The ministries of Public Security and Justice should make clear that drug addiction is a disease and social evil, the vice chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Social Affairs said at a two-day conference on legal policy on drug and HIV/ AIDS prevention opened on Thursday in HCM City.
An international savings, retirement and insurance business, the Aviva Group, has donated over VNĐ1.4 billion (US$60,000) to the Việt Nam Red Cross Society to support an initiative to help people recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
All the prosecuted persons are residents of Hoành and Đồng Mít hamlets of Đồng Tâm. Among them, 25 face murder charges while the four others are accused of resisting on-duty officers.
As temperatures rise across Việt Nam, spare a thought for those in hospital right now. Doctors, nurses, patients and their relatives are all feeling a little hot under the collar. One hospital in Hà Nội is doing its best to work around the sweltering heat, and make everyone there as comfortable as possible.
All passengers wore protective suits, filled in compulsory health declarations, and have been quarantined at facilities for 14 days. The check-in counters and airport terminals were also later sterilised.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Thursday donated three Ohmni Robots to the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases to help protect frontline doctors and nurses from COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.
The 2020 ASEAN-Japan Cyber Exercise focused on solutions and information-sharing mechanisms to deal with fake websites.
The HCM City Department of Education and Training and city schools have been training teachers, choosing textbooks, and preparing facilities to carry out a new nationwide training programme in the 2020-2021 academic year required by the Ministry of Education and Training.
