Việt Nam News

Children aged nine to 16 were invited to talk about issues affecting their life, including sexual and physical abuse, at a forum organised last week by the Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs in HCM City. 

All people who suffer from life-threatening diseases will be eligible for palliative care, with the care beginning as soon as their diseases are detected, due to a change in a national guidance on palliative care.

This year’s natural disasters in Việt Nam have caused much severer consequences than the first seven months of 2016.

Early season flooding and heavy rainfall have severely damaged thousands of hectares of rice field in the Mekong Delta province of Long An. Water level in the province was 2.37m last Friday, some 1.53m higher than previous year’s figure with water level raising approximately 5-10cm every day.

A handicapped man in a poor rural village of the south central province Bình Định has been giving extra classes for disadvantaged children in his hometown for the last 30 years, totally free of charge.

A new centre that will offer rehabilitation and post-surgery care to Agent Orange victims will open by the end of the year in HCM City, according to the HCM City Association of Victims of Agent Orange.  

The Lao Minister of Labour and Social Welfare and Vietnamese Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affair agreed to boost the 2013 Việt Nam-Laos Labour Cooperation Pact and to search for the remains of Vietnamese martyrs and experts who died in Laos.

Vũ Thị Lan had worked for 10 years at an electronic assembly factory in the Quang Minh Industrial Zone (IZ) when she received her pink slip in mid-April.

An additional VNĐ20 trillion (US$883 million) needed for infrastructure projects by 2020 will have to come from the city budget as well as from private sources, as disbursement of state budget funds remains slow, the deputy chairman of the city’s People’s Committee, Trần Vĩnh Tuyến, has said.

 A row of cheap rooms for rent run by Nguyễn Thế Hiệp, 70, in Hà Nội’s Đê La Thành Street, near the National Hospital of Pediatrics, has become the second home for dozens of relatives of children that treated in the hospital for a decade.

Quảng Trị Province has asked the Duy Tân Mineral Development Co Ltd to temporarily stop exploiting sand from the river in Cửa Việt Town.

Việt Nam won one gold and two bronze medals at the 29th International Olympiad in Informatics recently held in Iran. 

The Ministry of Health on Thursday sent an official document to health departments in all provinces and cities asking for stricter management of medical equipment at state-owned medical stations.

The Đồng Nai Traffic Safety Committee, in co-ordination with local authorities, has closed all illegal road-railway crossing in the province since March this year.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Wednesday launched the Việt Nam National Action Plan for management of antibiotic use and control of antibiotic resistance in livestock production and aquaculture 2017-2020.

HCM City People’s Committee has asked the Ministry of Transport to approve an investment plan to build an interchange at a traffic-clogged area in An Phú Ward in the city’s District 2.

The Mekong Delta region lacks doctors to treat major ailments like tuberculosis, leprosy and mental illnesses, as also surgeons and forensic experts, health department representatives said at a conference in Cần Thơ City on Tuesday.

The Vietnamese Association of Diabetes and Endocrinology and the American Diabetes Association have kicked off phase two of an international specialised education programme in diabetes, or iSTEP-D.