Doctors at Thủ Đức District Hospital last Wednesday (July 12) successfully performed the first knee replacement surgery and ligament reconstruction on a patient with hemophilia A, a genetic disorder of blood clotting.
The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) is setting up a scheme to export high-skilled labour to abroad in an effort to deal with current unemployment at home.
Vietnamese students have bagged three gold medals and one silver at the 49th International Chemistry Olympiad in Thailand, the Ministry of Education and Training announced today.
Exacerbated landslide along the Đồng Nai River in the south has forced Đồng Nai and Lâm Đồng authorities to suspend all sand mining activities in the area despite granted legal licences.
Pollution, fishing by electric shock tools and explosive, rapid infrastructure for tourism service as well as poor co-ordination mechanism among state agencies and local administrations have seen as major challenges for protection and management at Marine-protected areas (MPAs).
The Tây Ninh Province Department of Transport has green lighted Tây Ninh Tourist Trading Joint-stock Company’s proposal to operate electric buses on a trial basis in downtown Tây Ninh city and Hòa Thành District from early next year.
Over 100 participants attended a forum held yesterday in Hà Nội to discuss and gain a greater understanding of Việt Nam’s legal framework addressing child sexual exploitation, with a particular focus on child sex tourism.
The central province of Qhang Nam plans to build four hydro-power plants in the mountainous district of Nam Trà My for socio-economic development of a key national ginseng centre.
Many households in northern mountainous Hoà Bình Province have destroyed their cultivated land in search for gold, claiming that they have dug shrimp ponds to avoid local authority’s supervision.
The HCM City Young Employee Assistance Center held a summer camp in Cần Giờ District on July 13-14 for workers’ children aged 11-16.
Vice President Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh on Thursday paid floral tribute to martyrs at Hàng Dương Cemetery in Côn Đảo District, the southern province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu, in the lead-up to the 70th anniversary of Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27).
A low-pressure system has formed in the East Sea, around 160km south-southeast of Hoàng Sa (Paracel) Archipelago, at 7am on Friday.
The Military Central Commission of the Việt Nam People’s Army has co-operated closely with the Việt Nam People’s Public Security and other forces to firmly protect the independence, territorial integrity and security of the homeland, including in the air and off shore islands.
The Bạch Mã National Park has been selected as the site for the world’s only breeding centre for the saola, the extremely elusive forest-dwelling bovine only found in the forests of Việt Nam and Laos.
Vân Đồn District in Quảng Ninh province plans to carry out forceful removal of construction violators in the protected Bái Tử Long Bay national park.
Several items suspected to be belongings of dead soldiers of the Liberation Army were uncovered on Thursday, following days of excavation in an open field west of the busy Tân Sơn Nhất Airport.
Major structural flaws have been discovered on the Tân Vũ-Lạch Huyện Bridge in Hải Phòng, set to become Southeast Asia’s longest cross-sea bridge when it opens. The management board of the joint Japanese-Vietnamese project has until the end of this week to explain the problems and detail its plans to fix them.
The Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia’s leading English daily, has joined Asia News Network (ANN), an alliance now comprising 23 media in 19 Asian countries.
Four members of a family were found dead from inhaling smoke in an early morning fire that broke out today in Hà Nội.
A three-year agreement of cooperation between the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) was signed yesterday.
