About 126,000 people have tuberculosis (TB) in Việt Nam, but fewer than 106,000 have received treatment, while the others are undetected and sometimes unaware of their status, said Director of the Hà Nội-based Central Lung Hospital Nguyễn Viết Nhung.
Caring for preemies is a nerve-wracking ordeal at the National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Hà Nội.
Trigger-finger and trigger-thumb, the painful condition common in middle-aged women and people with diabetes, may occur in young people who overuse smartphones.
Vũng Tàu suffered a city-wide blackout for several hours yesterday after a fire broke out at a packaging producer on the city’s Võ Nguyên Giáp Street.
A cold spell continued strengthening in the northern region yesterday, according to the National Hydrology Meteorology Forecast Centre.
Only nine out of 25 provinces in the northern region have developed a green-growth strategy. Another two provinces are in the process of approving the innovations.
Nearly 65,000 kindergarten and primary school students throughout the country have been taught about proper nutrition and physical activities through a programme undertaken by the Việt Nam Red Cross Society and FrieslandCampina Việt Nam.
The second phase of a project on enhancing the capacity of the Việt Nam Red Cross (VNRC) was launched at a ceremony here today.
The broken water pipe caused by serious floods in south central coastal Bình Định Province one week ago has affected nearly 3,800 households in Tuy Phước District, an official said.
The People’s Committee of the southern Tây Ninh Province has approved of a VNĐ1 trillion (US$44 million) project on building a canal irrigation system, located west of the Vàm Cỏ Đông River.
Samples of poultry and pork collected from local markets in five southern provinces and cities were reported to be contaminated with the E. coli bacteria due to unhygienic conditions at marketplaces, said Dr Nguyễn Vũ Thượng, deputy director of HCM City’s Pasteur Institute.
Many schools in HCM City fall short of fire safety standards, putting thousands of lives at risk, according to the city’s Department of Fire Fighting and Prevention.
Signs of revival have brightened up Mù Cang Chải District in northern mountainous Yên Bái Province, three months after a historic flood swept through the area.
Hà Nội Police in Cầu Giấy District has detained a man for prosecution of his act for physically abusing his nine-year-old son, resulted in scaring and several injures on the little boy’s body.
Huỳnh Hữu Cảnh and his cousin were digging up an iron object one day when a bomb left over from the war exploded, killing his cousin and leaving Cảnh, then in the fourth grade, blind.
Thirteen students in Bắc Ninh Province fell down from the second floor and wounded after a balcony of the school suddenly collapsed on Monday afternoon.
HCM City wants to increase government workers’salary so that they match at least the minimum wage in the industrial sector.
Thousands of households living along Cái River in Khánh Vĩnh and Diên Khánh districts and Nha Trang City of Khánh Hòa Province have complained that sand mining is affecting their production land.
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The Hà Nội People’s Court today resumes legal proceedings against an illegal virtual gold trading floor that involves top managers of the Hà Nội-based Khải Thái Consultant Limited Company (KTIC).
