Việt Nam News

The first set of Grade 1 textbooks written by a private team of authors was introduced on Tuesday afternoon in Hà Nội.

The HCM City police have carried out inspections of herbal medicine stores as part of a campaign to combat trafficking of Chinese traditional medicines into the country.

Around 60 per cent of people who have contracted TB have already been detected, according to estimates from the HCM City Health Association. 

The ministry held a conference on December 14 to discuss how to attract foreigners, Vietnamese living overseas and affluent locals to Vietnamese hospitals in case of ailments.

The northern mountainous province of Lào Cai was set to become a bridge connecting economic and external relations between Việt Nam, ASEAN countries and the southwest of China, Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng said last week.

Representatives of co-operatives and groups of ethnic minority women gathered at a workshop yesterday to discuss using technology of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 for business and poverty reduction.

Việt Nam hopes to receive further assistance from the World Health Organisation (WHO) to improve the country’s healthcare system, including disease prevention, primary health care and building healthcare law, said Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam.

A new vaccine production technology from a British university has been transferred to Việt Nam which may help lower the cost and shorten production times.

Last month, two pregnant women died, and one was left in a critical condition after receiving injections of anaesthetic for C-sections.

Hòa Bình hydropower dam, the largest in Việt Nam and second in Southeast Asia, has posted its lowest water level since operations started, triggering fears of drought and electricity shortages.

The body of the last of the three divers killed during a salvage operation on a sunken container vessel in HCM City has been found and retrieved, the municipal port authority confirmed on Monday night.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Sóc Trăng has efficiently implemented support policies meant to lift its ethnic Khmer people out of poverty and improve their lives.

HCM City plans to integrate half of its online public services on its new national public service portal by 2020 in an attempt to further simplify administrative procedures, the city’s People’s Committee has said.

There were not a single social housing project in HCM City this year, and with support funds for them being limited, there is a fear the situation could continue, experts said.

HCM City and the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta’s 12 provinces and a city for the first time inked a comprehensive agreement for tourism development at the second HCM City and Mekong Delta Tourism Connection Forum held in Bạc Liêu Province last Saturday (Dec 14).

The Ministry of Planning and Investment has proposed withholding investment next year for projects that had been slow to disburse their allocated funding in 2019.

A highly anticipated trial in which two former communications ministers are facing bribery charges officially began on Monday and was due to last until the end of the year.

Farmers in Vĩnh Long Province in Mekong Delta have been busily rushing to fight saline intrusion in order to protect their crops.