Vietnamese and foreign health experts are meeting at a two-day conference that began yesterday (July 6) at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City to discuss the latest techniques used to treat kidney stones and renal tumours.

Twenty-six households in Vầy Nưa Commune, Đà Bắc District, northern Hòa Bình Province, volunteered to hand over their electric systems used to illegally catch fish to commune authorities.

The Government held a meeting on Thursday to discuss urgent measures to limit illegal sand mining in the country, which has reached epidemic proportions in response to a boom in construction demand.

The 9th HCM City People’s Council closed its fifth session on Thursday, adopting 14 resolutions ranging from economic growth to free bus tickets for the elderly.

Promoting healthcare services at the grassroots level and bolstering preventive medicine should be the main task for Việt Nam’s healthcare sector over the coming years, said Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam.

HCM City authorities are calling for investment in the form of public private partnerships (PPP) to build golf courses, parks, trade centres or property projects on three closed landfill sites.

Business complains of excessive red tape on food safety

Bình Dương is the only province in the country with no poor or near-poor households based on the national multi-dimensional measure of poverty, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked the Việt Nam Southern Food Corporation (Vinafood 2) to review and punish individuals or groups associated with the corporation’s “mistakes” that have caused losses to the state budget.