Việt Nam News

Doctors at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City has performed surgery for the first time using indocyanine fluorescence imaging to treat gastric cancer.

More than 70 per cent of the Vietnamese population has fully escaped poverty, with at least 14 million having joint the global middle class, a World Bank report found on Thursday.

Đắk Glong District People’s Court in Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông on Thursday sentenced a former major to nine months in prison for the crime of forest destruction.

The People’s Court in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang has sentenced 27 defendants in a case of illegal trading of value added tax (VAT) invoices.

The northern province of Quảng Ninh will temporarily suspend the licensing of karaoke and discotheque services throughout the province to complete planning for these activities.

A National Blood Centre will be formed under the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT), as decided by the Ministry of Health.

HCM City Public Transport Management Centre has proposed raising the bus fares by VNĐ1,000 (4 US cents) to recover the costs of purchasing new buses.

The fire in TexhongYinlong Technology Limited’s Factory No. 4 in the northen province of Quảng Ninh will be extinguished by the end of Thursday, according to local authorities, Vietnam News Agency reported.

Two children drowned in the central province of Hà Tĩnh yesterday afternoon. The case has prompted calls for extra classes on swimming in schools.

The fight against corruption was a rare highlight of the Government’s efforts to improve public administration, as citizens in more than half of the country believed corruption was better controlled in 2017, a report found on Wednesday.

The national high school entrance exam is still two months away, but Vũ Minh Hiển, a senior secondary school student in Hà Nội, has started feeling the pressure.

Under the hot afternoon sun in a small workshop, Lê Thị Thùy Vân is busy weaving plastic chairs along with six other women.

Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City yesterday (April 4) began using an advanced radiotherapy system called Versa HD to improve treatment precision, productivity and efficiency.

The central city’s tourism department has asked the Immigration Administration of Việt Nam under the Ministry of Public Security to ban Chinese tour guide Wang Jihong from entering Việt Nam due to her distortion of Vietnamese history and culture during a tour in the city in February.

Government bonds used for the construction of the Đèo Cả tunnel project are to be reclaimed under a decision made by Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

HCM City People’s Committee has set a new price for management services for apartment buildings.

Developing special tourism activities and improving the skills of tourism staff are among the measures needed for HCM City’s tourism sector, speakers said at a forum on regional tourism held yesterday (April 4) in the city.

As of Wednesday, only 179 out of 718 multi-storey apartment buildings in Hà Nội had fire insurance, according to the Hà Nội Fire Prevention and Control Police Department.