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HCM City moves to ease financial burden on chronic kidney disease patients

PM approves rice aid for flood-hit residents

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has announced 2,000 tonnes of rice from the national reserve as food aid for residents in the central provinces of Quảng Bình and Hà Tĩnh who suffered serious flooding.

Police officer accused of taking bribe and framing man

A narcotics officer in Hà Nội has been accused of taking a VNĐ1 billion (US$43,500) bribe to entrap a man by planting drugs in his car.

Hundreds of smuggling, trade fraud cases detected

The units discovered and seized 141.13 kg of rhino horn, over 16.5 kg of ivory and 10,375 cigars.

Agricultural restructuring raises farmers' incomes in Bình Thuận

The restructuring of agricultural production in the south-central province of Bình Thuận has achieved positive results as more rice farmers have switched to high-value crops in drought-prone areas, earning higher incomes.

Doctor spends his life helping remote villagers in Quảng Trị

Trịnh Đức Thiện, 51, of A Vao Commune – a remote and underprivileged area in ĐaKrông District, the central province of Quảng Trị – is taking care of medicinal plants in a garden he grows to treat local residents.

Đồng Tháp craft villages do well

Craft villages in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Đồng Tháp operate efficiently, providing steady jobs and incomes to many people.

City provides favourable conditions to investors in Thủ Thiêm

The HCM City authorities have asked permission from the Prime Minister to create favourable conditions for investors in the city’s Thủ Thiêm new urban area in District 2 to ensure continued construction progress.

Workshop discusses HCM City’s key medical tourism products

Developing medical tourism products is not only in line with the global development trend, but will also contribute to diversifying the city’s tourism products and tourism sector development.

Việt Nam among top targets for phishing in Southeast Asia

Việt Nam is among the top three countries for phishing websites in Southeast Asia in the first half of the year, according to the global cybersecurity company Kaspersky.

It is not right time to revise the tax credit rate

Associate Professor Lê Xuân Trường talks to Vietnam News Agency that it is not yet time for the National Assembly to adjust the tax credit rate for all tax payers

HCM City hospital removes woman’s spleen with 5kg tumour

Doctors at HCM City’s Thống Nhất Hospital have successfully performed a surgery to remove the spleen of a 29-year-old woman who had tumours weighing five kilogrammes inside it, the hospital said in a press release on Wednesday.

Hospitals’ negligence caused two deaths of baby and teenager

Bình Thuận Province General Hospital on Thursday apologised for their negligence resulting in a new-born’s death in late August, Voice of Việt Nam has reported.

Book on peace aspiration launched

The Vietnam Peace Committee has released a book titled Việt Nam – Aspiration for Peace to demonstrate the people’s aspiration for peace.

Torrential rains leaves 6 dead, 10 missing

Torrential rains and flooding across central Việt Nam has killed six people while another 10 remain missing.

First phase of Đuống river water treatment plant inaugurated

The first phase of the Đuống river surface water treatment plant was inaugurated on Thursday in Hà Nội with a capacity of 300,000cu.m per day.

BOT investors asked to prepare for automated non-stop toll collection

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam has asked Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) investors nationwide to hand over BOT toll booths before September 25 to implement electronic toll collection (ETC).

Traditional medicine should be promoted: experts

The development of traditional medicine and pharmacy in the cause of protecting and taking care of the people's health has become an important part in activities of countries in the Mekong sub-region, said Nguyễn Trường Sơn, Deputy Minister of Health.

Senior leaders attend ceremonies for new school year

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on Thursday beat the drum to kick off the 2019-20 academic year at Sơn Tây High School in Hà Nội’s outlying Sơn Tây township.

Time to work together: PM

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked central localities and natural disaster prevention and response forces as well as the whole community to focus on overcoming consequences of recent flooding, and ensuring safety for students as the new academic year has started.