More than 27,000 female workers have been provided information about sexual and reproductive healthcare and family planning as the result of the Business Partnership Platform (BPP) funded by the Australian government.

The Natural Disaster Prevention and Search and Rescue Service Committee in the southernmost province of Cà Mau has called for help in the search for six missing fishermen.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has decided to launch an inspection on the printing and distributing of textbooks for 2018-2019 academic year.

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.