Việt Nam News

Secretary of the HCM City Party Nguyễn Thiện Nhân said at a conference held on Tuesday that the city expects to outline a plan to build embankments and improve management of land along rivers and canals by the year-end.

Nearly 1,100 hospital management and healthcare professionals from the Asia Pacific region attended Hospital Management Asia 2019, an annual event for Asian healthcare leaders, which opened in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

The light bulb factory that caught fire releasing toxic chemical fumes into the atmosphere late in August has been told that it must relocated to the outskirts of Hà Nội.

A large-scale meth lab has been busted in a joint operation between Vietnamese and Chinese law enforcement officers.

Two days of heavy rain in north Việt Nam has left five people dead, five more injured, and one person missing.

Two workers have reportedly died of suffocation in the northern province of Thanh Hóa on Tuesday.

The Ministry of Transport has hired system-safety-assessment consultants from France to carefully evaluate design, construction, installation and trial of the Cát Linh-Hà Đông urban elevated railway project.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) on Monday annul its decisions of punishing workers having violations in the national high school graduation exam last year.

In recent years, incidents relating to transportation projects have raised concern over the quality of infrastructure.

Cases of Whitmore’s disease, also called melioidosis, has increased remarkably during the rainy season with a high rate of mortality, director of the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases Đỗ Duy Cường said.

A recent inspection at 70 pharmacies connected to the system found some pharmacies have not updated information sufficiently and regularly.

The National Hospital of Endocrinology held a ceremony to celebrate its 50th anniversary yesterday and received the Labour Order first class from the Government in recognition of its outstanding achievements and contribution to public healthcare and national construction.

Doctors from the centre gave staff on the ship first aid guidance on the phone.

General Director of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Nguyễn Đức Lợi and President of the Prensa Latina (PL) news agency of Cuba, Luis Enrique Gonzalez Acosta, held talks in Hà Nội on Tuesday to review outcomes of bilateral co-operation and discuss measures to strengthen their partnership in the future.

Ambassador Dương Chí Dung, head of Viet Nam’s Permanent Mission to the UN, the WTO and other international organisations, is leading a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 42nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on the impact of climate change on human rights, which opened in Geneva on Monday (local time).

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Monday ordered chairman of the People’s Committee of Hà Nội Nguyễn Đức Chung to closely work with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to urgently handle environmental issues after the fire at Rạng Đông Light Sources and Vacuum Flask JSC occurred late last month.

More than 200 children will receive free-of-charge cleft lip and palate jaw examinations in the central province of Phú Yên.

A Japanese business scholarship and employment foundation has been established in providing supports for Vietnamese students in central region, offering total scholarship of VNĐ12 billion (US$521,000) and more than 6,000 jobs.