Việt Nam’s new law on State Compensation Liability is expected to create transparent mechanisms for compensating people mistreated by authorities, Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyễn Khánh Ngọc said yesterday.

With traditional medicine still popular in Việt Nam, many breast cancer patients use unscientific and useless herbal cures to fight tumours, leaving them with more dangerous cancer and often severe side effects, according to doctors.

After seeing parents grieving the deaths of children who drown every year during the flood season, a resident of the Mekong Delta province of Đồng Tháp Province decided to volunteer as a swimming coach.

Phan Thanh Tiền can now focus on his work at a garment company in HCM City’s Củ Chi District as his 4 ½-year-old son is being taken care of at an officially licensed public kindergarten in the industrial park where he works.

The Việt Nam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) yesterday proposed not to increase the regional minimum wage next year.

Việt Nam’s medium-term economic outlook remains positive, with GDP growth rate projected to accelerate slightly to 6.3 per cent in 2017, according to the latest World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, released yesterday.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to speed up resettlement of residents living in landslide areas along the river and canals.

Doctors at Trưng Vương Hospital in HCM City have performed their first ever surgery to reduce the curvature in the spine of a patient with Marfan syndrome.

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