HCM City’s drug crime investigation sub-department (PC47) has uncovered a drug-trafficking ring, arresting two suspects and seizing heroin and ecstasy from them.

Hà Nội will stop operating five bus routes that serve cadres and civil servants travelling from Hà Đông to the centre of the capital from early next month.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has ordered the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan to co-operate with Japanese authorities to urgently clarify the cause of the death of Lê Thị Nhật Linh, 9, and arrest the culprit.

The Central Highlands provinces have good potential for growing macadamia, but more studies are needed to grow the nut, according to the Central Highlands Steering Committee.

The traditional use of pangolin scales to treat blocked milk ducts is touted by a number of websites online, but doctors of traditional medicine say scientific research proves that it is ineffective.

Microsoft Việt Nam and the Audio Books Charity Fund for the Blind launched a year-long ICT Training programme for the visually impaired in HCM City on March 25.

A new system, implemented by the city’s Department of Health, hopes to encourage patients to voice their dissatisfaction with hospitals in order to improve the quality of care.

Shortage of funding and trained personnel, as well as social discrimination, are undermining Việt Nam’s hard-won success in combatting the scourge of tuberculosis.

The Ministry of Health will soon spell out what medicines and medical techniques should be used by ward- and commune-level health centres around the country to make the family medicine model more efficient and reassure patients.