The Standing Office of the Central Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention sent a directive to the steering committees for natural disaster prevention, search and rescue of coastal provinces and cities on preventive measures for a tropical depression.

More than 833,000 doses of Indian-made ComBE Five vaccine will be imported to Việt Nam by mid-June, said Vũ Tuấn Cường, head of the health ministry’s Drug Administration.

The Thăng Long Project Management Board sent the fesibility study report of the 64km-highway connecting northern Ninh Bình province and central Thanh Hoá province to the transport ministry for approval.

The Information Technology Department under the Ministry of Health (MOH) launched new software on June 14 designed to compile a comprehensive database of electronic medical records.

HCM City authorities have asked the Government to consider allowing the city and provincial level administrative agencies to approve metro projects to ensure that construction remains on schedule.

The HCM City People’s Court on June14 sent a case related to fraud and irresponsible lending practices at the Central Sài Gòn branch of the Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) back to the People’s Procuracy for further investigation.

Thousands of containers containing recyclable used materials are now pilling up at seaports in coastal localities of Hải Phòng, HCM and Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu, reducing productivity and efficiency of ports’ operation and negatively affecting export – import activities of Vietnamese enterprises.

The State-run Vietnam News Agency (VNA) won 17 out of 67 prizes of the National External Information Service Awards 2017 which were announced at a ceremony held at VNA’s headquarters in Hà Nội on Thursday. 

Local households assigned to plant mangrove trees and breed aquatic species in forested areas are earning higher incomes in two coastal districts of Kiên Giang Province.