Doctors of northern Phú Thọ Province's General Hospital successfully conducted a living-unrelated kidney transplant, said Hoàng Công Lâm, the hospital deputy director.

The lacklustre agricultural mechanisation was attributed to the unsatisfactorily slow progress in land aggregation, leading to the persistence of small-scale and scattered production, said Ngô Đại Ngọc, deputy director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Customs officials in northern Quảng Ninh Province, in cooperation with provincial border soldiers, arrested two persons allegedly transporting more than 3kg of products made from endangered wild animals.

 Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a plan to draw over VNĐ115 billion (US$5 million) from the State budget to assist 10 localities in dealing with the aftermath of storm Dianmu and the floods this year.

With creativity, enthusiasm and a startup spirit, a group of southern youth has succeeded in their businesses.

Many suspension bridges in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng were built of wood. Their vertical piers are dilapidated while many parts of their decks are decayed, covered with rotten wood pieces, making them dangerous to cross. 

The HCM City Department of Transport last Friday (Nov 25) signed a contract with a consortium of investors to build the Ring Road No.2 section stretching from Phạm Văn Đồng Street to Gò Dưa intersection on National Highway 1A in HCM City.

Việt Nam will face a huge budget deficit in health services for people with HIV/AIDS in the next five years, an official from the HIV/AIDS Prevention Agency, Dương Thúy Anh, said yesterday at a conference on insurance payments for ARV therapy.

The Vietnamese student team has won 32 medals - 20 gold medals, 11 silver ones and one bronze - in the seventh World Mathematics Team Championship (WMTC) held in Seoul, South Korea.