Việt Nam News

The number of hand, foot and mouth infections has surged at schools in HCM City, especially at kindergartens, according to the city’s Preventive Health Centre.

A group of experts is attempting to develop a standard guideline to support the rehabilitation of children with autism in Việt Nam.

Controversial skin-care ingredients such as hydroquinone and corticosteroid are found in skin-lightening creams that have been extensively promoted online in Việt Nam over the last few years.

HCM City aims to build more than 90,000 accommodations for workers which would include 15 projects for low-cost apartments and social housing accommodations for workers on a total area of 47 hectares.

A group of doctors and social workers from the Bạch Mai Hospital (under the Ministry of Health) collaborated with Yên Bái Province's health department to organise free screenings for vascular diseases for 120 patients at the Yên Bái General Hospital. The group also presented gifts for the poor patients, local war heroes, as well as delivered scholarships and life skill books for 322 primary students in the northern mountainous locality. The programme was funded by the US-based medical device manufacturer Boston Scientific. — VNA/VNS Photos Dương Ngọc

Border guards in the central province of Quảng Trị on Tuesday captured two Lao men carrying 200,000 synthetic drug tablets across the border into Việt Nam.

Four Vietnamese nationals appeared in court on Tuesday accused of stealing SG$26,000 (US$19,000) worth of women's clothes - the biggest haul by a shoplifting syndicate in Singapore to date.

A flash flood triggered by heavy downpours has submerged schools in Yên Tĩnh Commune, Tương Dương District in the central province of Nghệ An.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Monday signed a directive calling for urgent measures to improve the management of imports of waste as production material.

A blaze wiped out at least 10 houses on Đê La Thành Street in Hà Nội on Monday night. No injuries were reported.

Police in Hà Nội on Tuesday launched an official investigation into drug use following the tragic deaths of seven young people at a music festival that shocked the country.

Construction work on eastern section of the North-South Expressway will start next year, and is scheduled to finish by 2021, the Ministry of Transport (MoT) announced yesterday.

Saigon Children’s Charity CIO raised US$216,224 for disadvantaged children through the Saigon Summer Ball it held last Saturday (September 15) in HCM City.

The American Chamber of Commerce in Việt Nam will award 60 scholarships valued at VNĐ12 million (US$515) each to students from 18 leading universities in HCM City and Bình Dương Province.

HCM City Open University and Australia’s Flinders University are jointly providing an International Credit Transfer Programme that allows students to study 1.5 years at HCM City Open University and two years in Australia for a bachelor’s degree at Flinders.

The HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment has submitted a proposal to the city’s People’s Committee seek domestic and foreign investors for a waste-burning power project.

The central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế is having a headache removing illegal residents from the citadel’s walls located in its municipal city of Huế.

Ministry of Transport and Hải Phòng City People’s Committee on Monday launched a pilot programme on passenger transportation on route Hải Phòng – Hà Nội – Kunming, aiming to promote the cross-border route between Việt Nam and China.