Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu Province plans to build a new logistics centre and container port with total investment of VNĐ50,000 billion.

Hospitals in the southern region have admitted many patients diagnosed with hand-foot-mouth disease, measles or upper respiratory infections as the peak season (September and October) for contagious diseases has arrived.

Despite suffering from 90 per cent visual impairment, 37-year-old Trương Phước Khải of Hậu Giang Province in the Mekong Delta has a passion for making books.

Bạch Đằng Trading-Service Joint Stock Company on Thursday proposed restoring an old 84-km section of Tháp Chàm- Đà Lạt railway, with total investment of more than VNĐ8.2 trillion (US$351.7 million) in the form of a public-private-partnership (PPP).

There is a Vietnamese saying about parents’ care-giving: “When young, one relies on one’s father, and when old, one relies on one’s children”.

The HCM City fire brigade has called on people running shops at home to take proper preventive measures against fire.

The Ministry of Communication and Information has given licences to four publishing houses o compile and publish textbooks, increasing the number of textbook publishers to five.

Vietnamtourism-Hanoi Joint Stock Company is planning to launch a new city bus tour on October 10.

Hoài Nhơn District's health centre is seen as an exemplary model amongst its kind in the south central province of Bình Định thanks to its efforts in streamlining operation, efficient use of medical equipment and facilities, and ensuring the quality in the delivery of healthcare services for a population of 230,000. Electronic medical records of patients has started to be implemented at the centre. The number of patient visits to the centre is increasing on a year-on-year basis, helping to reduce the load of patients at provincial-level hospitals. — VNA/VNS Photos Dương Ngọc