A 50-year-old patient who received the first living donor liver transplant by doctors at the HCM City University Medical Centre, with medical assistance from South Korean’s ASAN Medical Centre, is recovering well more than a month after surgery.

Việt Nam really appreciates the support of the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation (SEAMEO) centres that annually provide short-term training course for Vietnamese teachers over the past years.

The city plans to open 65 routes for bidding by the year 2020, with the contracts lasting for a term of five years instead of the one as present.

Phạm Xuân Hòe, deputy director of the Banking Strategy Institute (under the State Bank of Việt Nam), speaks to Thời báo Kinh doanh (Business Times) about measures to help people living in remote areas get access to digital financial services.

HCM City has begun construction of new facilities at the city’s Heart Institute on July 24 in an effort to cope with overcrowding.

The People’s Court in HCM City yesterday (July 24) resumed the trial of Phạm Công Danh, former chairman of the Việt Nam Construction Bank’s (VNCB) board of directors and former general director of the Thiên Thanh Group, and other defendants charged with “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management causing severe consequences” at VNCB.

The Japanese coast guard ship Kojima docked at Tiên Sa Port yesterday for a visit to the central city of Đà Nẵng.

The Australian Government yesterday (July 24) kicked off its Gender Responsive Equitable Agriculture and Tourism (GREAT) programme in northwest Việt Nam to create jobs and improve incomes for local women.

A new programme aimed at empowering women, creating jobs and improving incomes for local women was launched on Tuesday in the northwestern province of Sơn La.