Việt Nam News

HCM City is carrying out multiple methods and programmes to reduce air pollution and CO2 emissions in its aim to create a "clean, green and beautiful" city.

The targets are set in a 2020-2025 national plan on African swine fever prevention that has been approved by deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc had a working session with authorities from the northern province of Ninh Bình on Sunday to check the implementation of socio-economic development in 2020, including the disbursement of public investment.

Bến Tre Province authorities have sought VNĐ250 billion (US$10.7 million) from the Government to build reservoirs to store freshwater and avoid a shortage due to drought and saltwater intrusion in rivers.

The two women returned from Russia to Việt Nam on July 9 on Vietnam Airlines flight VN5062 and entered the country via Cần Thơ International Airport in Cần Thơ Province.

The fourth victim from an accident in which a car fell into the sea on Friday night has died, said Trịnh Văn Mạnh, director of the Quảng Ninh Province General Hospital.

A Mexican woman died in a traffic accident at 9am on Sunday in Bò Liêm Village, Đồng Tâm Commune, Mai Châu District in the northern province of Hòa Bình.

Universities in Việt Nam should start preparing different scenarios to adapt if the country experiences new COVID-19 incidences in the community, said Dr Nguyễn Ngọc Điện, rector of Hoa Sen University.

Doctors at Hùng Vương and Thống Nhất hospitals in HCM City have performed emergency surgery on a pregnant woman who experienced life-threatening vaginal bleeding, saving the woman and her baby.

The Ministry of Public Security has decided to prosecute former Minister of Industry and Trade Vũ Huy Hoàng on charges of violating regulations on the management and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness, Tô Ân Xô, chief of the ministry’s Office, said on Saturday.

The pilot labeled Việt Nam’s most critical ill COVID-19 patient has been discharged from hospital and is heading home to Scotland.

Six people have died and another 30 injured after a coach veered off a road and plunged 20 metres down a steep hillside.

The conference was organised by the Office of the Government of Việt Nam and Huế People’s Committee in collaboration with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

A new high-speed boat service between HCM City and outlying Củ Chi District through Bình Dương Province was launched on Friday (July 10).