More than 22,500 units in Hà Nội were found to violating food safety regulations this year after authorised inspectors examined 110,930 units, according to the city’s Health Department.

The HCM City People’s Court on Wednesday sentenced 15 defendants to between five years and 16 years in prison for terrorism.

Despite fully knowing that HIV/AIDS, dangerous as it may be, can not be easily transmitted just by touching or direct talking, but in most people’s minds, it’s better just to stay as far away from the ‘doomed’ patients. Worse, those open-minded unaffiliated ones who don’t shy away from such common ‘interactions’ with HIV/AIDS patients could, in turn, face some wariness from the less open-minded crowds.

Many hospitals in HCM City use software to monitor the prescription of antibiotics to ensure they are not abused causing bacteria to mutate to become antibiotic-resistant, a major global health problem, including in Việt Nam.

Planning experts have urged authorities in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng to preserve the special urban heritage of Đà Lạt City.

The Government has approved an adjusted construction master plan for the HCM City Zone to 2030 with a vision to 2050.

Though Việt Nam has a low fataltity rate among patients with dengue fever, the Ministry of Health has instructed hospitals nationwide to try to further reduce the number of deaths to the lowest possible number.

A drawing exhibition on safe vegetables opened yesterday in Hà Nội in an aim to promote the reliability of agricultural products in the northern region of Việt Nam.

The railway project management unit of the Cát Linh-Hà Đông urban railway has asked the police to identify the vandal who drew graffiti on the train.