Việt Nam News

Việt Nam is facing an alarming shortage of qualified nursing care workers for the elderly. Most elderly people are cared for by their relatives or domestic helpers with little medical expertise, health experts say.

Nguyễn Chí Trung, director of the Hội An Centre for Relic Preservation and Management speaks to Tuổi trẻ newspaper on the imperative need to have strong legal documents to preserve the City.

The HCM City Department of Transport has installed new, clearer road signs in many places, which is improving traffic flow.

The number of people who die of hypertension each year in Việt Nam is 10 times higher than the number of victims killed by traffic accidents, a cardiovascular specialist said at a recent workshop.

The latest indicators of climate change and rising sea levels in Việt Nam are showing stronger impacts of climate change.

Yesterday, Lương Văn Cầu, deputy head of Hải Dương Province People’s Committee, and representatives of local authorities visited and presented financial supports for families of three victims who died in a fire at Hoà Phát Company’s steel complex.

The HCM City People’s Court yesterday began its trial of 28 former officials of Đại Tín Bank (Trust Bank) (now Việt Nam Construction Bank) for allegedly "abusing trust to appropriate property" and "intentionally violating state regulations on economic management and causing serious consequences".

Three workers died of burns on Tuesday after being injured in a fire accident at a steel complex in Hải Dương Province.

The central province has revoked the investment license of the Tân Mai pulp and paper production plant due to delayed construction and operation and incomplete land-use certificate procedures as well as poor finance.

HCM City’s Department of Food Safety Management and Sóc Trăng Province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development held a signing ceremony recently to agree to sell agricultural and aquatic products in a food-safety supply chain to help manage quality.

The northern region is likely to get rainfall on Tuesday afternoon, cooling some areas that have been suffering from a harsh early summer since the past week.

Maternal mortality rate in the country fell from 233 per 100,000 live births in the 1990s to 58.3 per 100,000 live births in 2016.

Police on Monday took into custody a man accused of killing four people, including two young children, in a knife attack in the northern province of Cao Bằng.

Việt Nam appreciated Sweden’ s sharing on experiences, good practices and technologies to support the development of public transport sector, Deputy Transport Minister Lê Đình Thọ said on Monday.

Fishermen around the country caught 1.08 million tonnes of fish and other aquatic species in the first four months of the year, 2.7 per cent up year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

About 12-14 storms and low tropical pressures systems are likely to appear in the East Sea this year, and 4-6 storms will hit Việt Nam, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

The People’s Court of Hòa Bình City in the northern province of Hòa Bình yesterday delayed the first-instance trial on a medical incident causing eight deaths at the kidney dialysis division of the Hòa Bình General Hospital in May last year.

A new proposal for the reduction of toll fees, as well as the exemption of tolls for cars of 17 communes and wards located in a 10km radius of Ninh Lộc Toll Station in Khánh Hoa Province, has been submitted to the Ministry of Transport.