Việt Nam News

The HCM City Department of Education and Training has urged administrators at primary and secondary schools to reduce traffic congestion during peak hours when parents and others pick up students.

The Government has adopted a five-point action plan designed to create a good investment and business climate for the development of the private sector.

A project, entitled “Gender-sensitive community-based disaster risk management project in ethnic minority areas of North-West Việt Nam,” has helped in improving people’s resilience to natural disasters.

Organiser of the programme "Pride of Vietnamese Farmers" officially declared the list of 63 outstanding Vietnamese farmers of 2017 on Thursday.

The Health Ministry has launched a project wherein by 2020, all pharmacies will be required to sell antibiotics only to patients carrying doctors’ prescriptions.

Hoà Bình Province’s Traffic Police Department yesterday seized 16 illegal sand exploitation vessels on Đà River in Hoà Bình City.

Conjoined twins joined at the coccyx area were succesfully separated at the Children’s Hospital II, announced the hospital officials at a press conference on Wednesday. 

Local authorities have warned locals of the threat of lightning while working in the open field, but not many consider it could be fatal.

Associate Professor Lương Ngọc Khuê, head of the Health Ministry’s Department of Medical Examination and Treatment, has asked K (Cancer) Hospital to review its treatment procedure of a female patient who died after a drug was injected.

It was unreasonable to deny inspecting and qualifying cars just because the previous owners had not paid traffic fines, according to a former Traffic Police Department official. 

Some 24 types of supplements and medicines of unknown origin were found by the Department of Crime Prevention and Environmental Crime (PC 49), under Cần Thơ City Police on Tuesday.

Việt Nam’s new law on State Compensation Liability is expected to create transparent mechanisms for compensating people mistreated by authorities, Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyễn Khánh Ngọc said yesterday.

With traditional medicine still popular in Việt Nam, many breast cancer patients use unscientific and useless herbal cures to fight tumours, leaving them with more dangerous cancer and often severe side effects, according to doctors.

After seeing parents grieving the deaths of children who drown every year during the flood season, a resident of the Mekong Delta province of Đồng Tháp Province decided to volunteer as a swimming coach.

Phan Thanh Tiền can now focus on his work at a garment company in HCM City’s Củ Chi District as his 4 ½-year-old son is being taken care of at an officially licensed public kindergarten in the industrial park where he works.

The Việt Nam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) yesterday proposed not to increase the regional minimum wage next year.

Việt Nam’s medium-term economic outlook remains positive, with GDP growth rate projected to accelerate slightly to 6.3 per cent in 2017, according to the latest World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, released yesterday.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to speed up resettlement of residents living in landslide areas along the river and canals.