The People’s Court of Biên Hòa City yesterday opened a criminal trial against two people for charges related to the collapse of the Ghềnh Railway Bridge in southern Đồng Nai Province, but quickly closed the court to allow time to collect more information about the case.

In order to reduce pressure placed on central hospitals, the basic medical services package at commune-level medical facilities will be implemented from December, 2017.

Children at kindergartens in 41 out of 63 provinces and cities studied English in the 2016-2017 academic year, an increase of 20 areas compared to the 2013-2014 period, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Director of the General Hospital in northern Hòa Bình Province on Tuesday dismissed news on social media that the hospital was irresponsible in compensating eight families of kidney patients who died in May while receiving dialysis at the hospital.

President Trần Đại Quang attended the National Solidarity Festival 2017 in Tân Hưng Commune, in the northern province of Bắc Giang yesterday.

Four river-side houses in Phú Bình Hamlet in Vĩnh Bình Commune in the southern province of Bến Tre collapsed into Cổ Chiên River on Monday night as a 300-m section of local dyke broke.

President Trần Đại Quang yesterday urged the Hà Nội Medical University to continuously strive to become a leading medical training and research centre in Việt Nam.

A medical specialist training programme was launched in Hải Phòng City on Monday for 19 medical graduates who volunteer to go work in remote localities of the country. 

A workshop was held in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế on Monday to look into the outcomes of the trial remediation of dioxin using microbial technology at A Sho airfield in A Lưới District.