Wearing helmets and driving slowly are two of the measures promoted to ensure traffic safety for children, announced at a ceremony launching the ‘Go home safely’ campaign in Hà Nội on Saturday, which calls for community action to ensure kids are safe on the roads.
A midwife-training programme has achieved noticeable success with a marked reduction in the number of mothers giving birth at home as well as childbirth complications and deaths.
Night after night, thousands of cubic metres of sand and gravel have been illegally mined from a portion of the Cầu River, causing erosion and affecting the dyke system for 200ha of agricultural land, online newspaper phapluatplus.vn reports.
Seven fishermen from Bình Định Province were rescued at sea yesterday after their boat encountered difficulties in rough conditions on Saturday morning.
Eighteen million Mekong Delta residents are suffering serious consequences as the Mekong River is drying up due to over exploitation of hydropower plants in upstream countries, delegates heard at Friday’s conference in the Delta province of An Giang.
Sixteen student teams from eight universities in HCM City participated in the Tourism Ideas Contest held in the HCM City’s Bình Thạnh District.
The UN Women and the Australian Embassy in Vietnam are calling on labourers to participate in an online survey to assess the effects of the revision of the Labour Code on men, women and different labour groups in society.
There has been a 91 per cent reduction in the amount of goods controlled by the Ministry of Science and Technology inspected before customs clearance.
The 10th HCM City Book Fair will be held from March 19-25 at District 1’s Lê Văn Tám Park, according to the city’s Department of Information and Communication.
With suitable weather for a tropical plant which requires high humidity, Sơn La northern mountain province is becoming a good region for development of macadamia tree. The province is expected to gain a target of 1,000ha of macadamia tree by 2020.
HCM City has approved the extension of the city’s first metro route, which links Bến Thành Market with Suối Tiên Theme Park in District 9, to the neighbouring provinces of Bình Dương and Đồng Nai.
Việt Nam must step up efforts to ensure 90 per cent of HIV-infected people will receive sustained antiretroviral (ARV) therapy by 2020, in line with the international UN target, Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam said at a meeting of National Committee for AIDS, Prostitution and Drug Prevention yesterday.
More than 30 booths manned by 24 individuals and groups introduce more than 100 products made by young people at a start-up festival in Huế in central Thừa Thiên-Huế Province yesterday.
Retirement is the time for people to enjoy their lives, but a group of war veterans in the central province of Khánh Hòa want to devote their tgwilight years helping comrades in need. The veterans have set up a health clinic to provide free check-ups, health counselling and medicine to fellow veterans who lack health insurance cards or are victims of agent orange.
Fifty percent of all communes across the country are expected to be recognised as new-style rural areas in 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) stated at a conference in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ on December 8.
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Lawyer Ngô Anh Tuấn has proposed implementing specific regulations on acts of child sexual abuse and lowering the age of criminal responsibility for such abusers from 18 to 16.
Đà Nẵng University has opened a Technical Teachers’ Training College to train 2,000 students at four technological and engineering faculties.
Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has ordered the central province of Bình Định's Police Department to quickly complete its investigation into 60ha of a local forest being illegally chopped down in An Lão District’s An Hưng Commune in August.
Private hospitals that have signed health-insurance contracts with Việt Nam Social Insurance (VSI) will continue the contracts next year. However, private healthcare facilities must now have their classifications authorised by the Ministry of Health.
Hà Nội should finalise regulations on construction management to eliminate overlapping responsibilities between agencies, and also to clarify inspection duties to better deter construction violations, experts have said.
