Việt Nam News

Vocational training schools in Việt Nam will continue to use curricula transferred from Australia and Germany until the end of 2020 and 2025, respectively, following Prime Minister’s approval to extend the technical vocational education and training (TVET) reform plan.

The happiness of parenthood might sound simple to most people, yet for approximately one million infertile couples in Việt Nam, it would be an impossible dream if there were not doctors like Tăng Đức Cương.

Patrols will be increased and fire safety promoted by local districts in HCM City and neighboring provinces in an aim to prevent forest fires during the current dry season, the city's Fire Fighting and Prevention Police Department has said.

The HCM City People’s Committee has urged all districts to conduct programmes on smart city development, with specific targets, roadmaps and implementation measures suited to the characteristics of individual locality.

Việt Nam has basically achieved the target of health insurance for all, but it still needs to further expand the coverage of social insurance, according to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

All 63 provinces and cities across the country have allowed students at different educational level to remain off from school to stop the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc, as Chairman of ASEAN in 2020, issued a statement on ASEAN’s joint response to the outbreak of the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Vietnamese businesses have voiced their concerns over the struggle to cope with the coronavirus due to a lack of raw materials. Such shortage would result in businesses having to temporarily suspend operations, with workers being laid off.

HCM City is taking steps to improve road and water drainage infrastructure to mitigate its traffic and flooding problems.

Tests for coronavirus could be run at provincial hospitals in a few days time, said Professor Đặng Đức Anh, director of the National Institute for Hygiene and Epidemiology.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has asked all cities and provinces to focus on correctly disposing discarded face masks, especially in quarantine sites, in an attempt to stop the spread of COVID-2019.

As of February 14, 41 provinces and cities had planned to reopen on Monday following the Ministry of Education and Training’s statement that provinces and cities where COVID-19 has not appeared could open after two weeks off.

District authorities in HCM City will speed up site clearance compensation and resettlement for households affected by construction of the city's Metro Line No 2 project by June.

Vietnamese localities said that the situation in the country so far remains firmly under control.

Environmental pollution has affected dozens of households living near a landfill with huge mounds of stinking rubbish in Chợ Đồn District, Bắc Kạn Province.

 Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City is the first hospital in the country to use an MRI-ultrasound fusion biopsy to improve the accuracy of prostrate cancer diagnosis.

Erosion along riverbanks in the southern province of Bình Dương’s Tân Uyên Township has become more serious in recent years and greatly affected local residents.