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HCM City urged to expand social housing to improve affordability

Four children drown in Khánh Hòa

The victims were all relatives and of the Êđê ethnicity.

Traffic police launch vehicle inspections nationwide

Traffic police have kick-started a nationwide campaign to inspect coaches, passenger cars, container trucks and motorbikes in an effort to prevent serious accidents.

Rostec to Produce Inflatable Buildings

Women's Union provides job training to unskilled middle-aged women

A new vocational training programme set up by the Women's Union in HCM City has helped middle-aged women with few skills earn more income

Đà Nẵng halts project to reduce use of coracles

Đà Nẵng has decided to temporarily stop a project of reducing coracles as many seamen could not find other jobs.

High school graduate rate falls: MoET

More than 94 per cent of students sitting the national high school examination in late June of this academic year are eligible for graduation.

Water discharge sweeps away good microbacteria on Tô Lịch River

On July 9, the Hà Nội Sewage and Drainage Company discharged more than 1.5 million cu.m of water from West Lake into the Tô Lịch River.

First district in Gia Lai clear of African swine fever

Chư Prông District in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Gia Lai on Tuesday announced that its pig population is free of African swine fever.

Three young men and teenager drown in Phú Thọ’s Đà River

Local authorities have offered support to the victims’ families to transfer the bodies and carry out their funerals.

Collision between coach and truck kills two

Witnesses said nine injured passengers and drivers’ assistants were taken to local hospitals.

Elderly woman arrested for heroin trafficking

To avoid police, Liên reportedly hid drugs in children's diapers and put them in a bag.

HCM City hospital uses shockwave therapy to treat ischemic heart disease

Doctors at Thống Nhất Hospital in HCM City are applying a new shockwave therapy technique to treat patients with ischemic heart disease.

HCM City satellite emergency service to get more stations

The HCM City Department of Health plans to set up more satellite emergency stations at public and private hospitals around the city to meet the increasing need for emergency assistance at people’s homes and other locations outside medical facilities.

PM asks for push for non-stop toll collection implementation

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has pushed for the implementation of automated non-stop toll collection on all build-operation-transfer (BOT) highways across the country with a deadline of end of the year.

Miracle mother and baby return home together

Cancer stricken mother defies the odds to give birth to a baby boy.

Flight attendants return lost $13,000

Two flight attendants working for Vietnam Airlines on a flight from HCM City to Hà Nội on July 12 found a laptop and US$13,000 in a laptop bag left on the plane after passengers left.

Land inventory to be conducted nationwide

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc Prime Minister has issued a directive on land inventory and mapping the current land use status in 2019.

Hà Nội hopes to strengthen ties with France in infrastructure

Chairman of the People’s Committee of Hà Nội Nguyễn Đức Chung had a meeting in Hà Nội on Monday with Stephanie Đỗ, a French National Assembly deputy and head of the France – Việt Nam Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group.

Vinmec reveals results of largest Vietnamese genome research project

The Vinmec Medical System’s research group has revealed initial results of the Vietnamese genome decoding project after more than two years of research.

Hà Nội police raid Old Quarter bars, seizing funky balls

Hà Nội’s Police Department raided more than 20 bars and pubs in the Old Quarter area at around midnight on July 15, seizing nearly 10,000 funky balls and dozens of nitrous oxide tanks.