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Nearly 53,000 people in HCM City received free blood-pressure screening under the Communities for Healthy Hearts programme, according to the city’s Department of Health.

The new emergency telephone number for child protection, 111, is expected to become operational in December.

Agricultural households, farms and co-operatives would get access to various funds if they upgrade into companies, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday.

Việt Nam’s sizeable trade in wild birds is going unchecked and could harm wild populations if not managed, a new study by wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC warns.

The central province of Quảng Nam will check on the illegal logging of 110ha of protected forest in Tiên Phước District’s Tiên Lãnh Commune.

According to the Vietnamese Embassy in Mexico, no Vietnamese citizens have injured by the earthquake there, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed yesterday. However, some houses of Vietnamese citizens were destroyed.

The Government Inspectorate of Việt Nam yesterday announced that it will launch a special inspection of the Ministry of Health, following revelations of fraud within the MoH’s pharmaceutical licensing process.

The Government’s decision two years ago to allow partial autonomy for a number of universities has helped them meet international standards and improve quality of training, according to a survey conducted by Ministry of Education and Training.