Việt Nam News

A 45-seat passenger bus running on the capital’s belt-ring road in the direction of Cầu Giấy Road crashed into the rear of a container car near the National Convention Centre at 4am Wednesday, local media reported.

The south is expected to face electricity shortages for the next three years as the construction of power plant projects is one to four years behind schedule, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

A high-level appeals court in Hà Nội yesterday upheld the prison sentences of three defendants for conducting propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam.

Đắk R’Lấp District General Hospital has received five patients with A/H1N1 virus since early this month in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông.

Teachers and therapists from schools and hospitals around the country on Monday resumed training in practical autism intervention skills.

The Cát Linh - Hà Đông elevated railway in Hà Nội has been connected to the national power grid for its trial operation this month, according to the railway project management board. The train has undergone a test run on each section in July before being tested on the whole system next month, a representative of the board said.

People require medical care even before they fall sick, said health minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến at the opening of a training programme to improve the quality of local clinics and the country’s grass-roots level health care system, in Đan Phượng District, Hà Nội.

People with HIV/AIDS in the south-eastern province of Đồng Nai who have public health insurance can now go to any medical facility for treatment without requiring a transfer order from their designated hospital.

The HCM City Federation of Labour on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Saigontourist Cable TV Company (SCTV) to carry out a preferential programme for low prices for television and internet service packages for manual workers.

A fire broke out at dawn and quickly ripped through 59 Việt households in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Tuesday, reported Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) online newspaper.

A plane was grounded at Đồng Hới Airport in Quảng Bình Province for repairs on Monday after a slight collision with a bird.

Doctors at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City performed surgery to remove a 4-kilo tumour in the abdomen of a 64-year-old woman late last month, the hospital said in a press release yesterday

In preparation for extreme weather event over upcoming days, the mountainous province of Lai Châu has come up with a plan to evacuate people living in high-risk areas of landslide, the Vietnam News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Thanh Hoá Province Police arrested two drug traffickers and seized two kilos of methamphetamine, 4,000 ecstasy pills, one handmade gun and five phones on Sunday afternoon following an extensive investigation,

More than 200 cases of measles have been reported in Hà Nội since the start of the year compared to just 60 cases that were recorded for the whole of last year, the city’s Department of Health has said.

Two passenger buses crashed on a highway in Krông Pắk District in the Tây Nguyên Central Highlands of Đắk Lắk on Monday, sending one plunging into a ditch many passengers were injured.

The HCM City People’s Court yesterday handed down the death sentence to Nguyễn Hữu Tình, 18, after he admitted to murdering five members of a family in Bình Tân District last February.

When they agreed to join the UN Peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, 73 Vietnamese officers knew they would have to leave behind their families to travel to the war-ravaged country.