Việt Nam News

Forty nine infants with congenital defects have been saved by the HCM City Children’s Hospital this year thanks to close co-operation between obstetricians and pediatricians, experts told the 13^th National Paediatric Surgery Conference that opened on October 25.

Traffic congestion has cost Hà Nội between US$1 and 1.2 billion per year and has made air pollution five times worse, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy under the Ministry of Transport said.

Border guards in central Hà Tĩnh Province have detained two men for smuggling 32kg of ecstasy and ten bricks of heroin, equivalent to 3.5kg of heroin, from Laos to Việt Nam.

One year after a surgery for cataracts, 75-year-old Trần Thị Tuyết from the northern province of Nam Định is worried about her vision once again. Over the last few days, everything started to go blurry.

Việt Nam jumps forward two positions to reach the 45^th place on the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2018 released by World Intellectual Property Organisation.

It is rare to see a male kindergarten teacher anywhere in Việt Nam. But deep in the mountains of the northern province of Yên Bái, some men are smashing the unspoken prejudice by showing they can dance and sing and take care of the children as well as anyone.

Nearly 9,000 State employees in Hà Nội’s State agencies have been made redundant so far this year.

The device is the brainchild of Nguyễn Thanh Trung, a second-year student at HCM City University of Information Technology.

The Asia Injury Prevention Foundation and its partners donated helmets to 500 students of Bá Hiến B Primary School in Vĩnh Phúc Province under its Helmets for Kids programme to teach road safety to and raise awareness of helmet usage among teachers and students.

Local authorities in central Nghệ An Province have decided to stop granting licences to new hydropower projects in the province, highlighting the damage caused by the plants.

Fifty four disadvantaged university students in HCM City received scholarships each worth US$350 from the Lotte Foundation at a ceremony on Wednesday (October 24).

One person died and eight others were injured in two bee attacks in Hữu Kiểm Commune, local authorities in Kỳ Sơn District, the central province of Nghệ An reported.

The annual Pink Hat Day which will take place this Sunday at Crescent Mall in HCM City’s District 7 is calling for hair donations to support breast cancer patients.

At a trial in HCM City on 23 October a government prosecutor said ride-hailing company Grab’s operations have caused losses to taxi giant Vinasun.

For months, every morning and evening along roads in Hà Nội a young man on a fancy motorbike has been offering pedestrians free rides.

The building of new thermopower plants has recently become a cause célèbre in the country as economic demands and environmental concerns face off, especially with a number of localities rejecting central Government-approved plants.

Hà Nội administration needs to enact a group of comprehensive measures to improve traffic safety in the city.

Việt Nam is advised to compile a national framework for a supply chain to provide safe pork to serve the domestic market.