Việt Nam News

A fire broke out at a latex processing plant in southern Bình Phước Province's Đồng Phú District on Tuesday, causing an estimated loss of over VNĐ1 billion (US$444,000).

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has requested localities to encourage holding talks in industrial and processing zones to promptly respond to issues faced by labourers and prevent labour disputes and strikes.

The number of foreigners working in Việt Nam has increased significantly over the last ten years, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) reported.

More than 50 public hospitals in Hà Nội and HCM City have begun increasing hospital fees for patients who do not hold health insurance cards from this month.

A ceremony was held at the headquarters of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment (MINCEX) on Monday to mark the delivery of 5,000 tones of Vietnamese rice to Cuba.

More than 500 doctors and health officials participated in a series of recent seminars on updates on national guidelines on cervical cancer screening.

Mobile phone users must submit portrait photos when registering for accounts, an official from the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) said.

A pilot programme of the Ministry of Health (MoH) to combine tuberculosis and HIV treatments for TB/HIV co-infected patients in medical centres at district and commune levels have yielded positive results, experts said.

With a growing number of medical tourists who combine travel with medical care coming to HCM City in recent years, lucrative medical tourism needs concerted efforts by various official agencies and travel firms to realise its huge potential, experts have said.

Language barrier is the biggest obstacle in investigation of crimes involving foreign suspects, said officials of the HCM City People’s Procuracy.

The Embassy of Israel in Việt Nam yesterday presented 20 wheelchairs to disabled children at the Việt Nam – Korea Rehabilitation Centre in Hà Nội’s Quốc Oai District.

Ten people have died and more than 36,000 have been affected by dengue fever since the beginning of the year, according to the report of the Preventive Medicine Department.

Police in Sông Mã District, in the northern mountain province of Sơn La, have arrested two suspects involved in a drug-smuggling racket.

Nearly 3,000 student volunteers last Sunday (18 June) attended the opening ceremony of Tiếp Sức Mùa Thi (Examination Assistance Programme) in HCM City to assist candidates sitting the national high school graduation examinations and seeking college admission.

People who are not residents of HCM City can now apply for civil service jobs.

The central coastal province of Khánh Hoà plans to spend more than VNĐ580 billion (US$25.52 million) on 60 infrastructure projects to prevent flooding, river erosion and saltwater intrusion in 2017-2018.

Heavy downpours are expected in the northern region until June 21, with warnings of flash floods and landslides in mountainous provinces.

A math solving application created by a Vietnamese IT engineer has been downloaded and received positive feedback from thousands of smartphone users recently.