Việt Nam News

Doctors at the Pediatrics Hospital No.2 have successfully performed a liver transplant on a baby with congenital biliary atresia.

The prices of about 1,900 different services at public hospitals will increase from Tuesday (August 20), according to the Ministry of Health.

Doctors at Từ Dũ Hospital in HCM City suspected a foetus had a serious but rare congenital heart defect called transposition of the great arteries, which can be detected between 22 to 24 weeks.

Transport companies in HCM City and Hà Nội plan to increase the number of trains and buses to cope with the rush expected during the long Independence Day weekend next month.

The An Giang People’s Committee on Monday declared the urgent erosion situation along the Hậu River passing Vĩnh Trường Commune, An Phú District.

Construction work on the Quảng Ninh Geriatrics Hospital, the country's first of its kind at the provincial level, started on Monday in Hạ Long City.

Tây Hồ District’s Department of Education and Training will stop the operation of Maple Bear Westlake Point International Kindergarten regarding an incident in which a student at the school was locked in a cupboard for not obeying teachers’ instructions, said an official.

Five years after the Government issued Decree 67, which aimed at supporting fishermen to build bigger and more modern steel-hulled boats able to resist bad weather and venture further into the sea, the decree has hardly been a panacea for the country’s fishermen.

The United States will fund US$50 million to support people with disabilities in seven provinces sprayed with dioxin during the war, a conference heard on Monday.

Trần Quang Hoài, general director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s General Department of Disaster Prevention and Control and deputy head of the Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control talks to Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper about the importance of active prevention in dealing with increasingly extreme weather.

The new management board of the Chinese Taiwan-invested footwear manufacturer KaiYang Vietnam Limited Company spoke to thousands of employees on Monday morning, saying the firm would restart its work on Tuesday after its doors were shut last week following the abrupt departure of the company's director last week.

Provinces in the Central Highlands face the risk of reservoirs bursting since hundreds of them are damaged or degraded.

With the new school year set to start on September 5 most schools around the country are fully prepared to welcome students with though a few others are worried about a shortage of classrooms.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tiền Giang has spent nearly VNĐ300 billion (US$12.9 million) to revet 7,581 metres of the Gò Công sea dyke with concrete to protect it from erosion.

The University of Science and Technology – HCM City National University has become familiar with residents in the southern province of Bến Tre.

The Ministry of Construction has requested the people’s committees of provinces and cities make land use planning information available to the public through an online portal.

A bomb weighing about 100kg was uncovered by fishermen in Tam Bạc River on Sunday afternoon in Hải Phòng's Hồng Bàng District, said Ha Ly Commune police chief Phan Đức Xá.

Hundreds of officers, police and residents are searching for three people who were swept away in a local waterfall in Ia Grai District, Gia Lai Province.