Việt Nam News

Child patients will be given priority in kidney transplants when there is a brain-dead or non-heart-beating donor under a new agreement on organ transplantation between three major hospitals in HCM City.

All defects along the central expressway have been repaired, main investor said, as construction quality of the infrastructure project came under fire

The Hà Nội People’s Committee will conduct the 2019 census of all Vietnamese living in the capital city starting on the morning of April 1 next year.

The Ministry of National Defense handed over 14.2 hectares of military land in Thành Tô and Cát Hải wards in Hải An District to the Hải Phòng City administration on Wednesday.

Authorities in the southern province of Đồng Nai have decided to dismantle illegal construction works at a big pig farm located on the riverhead of the Đồng Nai River in Định Quán District’s Túc Trưng Commune.

Việt Nam has reported no new cases of human infection with avian influenza viruses since the second half of 2014, an agriculture official said.

Fish have died en mass in Bình Thạnh Commune because farmers were forced to move their raising cages to avoid typhoon, causing a sudden and fatal shock.

Việt Nam’s first tissue bank was opened at Việt Đức Hospital in Hà Nội yesterday.

The application of financial autonomy for universities in Việt Nam is still on a trial basis and remains limited, according to experts.

Dengue fever in Hà Nội has declined since last month, down 95.8 per cent against the same period of last year, but the risk of contracting dengue fever is still present, warned Dr Nguyễn Nhật Cảm, director of the city’s Disease Control Centre.

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in smart city development will require high levels of investment to catch up with global trends, speakers at a conference held in HCM City said on October 16.

HCM City has set out a plan to use the Party’s assets more effectively based on market economy principles, according to the secretary of HCM City Party Committee.

Agricultural development is considered the most effective solution to ‘Zero Hunger’ and poverty reduction initiatives in Việt Nam, contributing to the realisation of sustainable development goals, said Lê Quốc Doanh, deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.

 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that Việt Nam has eliminated lymphatic filariasis as a public health problem.

Hà Nội Police on Monday arrested and launched criminal proceedings against a man who was allegedly involved in trading human kidneys earlier this year.

The country’s first waste-burning power plant, located in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ, was put into trial operation on October 15.

Police from the central province of Quảng Bình announced yesterday they had arrested a Laotian man for illegally transporting over 30kg of methamphetamine by pickup truck.

Hà Nội authorities have ordered a comprehensive inspection on the use and management of protection forest in Minh Phú and Minh Trí communes in Sóc Sơn District to tackle long-standing violations.