The HCM City People’s Committee has urged all districts to conduct programmes on smart city development, with specific targets, roadmaps and implementation measures suited to the characteristics of individual locality.
Việt Nam has basically achieved the target of health insurance for all, but it still needs to further expand the coverage of social insurance, according to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.
All 63 provinces and cities across the country have allowed students at different educational level to remain off from school to stop the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, as Chairman of ASEAN in 2020, issued a statement on ASEAN’s joint response to the outbreak of the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Vietnamese businesses have voiced their concerns over the struggle to cope with the coronavirus due to a lack of raw materials. Such shortage would result in businesses having to temporarily suspend operations, with workers being laid off.
HCM City is taking steps to improve road and water drainage infrastructure to mitigate its traffic and flooding problems.
Tests for coronavirus could be run at provincial hospitals in a few days time, said Professor Đặng Đức Anh, director of the National Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has asked all cities and provinces to focus on correctly disposing discarded face masks, especially in quarantine sites, in an attempt to stop the spread of COVID-2019.
As of February 14, 41 provinces and cities had planned to reopen on Monday following the Ministry of Education and Training’s statement that provinces and cities where COVID-19 has not appeared could open after two weeks off.
District authorities in HCM City will speed up site clearance compensation and resettlement for households affected by construction of the city's Metro Line No 2 project by June.
Vietnamese localities said that the situation in the country so far remains firmly under control.
Environmental pollution has affected dozens of households living near a landfill with huge mounds of stinking rubbish in Chợ Đồn District, Bắc Kạn Province.
Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City is the first hospital in the country to use an MRI-ultrasound fusion biopsy to improve the accuracy of prostrate cancer diagnosis.
Erosion along riverbanks in the southern province of Bình Dương’s Tân Uyên Township has become more serious in recent years and greatly affected local residents.
A man charged with the illegal trading of human organs was sentenced to 12 years and six months in prison by the Hà Nội People's Court in a first-instance trial on Thursday.
Account of a Vietnamese - Japanese family, who bought tickets to travel on the Diamond Princess*, a luxury cruise liner that has been quarantined in Yokohama since February 4 but missed the trip as they did not have a visa to disembark in Hong Kong.
More than 160 health workers have been mobilised to Bình Xuyên District, Vĩnh Phúc Province, to help with the fight against the acute respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19), the provincial Health Department said.
