Việt Nam Social Insurance is among the State-owned agencies that utilise technology most effectively in data management, Minister and Chairman of the Office of the Government Mai Tiến Dũng said yesterday.

Construction on a second facility for the Blood Transfusion Hematology Hospital started yesterday (Oct 17) in HCM City’s Bình Chánh Distrist.

Toyota Motors Việt Nam (TMV) yesterday granted scholarships worth VNĐ690 million to 115 excellent students from 16 universities nationwide.

A primary school built using funds from Azerbaijan’s Heydar Aliyev Foundation was inaugurated in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang Province’s Giáp Trung Commune on Wednesday.

Rescue ship SAR 413, belonging to Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No 3, took Joe Vanier, an ill 53-year-old Canadian man, to the mainland in the southern province of Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu at 7:45 am on Thursday.

Việt Nam had set up its fully integrated forestry information database, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) said at a conference in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

Police in the northern mountainous province of Bắc Kạn arrested four people for trafficking 198 cakes of heroin, weighs nearly 70 kilos, in Tú Trĩ Commune on Wednesday.

Individuals and organisations across the country have donated a total of nearly VNĐ3 trillion (US$129 million) to the Fund for the Poor and the Social Security Programme for the year.

One person was killed and 13 were injured in a shipping accident on Wednesday in the northern province of Quảng Ngãi.