Srey Phirum Khun, 45, used to spend 8 hours travelling from Cambodia’s Kampong Speu Province to HCM City in Việt Nam for health checkups and treatment. Today, she no longer faces the grueling journey thanks to the inauguration of the Chợ Rẫy Phnom Penh Hospital in January 2014.
The People’s Committee of Biên Hòa City in the southern province of Đồng Nai will install cameras to monitor illegal sand exploitation on the Đồng Nai River.
Transport authorities have prevented 31,000 trucks overloaded with goods or passengers from entering highways since early this year, the Việt Nam Expressway Service Joint Stock Company has said.
Farmers in Tiền Giang Province, the country’s largest fruit producer, have planted 1,000ha of new fruit plants so far this year, according to the province’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Handicapped Vietnamese people face obstacles to access education, leaving the majority of them with a low level of education and few job opportunities, a conference heard in Hà Nội last week.
Thanh Hoá Province People’s Committee plans to give 21,000 students some 1,500 tonnes of rice during the first semester of the 2018-19 academic year.
Fifty-seven remote and rural villages in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk will be linked to the national power grid soon, according to Lê Hòa Nhơn, deputy director of Đắk Lắk Power Company.
An Italian doctor has returned to Việt Nam for the 10th time to conduct operations and provide examinations for children suffering from genital malformations.
More than 200 scientific reports are being presented by surgeons and experts from 45 hospitals in Việt Nam and abroad at the Việt Nam Scientific Conference of Surgery and Endolaparoscopy that opened on October 5 in HCM City.
Hanoi Transport Services Corporation (Transerco), in co-operation with Telecoms Group Viettel, will launch the bus rapid transit (BRT) e-ticket line 01 from Kim Mã to Yên Nghĩa as a pilot program next Wednesday, October 10.
Handling public complaints in HCM City remains a complicated task since many involve large numbers of people and government staff have limited competence, the HCM City People’s Council concluded at a meeting yesterday.
Around 100 members of the World Technopolis Association (WTA) from nearly 50 countries and territories will gather next week for the WTA Summit 2018 to be held in Bình Dương Province.
Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng instructed the HCM City People’s Committee to handle the planned multi-trillion dong tidal flooding project.
Provincial authorities in the Central Highlands should encourage farmers to grow avocado around the year, the Western Highlands Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute has said.
The Ministry of Finance has proposed to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc measures to address loopholes in the legal framework related to offering state assets to Build-Transfer (BT) investors in exchange for infrastructure.
The number of poor households in the Mekong Delta province of Long An fell from 4 per cent in 2016 to 2.9 per cent as of June this year, according to the province’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
More than 2,000 people including 300 speakers will attend the 16th National Congress of Cardiology in the central city of Đà Nẵng today and tomorrow.
The Vietnamese and Indian Coast Guards on Thursday carried out a joint exercise off the Chennai coast, Tamil Nadu state, India.
As many as 63 provincial-level market surveillance departments will be established under the newly named General Department of Market Surveillance by October 12.
Residents of Phụ Chính Village in Hòa Chính Commune, Chương Mỹ District want to sell a 200-year-old sưa (dalbergia tonkinensis) tree which was once valued at VNĐ100 billion (US $4.28 million).
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