Việt Nam News

 Vietwater 2018, an international exhibition on water supply and sewerage, will be organised from November 7 to 9 this year at the Sài Gòn Exhibition and Convention Centre in HCM City.

The ancient city of Hội An has opened a wastewater treatment station to collect and clean 2,000 cubic metres of wastewater before pumping into the Hoài River whilst stopping pollution around its famous Japanese Bridge.

The Central Highlands Province of Gia Lai has deployed screening and surveillance programs in all the villages and households in the province to eradicate leprosy.

Patients taking intravenous therapy must strictly follow their doctor’s prescription to minimise possible side effects, doctors affirmed after recent tragedies have illustrated the dangers of intravenous medicines.

Local authorities in the Mekong Delta are taking serious measures to prevent flooding caused by high tides during the annual flood season in the area.

Doctors from Đà Nẵng-Hoàn Mỹ Hospital have successful operated on a five-month-old baby with congenital heart disease. The child is now fully recovered 10 days after surgery.

First piloted on downtown streets of Trần Hưng Đạo and Lý Thường Kiệt in Hoàn Kiếm District, the iParking service is now being deployed at 156 spots in seven urban districts.

Site clearance for the construction of the new Long Thành International Airport in the southern province of Đồng Nai remains slow, according to authorities.

Many Năm Roi grapefruit gardens in Bình Minh Town in the southern province of Vinh Long are damaged after being submerged by the highest tide seen in the last 40 years.

The Finance Ministry has asked the Ministry of Transport not to grant business licences to shipping lines that transport scrap that includes waste and pollutants to Việt Nam.

The deadline for entries to the photo contest ‘For the health of Vietnamese people’ has been extended until October 31.

The People’s Court of Quảng Ninh on Monday sentenced four Chinese citizens to a combined 20 years in prison after they were found guilty of "using computer networks, telecommunication networks and electronic means to commit acts of appropriating property".

More than 160 tonnes of fish raised in floating cages on Cái Nhỏ River in Tân Thanh Commune in the Mekong Delta Province of Tiền Giang have died over the past few days, incurring an initially estimated loss of up to dozens of billions of đồng.

Prolonged heavy rain and flash floods in the northern province of Hà Giang have killed one person while another remains missing as of Monday, according to the People’s Committee of Quang Bình District.

The Ministry of Transport said that building a sea dyke connecting the coastal regions of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu and Tiền Giang Provinc would disrupt the planning of seaports, inland waterways and coastal transport.

Close co-operation with the business sector will ensure that technical and vocational education and training (TVET) activities are effective and meet the needs of the market, experts have said.

HCM City residents have better benefited from the faster administrative services  provided by non-state agencies despites shortcomings from these administrative procedures.

HCM City People’s Supreme Court on Monday heard the trial appeal for the economic mismanagement and misappropriation case at Trust Bank leading to the loss of VNĐ6.3 trillion (US$271 million).