly devastating heavy downpour and the floods that followed in the Central Highlands. Hundreds of households in Đắk Lắk Province, however, still remain on edge since the floodwaters have put their pepper fields in jeopardy.

HCM City authorities plan to relocate people living in 20,000 houses in slums along canals and rivers by 2020.

The National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân asked the Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) to continue to promote its humanitarian activities, healthcare, emergency aid and disaster prevention and response programmes at a ceremony to celebrate its 70th founding anniversary on Saturday.

The fight against smuggling in southwestern provinces has never been easy.

City steps up preventive methods in communes without Zika cases

The HCM City Department of Health plans to create the best conditions for the private sector to open more family medical clinics to provide comprehensive primary healthcare service to residents.