Việt Nam’s population sector faces numerous challenges, including different rates of fertility in different regions, severe gender imbalance, internal migration and population aging.

The number of patients infected with dengue fever has increased considerably in the central coastal province of Khánh Hòa in the final weeks of the year.

The HCM City People’s Court on Thursday sentenced Trần Phương Bình, former general director and vice chairman of Đông Á Bank’s (DAB) management board, to life in jail on the charges of “abusing power to appropriate assets”, and to 20 years in prison for “intentionally violating regulations on economic management, causing serious consequences”.

The central province of Quảng Nam’s waterway police have confiscated five boats along with specialised machines that were used to illegally suck sand from the Thu Bồn River.

The planting of genetically modified corn has been increasing the crops’ productivity, improving the income of farmers in northern Thái Nguyên Province and help reduce imports in the future, the provincial Sub-department of Plant Protection has said.

Authorities in Đắk Lắk Province have warned farmers not to expand the area under sacha inchi, also called wild peanut, since demand for it is not consistent.

Surgeons of Đức Giang General Hospital in Hà Nội successfully operated on a male patient with acute appendicitis last weekend, despite his internal organs being in different places than most people.

The HCM City Padiatrics No 2 Hospital and CHU Grenoble, a leading French university hospital, signed a co-operation agreement on training of paediatricians at the 7^th Việt Nam-France Pediatrics Conference that wrapped on Wednesday at the HCM City Paediatrics No 2 Hospital.

Multidimensional poverty (MDP) in Việt Nam witnessed a significant drop from 15.9 per cent in 2012 to 9.1 per cent in 2016 with some six million people escaping from poverty.