Việt Nam News

A doctor’s initiative to do something extra for his patients proves to be an uplifting experience for both.

In the action month of drug prevention and control, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs calls for the community to help drug users to help them reintegrate into the community.

Hùng Vương Hospital, which specialises in obstetrics and gynaecology, has been chosen to administer the HPV (Aptima human papillomavirus) test to detect the presence and activity of high-risk HPV.

Diabetes patients in Việt Nam will be able to benefit from a project, entitled 'First day of diabetic’s life', launched at a ceremony in Hà Nội on June 30.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has requested the Ministry of Transport (MoT) and other authorised agencies at the local level to make thorough assessments on all transport investment projects.

Poverty and gender inequality are said to be key drivers of child marriage in Việt Nam, particularly in ethnic minority communities in rural areas.

The central Quảng Trị Province will lay a new water pipeline swiftly so that Vân Hòa villagers stop consuming metal-contaminated underground water, which is suspectedly making them ill.

The number of children admitted to the Hà Nội-based National Paediatrics Hospital for disorders following the use of a traditional medicine called thuốc cam has increased.

Many parents in Hà Nội have forced their children to take on extra classes to revise and prepare for the coming academic year in spite of the city’s ban on additional schooling in June and July.

Việt Nam’s software industry and investment environment will be the featured topics at a Việt Nam IT Outsourcing Conference held on October 19-20 at the convention centre at Quang Trung Software City in HCM City’s District 12.

HCM City needs Europe’s experience and solutions to create smart cities, a conference heard Friday.

HCM City plans to begin construction of 48 new projects and complete 19 traffic congestion projects in the last six months of the year, according to the city’s Department of Transport.

In co-operation with Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF), the central city has officially debuted a new public bus route as part of Đà Nẵng’s urban traffic corridor improvement project.

For hundreds of years, S’Tiêng ethnic group in Central Highland Province of Lâm Đồng has been living in forest  in the bordering area among Lâm Đồng, Bình Phước and Đồng Nai, now better known as Cát Tiên National Park.

The investigative unit of the police in the capital city’s Hoàn Kiếm District on Friday began criminal proceedings against a citizen who assaulted a female street sweeper.

Hà Nội Police on Friday prosecuted two company directors for trading counterfeit products after police and the Market Watch Division last month confiscated more than 600 water filters illegally labeled “Made in US”.

The HCM City police have detained restaurant owner Trần Tuấn Minh, 22, for allegedly misappropriating nearly VNĐ700 million (US$31,100) from an Australian.

As many as 123 villas that should have been on the list of must-preserved villas in Hà Nội were demolished because of mismanagement by relevant agencies, a report of the municipal People’s Council revealed.