The HCM City health sector is focused on increasing the number of doctors and hospital beds per 10,000 population to 18 and 42 this year, a health official said.

City Paediatrics Hospital in HCM City’s Bình Chánh District has set up the first nuclear medicine unit for treating children in the south.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình has asked relevant agencies to tighten regulations on traffic order and safety to prevent the existence of unauthorised vehicles.

Fire broke out at a thermal power plant in the southern province of Trà Vinh on Wednesday morning. There was no immediate report of casualties or injuries in the blaze.

A drug dealer of a cocaine ring, who underwent plastic surgery for six years to escape the police, has been arrested.

Police in the southern Bình Dương Province arrested two persons on Wednesday during a car chase, which left two policemenseriously injured.

When it comes to making use of resources, we are all looking for new ways to organise society. There is no model to duplicate, so we need to develop our own, stressed Swedish Ambassador for Climate Change, Lars Ronnas, at a press conference hosted by the Swedish Embassy in Hà Nội on Tuesday.

Beginning this month, doctors must write the identification number of a parent or supervisor on all prescriptions for outpatients under 72 months old, according to a new decree issued by Ministry of Health (MoH).

A project on preserving and developing two valuable species of medicinal plants is being implemented in the Pù Hu Nature Reserve in the central province of Thanh Hóa, said the reserve’s management board.