City urges Pennisula land clearance

All the land needed to develop the Thủ Thiêm urban area in HCM City’s District 2 must be acquired this year, People’s Committee Chairman Nguyễn Thành Phong has told the project management board.

Dropping anchor

RSS Endurance of the Singaporean Navy, with 180 crew members aboard, led by Major Lee Kwok So, anchored in Cam Ranh port in the south central province of Khánh Hòa yesterday, beginning a five-day visit to Vietnam.

VietGap a windfall for shrimp farmers

Led by high-tech methods, the VietGAP-compliant shrimp farming project is bringing previously unseen wealth to the southernmost province of Cà Mau.

Health minister visits HCM City health facilities

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến yesterday instructed the preventive health sector to focus on effective prevention and control of both contagious and non-communicable diseases such as cancers on her working visit to the HCMC Pasteur Institute.

Child dies from meningococcal disease

A 30-month-old child with meningococcal meningitis died on Monday, prompting health officials to take preventive measures against the spread of the disease.

 

Unusual rise in pinkeye infections

Pinkeye cases have been occurring nationwide in a scattered manner, but they are tending to increase and can spread rapidly if preventive measures are not taken, health experts warn.

One missing, 11 injured in fishing ship explosion

The Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre No 3 in Vũng Tàu City on Friday assigned a ship and some doctors to rush to the scene and provide first aid to 11 seamen who had met with an accident at sea.

Paraquat poisoning kills 1,000 every year

Doctors from Bạch Mai Hospital in Hà Nội have reported at least one patient everyday hospitalised due to herbicide poisoning, popularly known as paraquat poisoning.

PM tours tech park

The Government will issue a new decree on mechanisms for the Hòa Lạc Hi-Tech Park, enabling it to play an extremely important role in enhancing the country’s science and technology capacity, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said on Thursday on a visit to the park.

Vinashin employees on trial

The Hà Nội’s People’s Court yesterday began a four-day first-instance court hearing in the Vinashin Ocean Shipping Company Ltd. (Vinashinlines) embezzlement case.

48 vehicles fined for using rapid bus lanes

Forty-eight vehicles, including 6 cars and 42 motorbikes, were fined by Hà Nội police on Wednesday, the first day stricter rules were implemented for the dedicated bus rapid transit (BRT) lanes.

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