Health Minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến yesterday ordered the immediate transfer of critically ill infants from a provincial hospital to centrally-administered ones.

The National Assembly (NA) will decide the fate of a future high-speed railway in Việt Nam in 2019 after the transport ministry completes a project report, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said this week.

The eighth National Congress of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) opened in Hà Nội yesterday with the participation of 1250 delegates including VBS dignitaries; monks and nuns; leaders and former leaders of the Party, State and Vietnam Fatherland Front and representatives of international organisations.

The Christian Fellowship Church of Việt Nam began its fifth congress at its headquarters in Thới Tam Thôn commune in HCM City’s Hóc Môn District yesterday.

Daily Limited Company, the operator of the delayed water bus service in HCM City, said the first boats would begin plying on November 25.

Disabled people do not benefit much from government incentive policies and social support.

FrieslandCampina Việt Nam has donated 24,000 glasses of milk worth VND180 million to school students in the central region, which was hit by the recent Typhoon Damrey.

Health Minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến said yesterday that non-infectious diseases were the leading cause of death in Việt Nam and had become a socio-economic burden. She was speaking at a national scientific conference yesterday on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam (middle) and Vietnamese and Korean experts at the launching ceremony of the Việt Nam-Korea Institute of Science and Technology (V-KIST), held by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) in Hà Nội yesterday.