The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has requested localities to encourage holding talks in industrial and processing zones to promptly respond to issues faced by labourers and prevent labour disputes and strikes.

The number of foreigners working in Việt Nam has increased significantly over the last ten years, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) reported.

More than 50 public hospitals in Hà Nội and HCM City have begun increasing hospital fees for patients who do not hold health insurance cards from this month.

A ceremony was held at the headquarters of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment (MINCEX) on Monday to mark the delivery of 5,000 tones of Vietnamese rice to Cuba.

More than 500 doctors and health officials participated in a series of recent seminars on updates on national guidelines on cervical cancer screening.

Mobile phone users must submit portrait photos when registering for accounts, an official from the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) said.

A pilot programme of the Ministry of Health (MoH) to combine tuberculosis and HIV treatments for TB/HIV co-infected patients in medical centres at district and commune levels have yielded positive results, experts said.

With a growing number of medical tourists who combine travel with medical care coming to HCM City in recent years, lucrative medical tourism needs concerted efforts by various official agencies and travel firms to realise its huge potential, experts have said.

Language barrier is the biggest obstacle in investigation of crimes involving foreign suspects, said officials of the HCM City People’s Procuracy.