Việt Nam News

Việt Nam needs to develop a legal framework and feasible roadmap to turn its wind energy potential into reality, which will help to meet the country’s rapidly rising electricity demand, experts have said.

Doctors warn that using same non-sterile hand gloves or medical instruments for several patients may spread germs. Risk of disease is detected not only at clinics but also hospitals, especially through respiratory or contagious routes.

Farmers in the central Quảng Trị and Hà Tĩnh provinces were hit the hardest by storms Talas and Sonca as their fruits and plants were damaged by strong winds and floods.

The HCM City’s District 1 People’s Committee has announced that the district’s first two street vendor spaces will open on August 28.

An increase in the regional minimum wage in 2018 has not yet been finalised because of differences over the margin of increase of the wage.

HCM City government's revenues in the first seven months of the year increased by 16 per cent year-on-year to VNĐ188 trillion (US$8.35 billion).

The recently opened HCM City Paediatrics Hospital in the outlying district of Bình Chánh will begin inpatient examination and treatment when it inaugurates its new building on August 1, according to the city Department of Health.

Disciplinary action will be initiated against five government officials in the central province of Hà Tĩnh who were involved in the mass fish deaths last year.

Dozens of  people in Phước Tân Commune, Biên Hòa City in the southern province of Đồng Nai are concerned they were exposed to HIV after chasing down and apprehending two dog thieves, one of whom was carrying the virus.

The Health Ministry has asked Kiên Giang Province’s Health Department to verify media reports about an infant’s death at Phú Quốc General Hospital and submit a report before August 1.

The People’s Committee of Hạ Long City on Thursday requested the inland waterway port authority to suspend all activities of the 14 wooden cruise boats operating in Hạ Long Bay.

Seven Vietnamese citizens were killed in flash floods and landslides in Mengshan County, Wuzhou City, Guangxi Province, China, the consulate general of Việt Nam in Nanning has said.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked relevant ministries, agencies and localities to strengthen preventive measures against the spread of dengue fever, noting that it has developed in a “complicated manner” in many countries, including Việt Nam.

The HCM City Department of Transport has approved a project to build a drainage system along the Gia Định Canal and its networks in District 12.

Challenges, opportunities and solutions facing higher education institutions were the focus of a two-day international conference that began yesterday at the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation Regional Training Centre (SEAMEO RETRAC) in HCM City.

A group of eight scientists arrived in the central province of Bình Thuận on Thursday to assess the environmental protection plan related to the planned dumping of waste into the sea.

Sixty-four woman in HCM City were recognised with the State title of Vietnamese Heroic Mother for their contributions and sacrifice to the country’s liberation in celebration of the annual 70th Day for War Invalids and Martyrs on July 27.

The Việt Nam Expressway Corporation (VEC) will put into operation the first 65km road section of the 140km Đà Nẵng-Quảng Ngãi Expressway project – the first expressway in the central and central highlands region – from August 2nd.