After her first child died when she was just five months old, Nguyễn Thị Th., a nurse from northern Thanh Hóa Province’s Quảng Xương District, gave birth to a healthy baby girl.

Shortage of funds and human resources are being blamed for the loose management of several plant protection products and in the south.

In Việt Nam, getting into a university can be considered a national obsession. However, after each cut-throat university entrance competition, the number of students remaining until graduation steadily declining over the years have become a concern for educators.

The Ministry of Public Security is setting up a national data system about population to manage and supply basic information about residents exactly and consistently via their personal numbers.

Taxation and customs general departments must simplify their administrative procedures and eliminate unnecessary licences to attract more overseas Vietnamese investors, experts said.

The centralised bidding process to procure medical equipment and other supplies for public hospitals in the capital city is floundering on disagreements over quality and pricing, local reports say.

Commuters in central QuảngTrị Province are risking their lives commuting on old, unsafe bridges, which have been weakened by recent floods in the locality.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President Xi Jinping and Chairwoman of the Việt Nam National Assembly Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân attended an inaugural ceremony for the Việt Nam – China Friendship Palace in Hà Nội on November 12.

More than 190 households from the Mông ethnic group in Ea Rớt village, in the Krông Bông District of Central Highlands Province of Đắk Lắk have gained access to electricity and clean water thanks to a solar energy system supported by the Green Innovation and Development Centre (Green ID).