Việt Nam News

Nguyễn Thanh Liêm, Director of the Stem Cell and Gene Technology Institute at Vinmec Times City International Hospital, has become the first Vietnamese doctor to receive the 2018 Nikkei Asia Prize in the science and technology category.

Ba Đình district’s People’s Committee here ordered all construction works illegally built on land allotted for a parking project on Phan Kế Bính street to be demonlished by June 18.

National Assembly deputies continued discussions on the country’s amended anti-corruption laws yesterday during the NA’s fifth meeting in Hà Nội.

A self-taught mechanic in the Central Highlands, where the bulk of Vietnamese pepper is grown, invented an infrared drying machine that bring great benefits to spice farmers in the mountainous area still mired in difficulties.

The Transport Ministry wants to transfer some administrative services to the control of private business and organisations and it has been developing a plan to achieve this.

Việt Nam has more stringent regulations for treating wastewater produced by livestock than many developed countries.

A lack of capital has made the Thái Bình 2 Thermal Power Plant fall behind schedule to pay credit loans even as the deadline approaches, reported Vietnam Finance newspaper.

HCM City authorities have decided to pilot several “smart city” proposals in districts 1 and 12, as well as the Thủ Thiêm New Urban Area, based on ideas from experts and research conducted by local agencies.  

The number of bids for medicine and medical equipment has risen dramatically in HCM City, according to the city’s Health Department.

The northern mountainous province of Điện Biên used to be a hot spot of heroin trafficking. While the problem still exists in the province today, it has eased dramatically thanks to the brave efforts of the police and security services.

Eight police officers in the northern province of Hưng Yên were exposed to HIV while catching criminals, according to the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Department under the health ministry.

Several public management agencies were responsible for the recent construction project at a heritage site that violated the Cultural Heritage Law, the Ninh Bình Province People’s Committee said.

People need to be wary of new sophisticated methods and tricks of criminals, said Phạm Tùng Vân, deputy head of the HàNội Police’s Advisory Board.

HCM City has set a target of treating 90 per cent discharged water into rivers and canals by 2020.

HCM City authorities is working with all 24 districts on a wide range of plans to prevent flooding in the rainy season.

The Việt Nam Food Administration under the Ministry of Health on Monday released a warning after a case of mushroom poisoning in the northern mountainous of Sơn La.

Đắk Lắk’s Department of Health discharged a patient from hospital yesterday who had been diagnosed with swine flu A/H1N1 10 days ago.

The HCM Communist Youth Union’s Vừ A Dính Scholarship Fund said it has attracted donations of nearly VNĐ29 billions (US$1.3 million) from 37 local and foreign organisations and individuals this year.