Việt Nam News

Almost 340 Vietnamese citizens have been brought home safely from the UK on a repatriation flight that touched down in Việt Nam on Thursday.

The Ministry of Transport has removed a provision which mandates motorbikes' running lights to be always on during daytime in its draft revised Law on Road Traffic.

At the age of 30, she weighs 15kg and is confined to a wheelchair but sets a bright example for people with disabilities with a "down but not out" spirit.

The 229 pregnant women are among 343 Vietnamese repatriated from Taiwan (China) due to the COVID-19 pandemic on May 29.

Farmers in the south-central province of Bình Thuận in areas without public irrigation systems have dug ponds, built small reservoirs, and installed efficient irrigation systems as drought occurs during the dry season.

The risk of Covid-19 spreading at or near border areas still exists despite border checkpoints, according to Trần Đắc Phu, a senior advisor at the Public Health Emergency Operations Centre at the Ministry of Health.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tiền Giang is speeding up the project to repair an eroded sea dyke that prevent saltwater erosion on its eastern coast. 

In the past two days, doctors have gradually lowered his extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) settings.

Four COVID-19 patients who returned to Việt Nam from Russia last month and received treatment at Thái Bình Province General Hospital were given the all-clear on Wednesday.

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