Quảng Ngãi Marine Port Authority yesterday organised a search and rescue drill at sea in Bình Thuận Commune, Bình Sơn District, central province of Quảng Ngãi.

A group of students from the Foreign Trade University of Hà Nội won first prize at the ‘Start-up Francophone 2018’ competition during the regional final round held on Friday in Hà Nội.

Kids at HCM City’s Tân Bình District Kindergarten yesterday saw a skit that showed them how to push straws into empty cartons after drinking milk and then flattening, folding and disposing of the cartons properly to save space and make their collection, sorting and recycling easier.

The British Embassy launched a safe motorbike riding campaign called “Know Safety No Accidents” on Thursday (Sept 28) in HCM City.

The People’s Committee of Hà Nội has approved a plan to deploy a rapid alert system on food safety for the 2018-20 period.

The Việt Nam Business Coalition for Women’s Empowerment (VBCWE), a new coalition of large employers committed to ensuring gender equality within their businesses and beyond, launched in Hà Nội on Thursday.

Part of a suspended platform fell down from the16th floor of an under-construction building on Hà Nội’s Lê Văn Lương Street late Thursday afternoon, killing a female motorbike driver who was passing by at that time.

Authorities in the northern province of Bắc Ninh are testing food samples taken from Ninh Xá Primary School as 52 students of the school suffered from food poisoning after eating lunch at school on Thursday.

Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu Province plans to build a new logistics centre and container port with total investment of VNĐ50,000 billion.

Hospitals in the southern region have admitted many patients diagnosed with hand-foot-mouth disease, measles or upper respiratory infections as the peak season (September and October) for contagious diseases has arrived.

Despite suffering from 90 per cent visual impairment, 37-year-old Trương Phước Khải of Hậu Giang Province in the Mekong Delta has a passion for making books.

Bạch Đằng Trading-Service Joint Stock Company on Thursday proposed restoring an old 84-km section of Tháp Chàm- Đà Lạt railway, with total investment of more than VNĐ8.2 trillion (US$351.7 million) in the form of a public-private-partnership (PPP).

There is a Vietnamese saying about parents’ care-giving: “When young, one relies on one’s father, and when old, one relies on one’s children”.

The HCM City fire brigade has called on people running shops at home to take proper preventive measures against fire.

The Ministry of Communication and Information has given licences to four publishing houses o compile and publish textbooks, increasing the number of textbook publishers to five.

Vietnamtourism-Hanoi Joint Stock Company is planning to launch a new city bus tour on October 10.

Hoài Nhơn District's health centre is seen as an exemplary model amongst its kind in the south central province of Bình Định thanks to its efforts in streamlining operation, efficient use of medical equipment and facilities, and ensuring the quality in the delivery of healthcare services for a population of 230,000. Electronic medical records of patients has started to be implemented at the centre. The number of patient visits to the centre is increasing on a year-on-year basis, helping to reduce the load of patients at provincial-level hospitals. — VNA/VNS Photos Dương Ngọc

Customs officials at HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport have seized more than 250 of the latest iPhone model allegedly smuggled from the US into the country.