President Trần Đại Quang has written to President Vladimir Putin thanking him, the Government, and people of Russia for the prompt and valuable aid sent to the Vietnamese people affected by typhoon Damrey.

Although access to credit is seen as a key factor in ending poverty, just 29 per cent or so rural households have received loans, a new report says.

 Dumping waste mud into Quy Nhơn City’s sea must not harm natural protection and aquaculture production areas, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Trần Hồng Hà said.

The Cardiovascular Centre under the Cần Thơ Central General Hospital, which is the largest and most modern centre in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta, opened on Tuesday (Nov 7) in Cần Thơ.

Experts have called for widening roads, improving transport connectivity and greater use of technology to prevent congestion outside Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City.

Hundreds of households in An Tiên Village, Xuân Giang Commune of central province of Hà Tĩnh's Nghi Xuân District are living in fear due to a large petrol warehouse which has come up in the vicinity, on an area of 14,000sq.m and belonging to Miền Trung Company.

The undersea Asia-America Gateway (AAG) internet cable – one of the six cables connecting Việt Nam with the rest of the world – has ruptured since Tuesday morning.

The Ministry of Health has promulgated a document to inspect the quality of hospitals and medical workers and satisfaction of patients this year.

The number of victims of Typhoon Damrey continues to rise, with 89 killed, 18 missing and 174 injured in the central and south-central regions.

A large-scale weapon ring specialising in manufacturing, using and trafficking military weapons in several cities and provinces across the country has been raided and busted, HCM City police force said on Nov 6.

The transition from Việt Nam’s decades-old household residency book system to a new online national database will not take place until 2020, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

A lack of nutrition among pregnant women and those breastfeeding their babies is common in Việt Nam, with deficiencies in zinc, folate, vitamin A and calcium, according to experts.

In the first 10 months, 45 cases of measles – including one death – have been recorded in Hà Nội, against the northern region’s 99 cases and the country’s total figure of 229 cases.

The HCM City Buddhist Sangha elected a new executive board to serve in the 2017-2022 period at a conference yesterday.

Diverging from the common view that a smart city only means leveraging technology to resolve social issues, the southern province of Bình Dương has opted for a different path: building a smart city with focus on people, knowledge and smart co-operation, Dr. Nguyễn Việt Long, director of the Bình Dương Smart City Office, said.

Officials from the naval command of the north central coast carry the body of a fisherman whose boat sank because of Typhoon Damrey near Quy Nhơn Port back to the mainland.

Health authorities have confirmed bacteria as the main cause behind a mass poisoning that affected hundreds of children at two primary schools in the southern province of Hậu Giang after they drank a mixture of chocolate milk late last month.

Quality assurance to uplift higher education will ensure a country has a highly qualified workforce, Assoc Prof Nantana Gajaseni, acting chairwoman of the ASEAN University Network - Quality Assurance (AUN-QA), has said.