Việt Nam News

Summer has come along with heavy downpour. Each time it rains cats and dog, the capital city might become a dead pool for hours. Flooding is a headache problem that Hà Nội’s leading officials have found solutions for years but have yet to be successful.

Việt Nam has been focusing on the development of non-fired adobe brick to gradually replace clay brick in the construction sector. However, after nearly ten years of implementing, the use of this type of bricks remains modest.

All secondary and high schools in the country will offer professional career counselling to students that would match employment demands of local businesses by 2025, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

The use of codes and barcodes on products has helped improve the competitiveness of enterprises and ensured effective monitoring on the origin of goods for consumers.

HCM City’s administrative reforms are delivering results and there will be more of the same, city authorities have said.

The Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) from Australia, in co-operation with the city’s Opthalmology hospital, will provide free eye surgeries for 50 kids living in the city, and a eye screening programme in six months with total fund of VNĐ724 million (US$32,000).

HCM City’s Department of Interior Affairs has outlined a new policy on the prevention and handling of child abuse cases which includes new hotlines for victims and their families.

Vietnam Railways (VNR) has asked railway companies to install cameras at level-crossing barriers to facilitate the supervisory and improve safety system at level-crossings.

HCM City seeks to cut air pollution caused by vehicles by 70 per cent under a five-year plan that began in 2016.

The Management Board of the Nam Kar Natural Conservation Centre in Central Highlands’ Đắk Lắk province has decided to take disciplinary action against four forest rangers.

A captain and one crew member are missing after their barge crashed into a container ship on the Sài Gòn River in HCM City on Wednesday.

Police in northern Hưng Yên province started legal proceedings against 10 defendants on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in an online gambling ring.

Facebook, in collaboration with the Management and Sustainable Development Institute (MSD), officially launched “Think Before You Share,” an online safety programme, in Việt Nam on Tuesday.

On a recent Saturday morning in the meeting room of Tâm Đức Heart Hospital in District 7, HCM City, a seminar was held on “Atrial fibrillation effective management: the role of new generation anticoagulants in preventing stroke in atrial fibrillation patient”.

The People’s High Court in HCM City yesterday (June 5), after a two-day trial, rejected the appeals of 14 of 16 defendants charged with “terrorism to oppose the people’s administration” and retained the court’s original sentences of five to 16 years in prison issued at a trial in February.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a socio-economic development plan for resettlement areas following the construction of the Sơn La hydropower plant.

Thirty severe cases of Encephalitis—Meningitis were being treated at the Department of Infectious Diseases of Việt Nam National Children’s Hospital, reported Phụ Nữ Việt Nam (Việt Nam Women) newspaper.

The outbreak of swine flu A/H1N1, reported at HCM City’s Từ Dũ Maternity Hospital is now under control, with all patients now discharged from the hospital.