The HCM City authorities plan to build a bridge across the Vàm Thuật River to link districts 12 and Bình Thạnh, according to the city’s Department of Transport.

Many key routes in Hà Nội’s gateway have been downgraded and posed high risks of traffic accidents due to ineffective maintenance work and repair.

HCM City plans to strengthen links with provinces that supply it farm produce to improve oversight at their points of origin, officials said.

Doctors from the Việt Nam – Germany Hospital has conducted the country’s first successful surgery on a female patient with the HIV virus who was suffering from type A aortic dissection.

A forum was held in Hà Nội yesterday to provide Australia an insight into Việt Nam’s energy industry and to help domestic firms explore the possibility of co-operation with Australian partners.

A recent survey by the Việt Nam General Confederation of Labour conduct in March and April on 2,500 workers in eight different working groups revealed that workers accepted the fact that they have to work overtime for extra money, not because they want to.

Diagnoses of occupational diseases are on the rise in Viet Nam, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA).

Their huge workload, limited teaching hours and large numbers of students in classes prevent teachers from improving their classroom-based assessment practices, considered vital to improving English teaching, an expert has said.

The Ministry of Public Security’s Police Investigation Agency has prosecuted Phí Thái Bình, former chairman of the Vinaconex board of directors, for violating construction regulations and causing serious consequences.