Việt Nam News

Việt Nam would pay the Chinese contractor 95 percent of the value of the contract for the Cát Linh-Hà Đông urban railway project when the project is completed and passes checks, Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyễn Ngọc Đông said at the Government’s regular press conference on Tuesday.

A total of 93 outstanding students from universities and colleges in Hà Nội and neighbouring provinces on Tuesday received scholarships for 2019-20 school year.

The most critical COVID-19 patient in Việt Nam is nodding, smiling and evening shaking hands with healthcare workers.

Young doctors who volunteer to work at district-level health facilities in provinces across the country have made significant changes to the public health care sector.

Việt Nam needs to train more nurses starting now since it has been forecast that, with its ageing population, there will be a shortage of 40,000-50,000 of them by 2030.

Experts said remote health examination and treatment was an effective measure to raise work effectiveness in grassroots levels while reducing the burden on upper-level hospitals.

Nguyễn Thi Lan Hương, a labour expert and a former Director of the Institute for Labour Science, in the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, talks to the newspaper Countryside and Agriculture about Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc’s decision to delay the pay rise for all public employees and Government officials in 2020

HCM City has reached its goal to have 20 doctors per 10,000 people after implementation of a five-year programme on improving the quality of health care services for local residents.

The explosion was triggered by a bolt of lightning.  

No new cases reported on Tuesday evening

Nguyễn Văn Phố declared that while working in Angola, he had met a contractor named Anh who offered VNĐ1.2 million (US$51.7) to him to transport a piece of luggage with those objects to Việt Nam.

Five COVID-19 patients, including one treated at HCM City’s Hospital of Tropical Diseases, and four others treated at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases have recovered on Tuesday morning, bringing Việt Nam’s total cases being given the all-clear to 298.

The health ministry’s Medical Services Administration will partner with eight local and international NGOs in rehabilitation activities to improve life quality and community integration of the disabled in Việt Nam as part of an MoU signed on Tuesday in Hà Nội.

Cabinet members have begun reviewing the national socio-economic situation in May – the first month after the social distancing measures were lifted and the economy entered the “new normal” period

Two people have died and another is missing after an explosion at stone quarry triggered by a bold of lightning.

More heat waves are forecast to hit Việt Nam in June, mostly in the first two weeks.