A 35 year-old woman in HCM City died of dengue fever on Tuesday (Jan 3), taking to six the total number of fatalities due to the disease since last year, according to the Preventive Medicine Centre.

Two secondary school students drowned while playing in an water canal near a construction site in the southern An Giang Province’s Chợ Mới District.

Road accidents and traffic gridlocks are on the rise on National Highway 5, which links Hà Nội and Hải Phòng City, despite there being an alternative faster, smoother expressway.

A seal that often played with locals in the central province of Bình Thuận is believed to have been cruelly killed by humans.

Local farmers have blamed wastewater discharged into the sea by a couple recently, for the mass clam deaths in central Thanh Hóa Province’s Hải Lộc Commune.

Việt Nam is expected to produce six-in-one vaccines in 2017 or 2018 and by 2020 these will be used widely in the country, according to the health ministry. 

The HCM City People’s Committee has approved 115 projects that will cost VNĐ4.2 trillion (US$193.5 million).

A network of thousands of outstanding Vietnamese individuals living in foreign countries world-wide, is expected to be set up following a project newly kicked off by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union yesterday held a ceremony to honour 10 outstanding young citizens of 2016, chosen from 126 nominations, double the number of nominees last year. Eligible youth are 30 years old and under.