More than 40 per cent of students in big cities such as Hà Nội and HCM City suffer from eye refractive defect, in which myopia accounts for two-thirds of cases, according to the statistic of health sector.
More than 90 per cent of HCM City’s CO2 emissions in 2013 came from transportation and stationary energy, which refers to fuel consumption for electricity generation, manufacturing, construction and others like domestic heating.
Việt Nam led the Asia Pacific region’s most generous market, with 78.5 per cent of consumers giving to charities.
Nearly 400 primary school students in the southern province of Hậu Giang underwent medical examinations yesterday morning after drinking free milk at school, 30 of them were hospitalised with symptoms of digestive disorder.
A man named Nam from Hà Nam Province called a taxi to take his father from the Việt Nam-Germany Hospital in Hà Nội to the nearby Hà Nội Heart Hospital for medical tests. However, taxi drivers in front of the building refused to make the trip due to the short distance between the two hospitals.
The daily lives of more than 1,000 families in Hà Nội’s Chương Mỹ District are returning to normal thanks to the resumption of power supply.
The citizens of Đà Nẵng have been asked to smile during the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Eonomic Leaders' Meeting on November 5-11.
The Ministry of Defence has agreed to hand over land to HCM City authorities for construction of a flyover near Tần Sơn Nhất International Airport to prevent the constant traffic jams that occur there.
The number of juvenile drug traffickers who are ethnic minorities along the Vietnamese-Lao border route in central Quảng Trị Province has been on the high rise in the past five years.
A database to store, standardise and manage the basic information of all Vietnamese citizens will be put in use by early 2019, the Ministry of Public Security said, with the aim of simplifying administrative procedures.
Prenatal and postnatal screening programmes have helped detect health problems of infants in a timely manner, a hospital doctor said at a conference held in HCM City on October 26.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc asked for prompt measures to be taken to support flood-hit communities’ re-building efforts during a meeting with officials from the four provinces recently hit by the disaster in Hà Nội on Thursday.
The HCM City Department of Planning and Investment has asked the city’s People’s Committee to approve a new flood-prevention project funded by Denmark.
Alley No 158 on Nguyễn Sơn Street in Hà Nội’s Long Biên District is infamously called the “paradise of hand carried goods (HCGs)”.
A more specific and accurate storm forecast will help mitigate the impact of the natural disaster, according to experts.
A bank teller of the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade’s (Vietinbank) Long Thành Branch has been arrested for allegedly appropriating billions of Vietnamese đồng.
Police of Đồng Hới City in the central province of Quảng Bình have launched an official investigation into an assault on a doctor at a city hospital.
Rain comes along with terrible fear for the villagers of Ninh Thượng in Khánh Hòa Province.