Việt Nam News

A ceremony was held in Hà Nội yesterday to honour 100 outstanding blood donors in Việt Nam, an event in response to World Blood Donor Day.

HCM City will provide great support for the public-private-partnership (PPP) model in infrastructure development, its leaders told a meeting held yesterday to discuss attraction of funding through the model.

Authorities in the southern economic hub have issued an ultimatum, ordering all its districts to submit plans to the People’s Committee on getting rid of unplanned markets by July.

Bình Thuận Province authorities held a meeting with the Ministry of Defence and other relevant agencies on Tuesday (June 13) to discuss speeding up of the construction of the civilian-military Phan Thiết Airport.

More than 50,000 drug addicts across Viet Nam received methadone treatment over the past four years.

More than 80 per cent of the country’s 35 central hospitals have a division for social work to improve their quality of service, according to an official involved with a programme to set up the divisions.

The Việt Nam Red Cross Society yesterday signed a three-year agreement with FrieslandCampina Việt Nam for a communication project on nutrition education and physical strength development in children.

Prizes of the 11^th National Press Awards will be raised to the highest amount in his history, announced the awards organisation council vice president Hồ Quang Lợi.

The Việt Nam Journalists Association yesterday urged the Hà Nội and Police to undertake an urgent investigation on an attack to journalists  from the Việt Nam Television (VTV) while they were working on an undercover live report in Sóc Sơn District

Four universities in Việt Nam have been evaluated and accredited for meeting international standards by the High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCERES) in France.

The promotion and protection of the rights of persons with disabilities is high on Việt Nam’s agenda, said Ambassador Nguyễn Phương Nga, Việt Nam’s permanent representative to the United Nations.

The People’s Committee of Hà Nội has asked the relevant agencies to warn residents to not go out if they feel a thunderstorm is approaching.

The first cargo train on the 854-km route connecting Việt Nam and southwest China departed from China’s Kunming City for Hải Phòng Port on Tuesday afternoon.

Trần Nguyên Dũng, 49, from HCM City, has donated blood on 62 occasions but cannot remember the exact year when he did so for the first time.

Eight years ago, a 24-year-old man from the Mekong Delta Province of Đồng Tháp, who identified as gay at the time, decided he wanted to change his gender.

 The People’s Committee of Hà Nội will consider the construction project of the Belt Road No. 1 at the Hoàng Cầu–Voi Phục intersection.

Cameras to monitor environmental violations will be installed in all districts, according to the HCM City People’s Committee.

Hundreds of children in the northern mountainous province of Tuyên Quang have benefited from free medical check-ups and surgeries under a programme jointly carried out by the Việt Nam Association of Paediatric Surgeons (VNAPS), the Nhịp Cầu Yêu Thương (Spans of Love) Group, and the provincial General Hospital.