The Ministry of Health on Wednesday held a seminar on “Smart Healthcare in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution” as part of a four-day Pharmed & Healthcare Vietnam expo that featured the latest cancer treatments and smart advances in healthcare systems.

 A proposal to build a north-south axial road in HCM City running through districts 4, 7 and Nhà Bè through a public – private – partnership (PPP) has been approved by the City People’s Committee.

For the last two months, people have been flocking to the Sông Hinh Hydropower plant’s reservoir in central province of Phú Yên to find black stones which can be sold for VNĐ 4 million per kilo.

Large areas of sea in the central province of Hà Tĩnh are being polluted by untreated waste from local shrimp farming activities.

Government Decree 46/2016 made wearing seatbelts mandatory for passengers in the backseats of cars from August 2016. Violators can be fined VNĐ100,000-200,000 (US$4-8). The old regulation only required the driver and the front-seat passenger to wear seatbelts

Việt Nam has recorded 35 earthquakes of magnitude 2.5-4.5 so far this year, according the Earthquake and Tsunami Warning Centre under the Institute of Geophysics.

The Vietnam Food Administration (VFA) under the Ministry of Health has issued an alert after finding that a number of websites promoting dietary supplements and health products violated regulations on advertising.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) said on Thursday that a 24-year-old man has been given a 12-month flight ban after telling security officers at Đà Nẵng Airport that there was a bomb in his checked luggage.

Đắk Lắk Province, the country largest coffee producer, planned to replace 4,259 ha of old coffee trees with new ones in the rainy season,  but farmers have reached only 50 per cent of the target, mostly due to lower prices for coffee beans, according to Việt Nam News Agency.