Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Health on Wednesday held a seminar on “Smart Healthcare in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution” as part of a four-day Pharmed & Healthcare Vietnam expo that featured the latest cancer treatments and smart advances in healthcare systems.

 A proposal to build a north-south axial road in HCM City running through districts 4, 7 and Nhà Bè through a public – private – partnership (PPP) has been approved by the City People’s Committee.

For the last two months, people have been flocking to the Sông Hinh Hydropower plant’s reservoir in central province of Phú Yên to find black stones which can be sold for VNĐ 4 million per kilo.

Large areas of sea in the central province of Hà Tĩnh are being polluted by untreated waste from local shrimp farming activities.

Government Decree 46/2016 made wearing seatbelts mandatory for passengers in the backseats of cars from August 2016. Violators can be fined VNĐ100,000-200,000 (US$4-8). The old regulation only required the driver and the front-seat passenger to wear seatbelts

Việt Nam has recorded 35 earthquakes of magnitude 2.5-4.5 so far this year, according the Earthquake and Tsunami Warning Centre under the Institute of Geophysics.

The Vietnam Food Administration (VFA) under the Ministry of Health has issued an alert after finding that a number of websites promoting dietary supplements and health products violated regulations on advertising.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) said on Thursday that a 24-year-old man has been given a 12-month flight ban after telling security officers at Đà Nẵng Airport that there was a bomb in his checked luggage.

A project to build a road linking National Highway 3 and industrial zones in Hà Nội’s Sóc Sơn District was approved in 2009, but land clearance work is still incomplete, reported Kinh Tế & Đô Thị (Economic and Urban Affairs) Newspaper.

Cracks and other signs of degradation have been found on two runways in HCM City’s Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport and Hà Nội’s Nội Bài International Airport.

Nguyễn Thị Hoà’s farm in Triệu Thượng Commune, Quảng Trị Province, offers pigs precious freedom that their fellow animals rarely enjoy.

Breeding deer to harvest their antler velvet, the soft skin that grows on top, is enabling farmers in Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu Province’s Xuyên Mộc District earn a steady income.

HCM City locals can now easily update the latest traffic information via the mobile application Zalo, according to the director of the HCM City Department of Transport.

The 13^th Pharmed & Healthcare Vietnam expo opened on Wednesday at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre in HCM City’s District 7.

Đắk Lắk Province, the country largest coffee producer, planned to replace 4,259 ha of old coffee trees with new ones in the rainy season,  but farmers have reached only 50 per cent of the target, mostly due to lower prices for coffee beans, according to Việt Nam News Agency.

Twenty members of the ASEAN Social Security Association (ASSA) yesterday signed a joint statement on social security on the occasion of the 35^th ASSA Board Meeting and 20^th ASSA establishment anniversary held in Khánh Hòa Province’s Nha Trang city.

An Giang Hospital of Obstetrics Gynecology and Pediatrics has launched a project to help obstetrics facilities detect congenital heart diseases in newborns.

The Cát Linh-Hà Đông elevated railway began a trial run today morning.