Typhoon Sơn Tinh – the third typhoon attacking the East Sea this year is predicted to make its landfall on provinces from Thái Bình to Hà Tĩnh on Wednesday night with the strongest wind near its eye reaching 75km per hour.

The Forest Protection Department of Đồng Nai Province has asked permission from the province’s People Committee to erect more electric fence systems to resolve conflicts among residents and elephants in the area.

The central province would close or remove the polluted cement plant in Bình Đông commune in Bình Sơn district if the plant’s managing board does not take any measure to improve the quality of air and dust emission in the coming time.

The health care system of traditional Vietnamese medicine has been expanded, with 58 out of 63 provinces and cities nationwide having traditional medicine hospitals, participants heard at a workshop yesterday in Hà Nội.

Provinces in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta are taking measures to prevent the spread of swine flu A/H1N1 in the region.

The third annual Changing Cancer Care, a global challenge aimed at inspiring non-treatment ideas that may improve cancer care for patients, has begun.

An earthquake, measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale, hit the district of Nam Trà My in the central province of Quảng Nam around 7am yesterday morning (July 17), but no damage or casualties were reported.

Police of Hanoi's Hoan Kiem district handed over Chong Hyun Chul, a man wanted by South Korea and Interpol, to South Korea's police for illegally doing business and illegally examining and treating patients in a medical setting.

A tropical low-pressure system has gained strength and become a tropical storm as of Tuesday morning.