Việt Nam News

Nearly 1,000 children and teachers took part yesterday (October 3) in the “Children Have Fun with Road Safety” festival at Lê Lợi Primary School in HCM City’s Nhà Bè District as part of the Helmets for Families programme run by the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation.

The Drug Administration of Việt Nam, under the Ministry of Health, has decided to withdraw 11 drugs containing N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) beyond permitted levels that potentially cause cancer.

An agreement to allow Vietnamese workers to work in Japan for five years was signed on Friday in Hà Nội.

A Việt Nam National Innovation Centre will be built following a decision signed by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

Hà Nội's Department of Transport has released plans to regulate traffic in Nam Từ Liêm District’s Lê Đức Thọ and Lê Quang Đạo streets to facilitate the construction of a Formula One (F1) racetrack.

Nguyễn Minh Lương, a 71-year-old man living in Long Xuyên City in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, is often away from home all day to help the poor.

Việt Nam will be part of The Hague Agreement for the International Registration of Industrial Designs, which allows Vietnamese industrial designs to be protected in multiple countries, in the next three months.

The employee turnover rate has been on the rise in the last three years, reaching an alarming rate of 24 per cent this year, according to a report from the human resource consultancy Anphabe.

The National Assembly’s Committee for Social Affairs continued its meeting on Thursday on the implementation of autonomy at public hospitals.

Hải Phòng authorities have demanded the police investigate and handle criminal gangs who allegedly destroyed houses on military land and threatened residents.

Six people who smuggled millions of dollars’ worth of heroin and methamphetamine from Laos to Việt Nam could face the death penalty.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) on Thursday committed to further strengthening cooperation in enhancing the understanding of gender norms and behaviors for male and female officers in foreign services.

Two hospitals have been named as Centers of Excellence for Breastfeeding. The awards were given by Alive & Thrive – a global nutrition initiative – and the Đà Nẵng and Quảng Nam health departments.

Eleven people have been jailed for stealing from containers taking goods overseas.

The Phú Thọ General Hospital has become the first provincial hospital in the country to successfully use a robot in spinal column surgery.

Drones are being used on a trial basis to spray crop protection chemicals in the Mekong Delta provinces of Đồng Tháp and Long An under the region’s high-tech agricultural programmes.

In 2009, Mùa Thị Mụa decided to leave her hometown in Laos and move to Việt Nam’s Sơn La Province to live with the man she loved.

HCM City authorities yesterday (Oct 2) pledged to speed up major projects such as Metro lines 1 and 2, flood-control and climate-change adaptation projects, and settlement of complaints related to the Thủ Thiêm new urban area.