The HCM City People’s Committee on July 24 signed a co-operation agreement with the Việt Nam National University HCM City until 2020 to work on eight city development projects.

Twenty-six workers, including one Vietnamese from Hoàng Anh Gia Lai Joint-Stock Company, will be removed by helicopter from a flooded area this morning after the collapse of the Xepian-Xe Nam Noy hydropower dam in the Lao province of Attapeu on Monday (July 23).

As of Wednesday morning, three people had died and nine others injured in a knife attack that occurred on Tuesday in Hưng Hội Commune in the Mekong Delta Province of Bạc Liêu’s Vĩnh Lợi District, an official said.

Experts discussed issues related to conditions and factors to promote natural forest restoration in localities, and contribute to ensuring ecological security and minimising damage caused by natural disasters and floods during a conference held yesterday in Hà Nội.

The 20-year resistance war against America left nearly 850,000 Vietnamese soldiers dead and at least 300,000 of them may never be identified and returned to their living relatives.

More than 90 per cent of dietary supplement producers in Việt Nam have not implemented Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), according to health officials, leading to fears that without gaining GMP certificates by July next year, their production would be halted.

A web page containing information on martyrs and where they are buried will be launched this Thursday.

Health experts have called on Health Ministry to add direct-acting antiviral Agents (DAAs) into list of drugs that public health insurance covers so that patients with Hepatitis C would be treated more effectively.

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.