Việt Nam News

A dengue fever forecasting Model Satellite-based system (D-MOSS) was launched yesterday in Hà Nội following a joint effort by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and a consortium led by HR Wallington.

Lai Châu Province late yesterday announced it was culling 117 pigs found to be infected with the African swine fever (ASF) virus, the first incident in the northern mountainous province since the disease flared up in Việt Nam in late February.

Việt Nam has 19 organ transplant centres, and the biggest problem they face was a shortage of organs to conduct transplants, said professor Trịnh Hồng Sơn, director of the National Coordination Centre for Organ Transplantation.

The #3500 LIVES traffic safety campaign, which reminds people that 3,500 people die on the road every day, was launched on Tuesday in Hà Nội.

A truck travels through Bắc Luân II Bridge at Móng Cái International Border Gate. Việt Nam’s northeastern Quảng Ninh Province and China’s Guangxi Province began allowing customs clearance through the bridge yesterday.

Experts exchanged expertise on initiatives to prevent sexual violence between Việt Nam and the UK during a conference held on Monday in Hà Nội.

Thirteen projects received first prizes in the annual National Science and Technology Contest for high school students in the southern region at an awards ceremony at Tôn Đức Thắng University in HCM City on Tuesday.

Việt Nam’s northeastern Quảng Ninh Province and China’s Guangxi Province began allowing customs clearance through Bắc Luân II Bridge at Móng Cái International Border Gate on Tuesday.

Hà Nội’s Department of Transport said it would launch a campaign to eliminate illegal parking areas in the city.

A set of 158 indicators to monitor and supervise Việt Nam’s national action plan for the 2030 agenda on sustainable development was launched by the General Statistics Office yesterday in Hà Nội.

The HCM City government has approved the HCM City Institute for Development Studies’ plan to establish a socio-economic forecast and simulation centre this month.

Foreign and Vietnamese lecturers and postgraduates will conduct research about landslides, river pollution, climate-change adaptation, transnational marriages and Khmer migration as part of the Summer School & Field Trip 2019 from March 18 to 31 in the Mekong Delta.

The HCM City Oncology Hospital on Monday successfully performed its first stereotactic body radiation therapy on a patient with nasopharyngeal cancer.

Hà Nội People’s Court on Monday sentenced three people to death and one to life imprisonment for drug trafficking by air.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân has urged the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum to restructure its economy to tap tourism potential.

Thousands of households in the northern province of Quảng Ninh are thirsty for fresh water as most wells they use have recently been contaminated with alum.

It was a wet Sunday morning when Thành and his wife woke up at four and travelled more than 30km from Phố Hồ Commune in Bắc Ninh Province to Hà Nội to have their 3-year-old daughter tested for pork tapeworm.

National science contests for school students are attracting more and more competitors every year, according to the Ministry of Education and Training’s secondary education department.