Provinces in the northwestern region of the country are seeing positive results from the second phase of a healthcare service project funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), launched in 2013.

Five years after Đồng Nai Province began implementing a plan to relocate nearly 480 polluting production and other facilities out of urban and residential areas, most of the establishments remain in place.

Three scientists have made Vietnamese science history, having their work published in one the most prestigious journal in the field of physics, Physical Review Letters, on January 9, an event said to be paving way for more pronounced presence of Vietnamese works in the international science community. 

More than 50,000ha of protective and special-use forests in the south-eastern province of Tây Ninh face the risk of fire due to the prolonged hot, dry weather.

A field hospital will be set up at the 175 Military Hospital in HCM City, possibly in July, to provide medical support in case of epidemics or disasters and to UN peacekeeping operations.

Việt Nam’s doctors have for the first time successfully conducted a lung transplant from alive donor.

HCM City has given approval to Australia’s Trisun Green Energy Corporation to build a plasma gasification waste treatment plant, according to People’s Committee chairman Nguyễn Thành Phong.

 Sixteen accused in a cheating case involving a gas station at 436 Trần Khát Chân Street were given various levels of punishments, from administrative fines to prison sentences.

As many as 100 Japanese cherry trees were planted in Nguyễn Văn Cừ Park, Bắc Ninh City of the northern province of Bắc Ninh on Wednesday.