Việt Nam News

HCM City has approved the integration of its three emergency numbers as one of the first steps in its makeover as a smart city.

The Ministry of Health is conducting field trips to 29 health stations in 10 provinces and cities’ communes and wards to survey activities, facilities, personnel and finance in an aim to improve the quality of health care services for local residents.

When overseas funding for HIV/AIDS treatment pills starts to drop as the country enters the group of middle-income countries, the health ministry must involve itself in international bidding wars to secure purchase of the pills at 15-17 per cent lower than the normal rate, bringing more hope to HIV patients in the country.

Electronic toll collection started to be applied on a Build-Operate-Transfer tollbooth on the stretch of National Route 1A in central Quảng Trị Province yesterday.

Current and former leaders of the Party and State as well as people from all walks of life on March 20 participated in a ceremony to pay tribute to the late PM Phan Văn Khải at Thống Nhất Hall in HCM City.

Kiên Giang Province will invest VNĐ577 billion (US$25 million) to build 38 fishing vessels and 14 logistics ships as well as upgrade seven vessels by mid-March 2018.

Móng Cái City police in the northern province of QuảngNinh stopped seven Chinese nationals from illegally entering Việt Nam and moving to Cambodia to gamble, reported vov.vn online newspaper.

A powerful explosion on Tuesday midnight damaged the Sura BBQ restaurant and family karaoke bar located on Trần Phú Street in Vinh City. No one was injured in the accident.

Security forces at Nội Bài International Airport have intercepted an American man for carrying guns.

Kiên Giang’s People’s Committee Chairman Phạm Vũ Hồng has asked six departments and sectors to work with local authorities to re-examine the area for bird nest farming in residential localities.

Cold air from China is approaching Việt Nam and is likely to have a direct impact on the northern and central provinces, the Central Hydro-Meteorological Forecast Centre has reported.

A head-on collision between a truck and passenger bus in central Quảng Bình Province early today morning killed three persons and injured several others.

 The Ministry of Health has asked the Department of Health in central Nghệ An Province to quickly clarify the details surrounding the death of a pregnant woman.

The People’s Committee of northern Quảng Ninh Province has allowed cars driven by Chinese nationals to enter Hạ Long City through Móng Cái border gate for tourism purposes.

Ten former Nam Việt Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Navibank) officials, who were indicted for “deliberately violating State regulations on economic management, causing serious consequences”, were sentenced to seven to 13 years in jail by the HCM City People’s Court yesterday.

The People’s Court of Hòa Bình Province has released charges against three accused for the death of eight persons after undergoing kidney dialysis at the provincial General Hospital.

The Quảng Nam Province authorities and a local gold mining company are probing if a rupture in the wastewater dam triggered the massive fish deaths in two rivers some days ago.

Receiving billions of đồng in compensation, several residents in Nước Trong water reservoir project area, Tây Trà District’s Trà Thọ Commune, thought they’d be able to escape debts they had accrued through high interest loans.