The annual National Young Informatics Contest for students is being held at Lê Quý Đôn High School in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province from August 9-10.

The Drug Administration under the Ministry of Health has asked rabies vaccine suppliers and importers to ensure stockpiles are built up to meet increasing demand.

An endangered green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) has been released to the sea after being captured and kept at a house in the central city, a source from the city’s sub-department of Aquatic Resource Protection said yesterday.

Doctors from the provincial Quảng Nam General Hospital successfully removed a number of pieces of metal from the bronchi of a patient through endoscopy surgery on August 9.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to conduct a comprehensive inspection on the import of scrap materials, as the volume of second-hand products imported into Việt Nam has rocketed in recent times, raising concerns about how the scrap industry affects the environment. 

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam has asked Hà Nội’s Department of Transport to clarify the information about some driving training centres ignoring regulations by accepting bribes to guarantee success on theory tests.

Railway companies in the south will start selling Lunar New Year 2019 tickets – the biggest and longest holiday of Vietnamese people, falling in early February of 2019 – starting on October 1 this year.

 The Ministry of Transport (MoT) on Wednesday, decided to allocate more than VNĐ23 billion (US$989,000) to help the northern province of Yên Bái restore its road systems damaged by floods last month.

 The northern coastal city of Hải Phòng plans to mobilise investment from the private sector to build eight new coach stations in the period from 2018-20.