Việt Nam News

The investigative police of the capital city’s Hai Bà Trưng District on Tuesday took into custody two suspects in connection with the assault of a foreigner and began prosecution of the case.

 The capital city will reopen some 130 spans of centenary arch bridges that have been sealed with concrete for more than a decade.

HCM City has set up a special task force to look into the expansion the Tân Sơn Nhất Airport and submit to the Government early September, a city leader has said.

The Charity Meal Project yesterday was launched in HCM City to provide free pork, rice and other food items to shelters, centres and nursing homes that take care of people with disabilities and the elderly throughout the country.

Doctor Nguyễn Chiến Quyết completed his first surgery as lead surgeon last Wednesday, performing a hernia operation on a four-year-old Mông ethnic boy, at Bắc Hà District General Hospital in the northern mountainous province of Lào Cai.

People who have children especially at the age of between 5 and 15 and in the Mekong Delta should take preventive measures against Japanese encephalitis, which breaks out between June and October every year, a doctor at the HCM City Paediatrics Hospital said.

The number of dengue infections has risen significantly in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta, particularly in Cần Thơ City and the provinces of Đồng Tháp, Bến Tre, Cà Mau and Tiền Giang, according to the Ministry of Health.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked the Department of Transport to seek measures to tackle traffic congestion at 37 traffic-congestion hotpots across the city, including those at seaports.

Endovascular intervention, which is a minimally invasive procedure performed in many countries in the world, is also becoming a more commom treatment in Việt Nam, according to experts.

Developing high quality, climate resilient seeds and making them available in the market under a strong and holistic legal framework would greatly benefit farmers and be critical in transforming the agricultural sector, Hoàng Văn Thắng, vice minister at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), said.

The Government Inspectorate has sent a team to Yên Bái Province on Tuesday to examine suspected land mismanagement and misuse by the director of the province’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Phạm Sỹ Quý.

Two shipbuilders were found to be violating shipbuilding contracts, delivering dozens of substandard steel fishing vessels to fishermen in central Bình Định Province

The Ministry of Public Security’s (MPS) investigating agency on Monday initiated a nation-level search for the former general director of Petrochemical and Textile Fibre Joint Stock Company (PVTex).

More than 9,500 traffic accidents occurred across the country in the first six months of this year, killing more than 4,100 people and injuring more than 7,900, according to the National Committee for Traffic Safety.

Doctors at the Định Quán Town General Hospital in the southern province of Đồng Nai successfully operated on a 16-year-old after he was stabbed in the heart.

Hà Nội Urban Traffic Works Investment Management Board has proposed the city allocate fund to upgrade eight weak bridges.

The Việt Nam Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre (VMRCC), in co-ordination with the Nghệ An Border Guards, yesterday successfully rescued a fishing ship with 17 seamen having accident on the sea.

The rapid rise of apartment blocks along several small roads in Hà Nội has strained traffic infrastructure with thousands of new residents arriving at once.