Two options for toll fee collection at Cai Lậy Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) toll booth in Tiền Giang Province will be submitted to the Prime Minister for approval, said Nguyễn Danh Huy, head of the public-private partnership project management and investment board under the Ministry of Transport, on Tuesday.
Infectious diseases with the highest number of patients were those related to clean water and environmental hygiene, said associate professor Nguyễn Thị Liên Hương, director of the Health Environment Management Agency under the Ministry of Health (MOH).
Traffic police in central Bình Định Province fined the driver of a tractor trailer VNĐ12.5 million (US$537) for transporting a giant banyan tree on National Highway 19.
Krông Pa District in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai is considered a good area for solar power projects as the temperatures can rise to 40oC.
While few healthcare centres in Việt Nam have been licensed to use fire therapy in medical treatment, a number of spas and beauty salons in HCM City still advertise the dangerous service to cure thousands of illness.
Việt Nam will promote education on tobacco prevention at schools, propose a higher tax rate on cigarettes, raise serious reports on smoking-related diseases and impose strict punishments on violations in smoke-free areas.
In Việt Nam, books available for people with disabilities remain as low as one per cent – but there is hope for the future.
The 2019 national population and housing census should be conducted quickly, accurately, economically and effectively.
A medical alliance – HM Group – has been launched in the central city with an aim of serving 500,000 patients in 2020 and boosting information technology, human resources for the hospital and clinic.
Current methods of teaching music in high school should be adjusted to improve teaching quality, experts said at a recent seminar held by the HCM City Conservatory of Music.
Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has asked people’s committees of localities at central levels to make plans to use ash and cinder for construction and other purposes.
Twenty-five students in HCM City were injured when a scaffold collapsed in their school yard on Tuesday morning.
The People’s Committee of central Thanh Hóa Province has approved VNĐ34 billion (US$1.46 million) for repairs on the dyke system along the Mã River, which has sustained serious damage after storms and flooding over recent years.
A VietJet Air plane was forced to return to HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất Airport on Monday shortly after takeoff after the captain detected a technical warning.
The Ministry of Transport has urged the People’s Committee of northern Thái Nguyên Province to accelerate land clearance work for the section of the Hồ Chí Minh National Expressway running through the province.
The retirement age for male and female workers could increase from 60 and 55 at present to 62 and 60 respectively from 2021, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and Deputy PM Vũ Đức Đam met with 200 distinguished education workers from across the country on Monday in Hà Nội.
Born and bred in the Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng, Nghiêm Đại Thuận – one of Việt Nam’s 63 outstanding farmers this year – is familiar with coconuts.
On a Saturday morning in September, a special first day of school took place in a small room at HCM City’s Tumour Hospital.
The poverty rate of ethnic minority households in Cà Mau Province fell by more than 3 per cent each year after three years of implementation of its national targeted programme on sustainable poverty reduction that began in 2016.
