Residents in HCM City’s Bình Tân District have been forced to burn piles of uncollected waste left on Bình Long Street after companies dumped the waste in the area at night, according to people living on the streets.
Long queues of people lining up for health checks are a common scene at public hospitals, and many have to wait for a day until they can see a doctor.
Three years after beginning a pilot programme to buy solar power at VNĐ2,000 (8.7 US cents) per kWh generated in homes and offices, HCM City has signed up 290 consumers.
State-owned businesses must undergo an urgent review of their assets before they can be equitised over the next two years.
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Hydropower projects in the central province of Nghệ An are causing problems for local people due to poor planning that has damaged the environment and led to the threat of damn breaches during the rainy season.
More than 1,700 households in three remote communes in the mountainous province of Lai Châu are temporarily isolated due to prolong heavy rains, Vietnam News Agency reported yesterday.
More than 5,000 volunteers and members of the Việt Nam Red Cross Society (VNRC) as well as local residents joined a fundraising walk for Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin victims and people with disabilities on Sunday (August 5) at Đầm Sen Cultural Park in HCM City’s District 11.
The General Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and the Bến Tre People’s Committee organised a scientific seminar on Friday (August 3) on coastal erosion control in Thạnh Phú District.
A smart city control centre that opened on Phú Quốc Island on August 1 will receive residents’ complaints and coordinate emergency functions, among other functions.
Hospitals and clinics in Việt Nam have started implementing surveillance of nosocomial infections and monitoring the hospital-infection control process, Deputy Minister of Health, Nguyễn Viết Tiến said .
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Ministry of Finance (MoF) has asked the Government to stop the electricity subsidy for poor households from 2019 for its negative impacts on the national poverty elimination policies.
The Ministry of Health is inspecting the preventive efforts in place against dengue fever in 16 provinces and cities where the disease is seeing an upward trend.
The Việt Nam Red Cross Society’s Central Committee has launched a volunteer quick-reaction team for disaster relief and humanitarian activities in the country.
The Ministry of Transport has announced plans to limit the cargo handled at HCM City’s Cát Lái Port since volumes are exceeding its handling capacity, exerting pressure on the city’s transport infrastructure.
Việt Nam Social Security (VSI) has reported that many hospitals have been found abusing the health insurance fund in the first six months of this year.
The pooling of fields to create large-scale fields and co-operatives for growing clean produce in Đồng Nai Province has benefited farmers and companies.
The Department of Planning and Investment of Đồng Nai Province has created a database of information about enterprises in an attempt to prevent commercial fraud and sale of fake goods.
More than one million hectares of productive Vietnamese forest should receive a new certification by 2030.
A fire occurred yesterday at Quảng Nhật Co Ltd in the Nhị Xuân Industrial Zone in Hóc Môn District, HCM City.
Landslides triggered by heavy downpours in the mountainous province of Lai Châu have killed six people, with another four missing, said local authorities on Friday.
