It is necessary to address health financing issues and strengthen health systems against the growing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) epidemic, which has become a growing global concern, according to Việt Nam’s Ministry of Health.

The municipal administration of HCM City aims to keep the rate of overweight and obese children under five years at less than 12 per cent by 2020.

More than 1,200 healthcare managers will need new jobs when provincial centres for preventive health, HIV/AIDS, malaria and others are merged into one general Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in each province, as required by the Ministry of Health by 2021.

The central city plans to install security camera systems at 153 sites in serving for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Summit in 2017 and public security.

The southern province of Đồng Nai is worried about the increasing number of doctors quitting jobs at public hospitals to work at private ones for better income.

The mutual recognition of test results at 38 central hospitals in Hà Nội has been implemented since August 1^st. More than half of the month has passed; however, this procedure has showed humble impacts.

The People’s Court in Hà Nôị has sentenced four men to death for illegally transporting 75 bricks of heroin.

Electronic filing of intellectual property applications and its efforts to join the Hague Agreement were the two experiences Việt Nam chose to talk about at the 45^th meeting of the Intellectual Property Experts Group (IPEG) which opened in HCM City on Tuesday.

A Vietnamese expert addressed an APEC event yesterday on one of the region and world’s most significant demographic developments: rapidly aging populations.