Provinces revamp disease control

Almost half the country’s provinces have set up a centre for disease control by merging their centres for preventive health, prevention of HIV/AIDS, malaria and others, and the Ministry of Health wants the rest to follow suit.

 

Đà Nẵng to investigate real estate violations

The central city’s construction department has asked the city’s public security department to investigate illegal transaction of apartments of the Mường Thanh Apartment project in Đà Nẵng.

Rehabilitation improves heart patients’ lives

Cardiac rehabilitation, a medically supervised programme including exercises, should be provided to patients with heart problems for them to recover after surgery, a Japanese physical therapist has told a training workshop on cadiopulmonary exercise testing.

 

Interest rate for social housing loans

The Việt Nam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) interest rate for social housing loans in 2017 will be 4.8 per cent per annum, or 0.4 per cent a month, according to a decision just signed by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

Japanese firm to help farmers produce safe food

Japan’s Arrowfield Co. Ltd. has signed an agreement with Việt Nam Farmers’ Association on providing support for the growth and development of agriculture and farmers in Việt Nam.

 

Centre for aviation security proposed

 The Airport Corporation of Việt Nam (ACV) has submitted to the Ministry of Transport a plan to set up a centre for aviation security at airports nationwide.

Việt Nam urges Laos to rethink Mekong River dams

The Mekong Delta will disappear in the next several decades once Pak Beng Dam and another 10 planned hydropower dams are built on the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia, delegates warned at a conference on Saturday in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ.

Smart-card toll collection begins

The Việt Nam Expressway Corporation (VEC) yesterday began a new system of collecting tolls using smart cards on the HCM City-Long Thành-Dầu Giây Expressway, which connects HCM City and Đồng Nai Province.  

 

VN faces dire shortage of logistics personnel

Việt Nam needs some 200,000 logistics personnel from now until 2025 but its current logistics training capacity is unable to meet that demand, according to the Việt Nam Association of Logistic Service Enterprise (VLA).

Vocational learning: pathway to success

Nguyễn Văn Thiết had dreamed of winning the ASEAN Skills Competition, but when his parents insisted that he apply for university, his hopes were dashed.

Man arrested for allegedly abusing rights

Police of the central province of Nghệ An yesterday detained a man for allegedly opposing officials on duty and abusing his rights to freedom and democracy to infringe on State interests and the rights and interests of organisations and individuals.

PM: Top local leaders bear heavy responsibility

Maintaining law and order is necessary for Việt Nam to achieve good socio-economic development, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said at an online meeting with all localities nationwide yesterday.

17 tourists suffer food poisoning in Đà Nẵng

A group of 17 tourists from Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province who were on a field trip to Đà Nẵng were admitted to the city’s General Hospital on Sunday night, suffering from food poisoning.

Bottom trawling a threat to the ocean, fishermen

Bottom trawling is a particularly destructive method of fishing, in which huge weighted nets are dragged the sea floor, catching everything in their path, leaving behind a trail of emptiness.

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