All people who suffer from life-threatening diseases will be eligible for palliative care, with the care beginning as soon as their diseases are detected, due to a change in a national guidance on palliative care.

This year’s natural disasters in Việt Nam have caused much severer consequences than the first seven months of 2016.

Vũ Thị Lan had worked for 10 years at an electronic assembly factory in the Quang Minh Industrial Zone (IZ) when she received her pink slip in mid-April.

Early season flooding and heavy rainfall have severely damaged thousands of hectares of rice field in the Mekong Delta province of Long An. Water level in the province was 2.37m last Friday, some 1.53m higher than previous year’s figure with water level raising approximately 5-10cm every day.

A new centre that will offer rehabilitation and post-surgery care to Agent Orange victims will open by the end of the year in HCM City, according to the HCM City Association of Victims of Agent Orange.  

The Lao Minister of Labour and Social Welfare and Vietnamese Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affair agreed to boost the 2013 Việt Nam-Laos Labour Cooperation Pact and to search for the remains of Vietnamese martyrs and experts who died in Laos.

A handicapped man in a poor rural village of the south central province Bình Định has been giving extra classes for disadvantaged children in his hometown for the last 30 years, totally free of charge.

An additional VNĐ20 trillion (US$883 million) needed for infrastructure projects by 2020 will have to come from the city budget as well as from private sources, as disbursement of state budget funds remains slow, the deputy chairman of the city’s People’s Committee, Trần Vĩnh Tuyến, has said.

 A row of cheap rooms for rent run by Nguyễn Thế Hiệp, 70, in Hà Nội’s Đê La Thành Street, near the National Hospital of Pediatrics, has become the second home for dozens of relatives of children that treated in the hospital for a decade.