Thousands of gout patients with serious complications have been examined at the Polyclinics of the Gout Institute over the past 10 years, pointing to an alarming situation, according to doctors at the French-Vietnamese Gout Research Center.

The latest trends in language teaching and learning in the digital age will be the main topic of discussion at the Việt Nam-USA Society English Centers’ annual Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference held on July 21 at the White Palace Convention Center in HCM City’s Phú Nhuận District.

Cars will be banned from selected roads in downtown HCM City to ensure relocation of Nhà Bè – Tao Đàn underground cable systems that cross Bến Nghé Canal.

The HCM City administration has agreed on the World Bank (WB)’s request for terminating a project on water drainage and pollution reduction of Thẩm Lương–Bến Cát–Rạch Nước Lên canal.

Children of Quảng Phú Commune in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế can enjoy a library facility at the home of a local elderly farmer, who loves reading and poetry.

In HCM City, the number of people brought into the social, health, and unemployment insurance net increased by 10.3 per cent year-on-year to 142,943 in the first five months this year, according to the Việt Nam Social Insurance Agency.

Thousands of households in northern mountainous province of Hà Giang have been assigned forests along with commitment to protect them. Every month, they receive payments for forest environmental services, which help them to improve livelihoods, the Nông Thôn Ngày Nay (Countryside Today) newspaper reported.

A taxi driver from the central province of Nghệ An Province’s has turned his house into a first-aid station so that he can offer timely help to traffic accident victims.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has exhorted the Vietnamese-German University to become a leading research hub not only at the national level but also the regional and international levels.