Vietnamese and foreign health experts are meeting at a two-day conference that began yesterday (July 6) at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City to discuss the latest techniques used to treat kidney stones and renal tumours.
Twenty-six households in Vầy Nưa Commune, Đà Bắc District, northern Hòa Bình Province, volunteered to hand over their electric systems used to illegally catch fish to commune authorities.
The Government held a meeting on Thursday to discuss urgent measures to limit illegal sand mining in the country, which has reached epidemic proportions in response to a boom in construction demand.
The 9th HCM City People’s Council closed its fifth session on Thursday, adopting 14 resolutions ranging from economic growth to free bus tickets for the elderly.
Promoting healthcare services at the grassroots level and bolstering preventive medicine should be the main task for Việt Nam’s healthcare sector over the coming years, said Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam.
HCM City authorities are calling for investment in the form of public private partnerships (PPP) to build golf courses, parks, trade centres or property projects on three closed landfill sites.
Business complains of excessive red tape on food safety
Bình Dương is the only province in the country with no poor or near-poor households based on the national multi-dimensional measure of poverty, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked the Việt Nam Southern Food Corporation (Vinafood 2) to review and punish individuals or groups associated with the corporation’s “mistakes” that have caused losses to the state budget.
Authorities are alarmed at the declining fertility rates in HCM City and southern provinces.
Thái Nguyên People’s Committee on Thursday approved a plan to fix the main dam on Núi Cốc Lake with total investment of VNĐ51.4 billion (US$2.3 million) from the provincial budget.
The Korean city of Daegu will help build an integrated managment centre on green and smart urban management in the central city of Đà Nẵng. The information was conveyed on Wednesday to the central city’s leadership by the head of Planning and Coordination of the Deagu Metropolitan City, Ku Bon-geun.
The K (Cancer) Hospital successfully operated on a 22-year-old woman and removed a huge ovarian tumour that weighed 16kg on Wednesday.
A VietjetAir plane had to return to Tân Sơn Nhất Airport due to a passenger’s health problem.
The iParking service, which makes it easier for drivers to find and pay for parking, will be rolled out to four central districts in Hà Nội, namely Hoàn Kiếm, Hai Bà Trưng, Đống Đa and Ba Đình, at the beginning of October.
Excavation workers on Wednesday stumbled upon a 344kg live bomb at a construction site in a residential area in the central Quảng Trị Province’s Hướng Hóa District.
Hà Nội People’s Committee Chairman Nguyễn Đức Chung on Wednesday denied rumours that the city was planning to replace the trees around the symbolic Hoàn Kiếm Lake.
The Kon Tum Province Police on Thursday detained one of the two drivers responsible for an accident on HCM Road that claimed four lives last Friday.
The Transport Corporation Hà Nội (Transerco) on Thursday introduced three bus routes to suburban areas.
The Government of Việt Nam and the United Nations signed a new strategic plan for the 2017-21 period in Hà Nội yesterday.
