HCM City agencies have taken measures to combat floods after heavy rains flooded several areas in the city on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Japan’s JICA lamented the slow payment of the Vietnamese Government to its official development assistance (ODA) projects’ contractors, saying they were becoming ‘exacerbated’.

Farmers in the central provinces of Quảng Nam and Quảng Ngãi have been struggling to sell enough watermelons to turn a profit, as the price of the farm produce sharply dropped from VNĐ7,000 ($0.3) per kilo last month to VNĐ1,000 ($0.04) or VNĐ1,200 ($0.05) per kilo in recent days.

HIV/AIDS patients in Đồng Nai Province will be treated at local health clinics to ensure they do not give up treatment, according to the province Department of Health.

An elderly woman was killed when a fire broke out near Vĩnh Tuy Bridge in Hà Nội early morning on Thursday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc underlined the need to focus resources on tackling climate change in the Mekong Delta region.

The incident rate of cardiac myxoma is from 0.2 to 0.3 per 1000 people. Meanwhile, symptoms of the disease are commonly vague, even the first symptom can be a stroke which may lead to death.

As many as 50 residents in HCM City’s District 2 aired their grievances at a meeting held yesterday to discuss land reclamation and site clearance compensation for households that must move to make way for continued construction of the Thủ Thiêm new urban area in the district.

Many private pre-schools in Hà Nội are open and operating illegally regardless of regular inspections conducted by the city’s education authority.