The rate of blindness among people aged 50 and older has dropped rapidly over the past decade, standing at 1.3 percent in 2018 from 3.1 percent in 2008, according to a survey conducted in 14 cities and provinces.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) will amend the guidelines on diagnosis and treatment for dengue patients in a bid to improve the effectiveness of treatment and reduce the mortality rate caused by the disease.
HCM City requires investment of more than VNĐ83,061 billion (over US$3.6 billion) for the city’s transportation infrastructure development in the period 2021 – 2025.
The HCM City Traditional Medicine Institute will soon provide comprehensive services including psychological consultation, speech therapy, acupuncture, hydro-acupuncture, thread embedding and electro-acupuncture for autistic children next month after three years of preparation.
Vietnamese authorities are working to accelerate the identification of victims thought to have been involved in the lorry incident in Essex, the UK, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyễn Quốc Cường.
Many start-ups have brought their technologies and products into the market in 2017-19 thanks to financial and technical assistance for R&D provided by the HCM City Department of Science and Technology’s SpeedUp innovation and start-up programme.
Giving up a stable job at a leading Japanese research centre with a high salary to return to Việt Nam and start a business at the age of 54 may be beyond most people.
Businesses and experts are still concerned over the impact on production of overtime hours are not increased for seasonal jobs.
With the unique idea of using fermented bagasse (sugercane pulp) to treat shrimp ponds, Trần Phúc Hậu has become the proud director of a company that produces microbiological bagasse pulp.
Nguyễn Việt Dũng, director of HCM City's Department of Science and Technology, talks to Việt Nam News reporter Gia Lộc about the development of start-ups in the country and HCM City.
British police have sent documents to Việt Nam for verification on four of the 39 victims found dead inside a lorry last week, said a Vietnamese deputy foreign minister on Monday morning.
