Việt Nam News

It is necessary to address health financing issues and strengthen health systems against the growing multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) epidemic, which has become a growing global concern, according to Việt Nam’s Ministry of Health.

The mutual recognition of test results at 38 central hospitals in Hà Nội has been implemented since August 1^st. More than half of the month has passed; however, this procedure has showed humble impacts.

The People’s Court in Hà Nôị has sentenced four men to death for illegally transporting 75 bricks of heroin.

The central city plans to install security camera systems at 153 sites in serving for the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) Summit in 2017 and public security.

The southern province of Đồng Nai is worried about the increasing number of doctors quitting jobs at public hospitals to work at private ones for better income.

The municipal administration of HCM City aims to keep the rate of overweight and obese children under five years at less than 12 per cent by 2020.

More than 1,200 healthcare managers will need new jobs when provincial centres for preventive health, HIV/AIDS, malaria and others are merged into one general Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in each province, as required by the Ministry of Health by 2021.

A Vietnamese expert addressed an APEC event yesterday on one of the region and world’s most significant demographic developments: rapidly aging populations.

Electronic filing of intellectual property applications and its efforts to join the Hague Agreement were the two experiences Việt Nam chose to talk about at the 45^th meeting of the Intellectual Property Experts Group (IPEG) which opened in HCM City on Tuesday.

HCM City earned more than VNĐ14.6 billion (US$663,000) from advertisements on buses last year, according to the city’s Public Transport Management and Operation Centre.

The transport department of the port city of Hải Phòng's decision to gather a hundred coach buses at one station has met with opposition from the owners of the vehicles.

Health Department of central province of Thanh Hóa on Tuesday fined a private clinic VNĐ60 million (US$ 2,640) for illegally offering healthcare services and medicines.

 Developing sustainable partnership between the State and civil society organisations (CSOs) is an inevitable requirement. Việt Nam has tremendous potential to develop the partnership but has not fully exploited it, experts said at a conference on Tuesday.

Thirty-seven new landslide points have been discovered on the Hạ Long-Vân Đồn Expressway, the northern province of Quảng Ninh, local authorities reported.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình on Monday called on continued close supervision on the operation of the Taiwan-invested steel company – Formosa Hà Tĩnh –to avoid any violations.

Food security has become an increasing concern for many APEC economies who are facing multiple challenges from the impacts of climate change, which threatens sustainable agriculture and food security.

Hà Nội police plan to increase inspections to uncover human trafficking rings, focusing on inter-provincial and transnational criminals.

 Ngọc Lây Commune in the Central Highlands, where the Ngoc Linh ginseng was first discovered in 1973, is planting the đương quy, a crop that has developed fast across Tu Mơ Rông District.