Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc agreed to a plan to hire foreign consultants or a joint-team, including domestic and foreign consultants, to verify the pre-feasibility study of the HCM City’s urban metro-line No 5 project.

Two access points to public beaches will be constructed on Hồ Xuân Hương street and Ariyana Beach Resort.

Southern Đồng Nai province has announced the investigation results of the concrete floor collapse, which killed two persons and injured two others at a construction site on May 15.

Nguyễn Ngọc Bảo, Chairman of the Việt Nam Co-operative Alliance, speaks to the newspaper Công Thương (Trade and Industry) about how trade promotion can ensure co-operatives find a market for their products

Two men were arrested on May 14 by HCM City police in a stabbing incident on May 13 which killed two men who were part of a team of volunteer “knights” who protect local residents. Three other men were injured.

The passage in and out of Bến Lội – Bình Châu fishing port in Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu Province is thickly silted, affecting hundreds of fishing boats.

The country’s infertility rate currently stands at about 8 per cent of Vietnamese couples, experts say, indicating that infertility is a major task for the obstetrics and gynecology sector in Việt Nam.

Việt Nam is facing challenges keeping pace with other countries in the application of stem cell therapy, many doctors say.   

Việt Nam’s grassroots healthcare system is failing to win public trust, resulting in overcrowding at provincial-level hospitals and hampering efforts to ensure universal health coverage in the country.