More than 90 per cent of HCM City’s CO2 emissions in 2013 came from transportation and stationary energy, which refers to fuel consumption for electricity generation, manufacturing, construction and others like domestic heating.

HCM City is considering an eight-year plan to reduce the exploitation of groundwater resources in an aim to protect residents’ health and avoid risks of land subsidence.

More than 40 per cent of students in big cities such as Hà Nội and HCM City suffer from eye refractive defect, in which myopia accounts for two-thirds of cases,  according to the statistic of health sector.

Việt Nam led the Asia Pacific region’s most generous market, with 78.5 per cent of consumers giving to charities.

Nearly 400 primary school students in the southern province of Hậu Giang underwent medical examinations yesterday morning after drinking free milk at school, 30 of them were hospitalised with symptoms of digestive disorder.

A man named Nam from Hà Nam Province called a taxi to take his father from the Việt Nam-Germany Hospital in Hà Nội to the nearby Hà Nội Heart Hospital for medical tests. However, taxi drivers in front of the building refused to make the trip due to the short distance between the two hospitals.

The daily lives of more than 1,000 families in Hà Nội’s Chương Mỹ District are returning to normal thanks to the resumption of power supply.

The citizens of Đà Nẵng have been asked to smile during the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Eonomic Leaders' Meeting on November 5-11.

The HCM City Department of Planning and Investment has asked the city’s People’s Committee to approve a new flood-prevention project funded by Denmark.