Việt Nam News

Vũ Thị Lan had worked for 10 years at an electronic assembly factory in the Quang Minh Industrial Zone (IZ) when she received her pink slip in mid-April.

An additional VNĐ20 trillion (US$883 million) needed for infrastructure projects by 2020 will have to come from the city budget as well as from private sources, as disbursement of state budget funds remains slow, the deputy chairman of the city’s People’s Committee, Trần Vĩnh Tuyến, has said.

 A row of cheap rooms for rent run by Nguyễn Thế Hiệp, 70, in Hà Nội’s Đê La Thành Street, near the National Hospital of Pediatrics, has become the second home for dozens of relatives of children that treated in the hospital for a decade.

Quảng Trị Province has asked the Duy Tân Mineral Development Co Ltd to temporarily stop exploiting sand from the river in Cửa Việt Town.

Việt Nam won one gold and two bronze medals at the 29th International Olympiad in Informatics recently held in Iran. 

The Ministry of Health on Thursday sent an official document to health departments in all provinces and cities asking for stricter management of medical equipment at state-owned medical stations.

The Đồng Nai Traffic Safety Committee, in co-ordination with local authorities, has closed all illegal road-railway crossing in the province since March this year.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Wednesday launched the Việt Nam National Action Plan for management of antibiotic use and control of antibiotic resistance in livestock production and aquaculture 2017-2020.

HCM City People’s Committee has asked the Ministry of Transport to approve an investment plan to build an interchange at a traffic-clogged area in An Phú Ward in the city’s District 2.

The Mekong Delta region lacks doctors to treat major ailments like tuberculosis, leprosy and mental illnesses, as also surgeons and forensic experts, health department representatives said at a conference in Cần Thơ City on Tuesday.

The Vietnamese Association of Diabetes and Endocrinology and the American Diabetes Association have kicked off phase two of an international specialised education programme in diabetes, or iSTEP-D.

Phạm Văn Nhẫn, 52, a farmer living in northern Hà Nam Province’s Tri Ngôn Village, has spent 34 years helping dozens of people with mental illness.

“Welcome to Homestay Mr Kim” in Cao Bằng.

It took a lot of effort for Nguyễn Thị Hòa, a resident of the coastal city of Hải Phòng’s Tú Đôi Village, to learn how to use scissors.

Quite a few transport projects in Hà Nội’s rural areas are not up to scratch due to lack of capital and difficulties in disbursing investments.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc discussed various issues while chairing the Government’s regular meeting for July in Hà Nội on Thursday, asking officials to take measures to ensure their sectors and agencies reach this year’s growth targets.

Anti-retroviral (ARV) therapy and methadone maintenance therapy will be offered at the same health facilities to achieve the UN’s 90-90-90 goals by 2020, according to the Việt Nam Administration for HIV/AIDS Control.

The Ministry of Education and Training has approved a new general education programme, focused on reducing the number of subjects and periods.