The central city’s Oncology Hospital, in co-operation with the British–Swedish biopharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, has launched its first-ever Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation testing programme for non-small cell lung cancer patients in Việt Nam.

Up to four centimetres of land subsidence occurs in the Mekong Delta each year, and exploitation of groundwater is one of several factors causing it.

Quảng Ninh, one of the northern province with high potential in tourism, has gained much high achievement in economic development, but the poor still emerges somewhere.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Wednesday ordered the Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) to revoke the privilege blue plates of 516 cars owned by private businesses.

HCM City People’s Committee has developed a plan to improve the quality of city leaders and officials, adding more youth to the management board between 2016 and 2020.

Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Francis Gurry vowed to keep assisting Việt Nam in the intellectual property field at a meeting with the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyễn Ngọc Thiện in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

Việt Nam’s Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training of Cambodia signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on labour co-operation in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

Đào Thanh Chiến, a university graduate from central Thanh Hóa Province, earns a monthly average of VNĐ8 million (US$355) selling ice tea and driving a motorbike taxi, not from working as a public official as he wished after graduating from the university.

Four cities in Việt Nam – Huế, Đà Nẵng, Hội An and Đồng Hà – have agreed to enter World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF)’s One Planet City Challenge programme to show how cities can be a hub for creativity, ambition and innovation in dealing with climate change.