Việt Nam News

South Korea plans to open a consulate office in Đà Nẵng city to help the flow of tourism and investment between the two countries.

There will be a boom in green buildings in Việt Nam if the community’s awareness of environmental protection improves, an expert told a symposium in HCM City on Thursday.

The central province of Quang Nam has fined Taiwan-invested garment factory Vast Apparel Việt Nam VNĐ350 million (US$15,500) for discharging sub-standard waste-water into the environment.

Public tourism management authorities should not be wary of tourism investors but closely collaborate with them in environmental preservation, said Dr Nguyễn Hoàng Trí, secretary of the National Committee for UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) in Việt Nam.

The HCM City Department of Education and Training has urged administrators at primary and secondary schools to reduce traffic congestion during peak hours when parents and others pick up students.

The Government has adopted a five-point action plan designed to create a good investment and business climate for the development of the private sector.

A project, entitled “Gender-sensitive community-based disaster risk management project in ethnic minority areas of North-West Việt Nam,” has helped in improving people’s resilience to natural disasters.

Organiser of the programme "Pride of Vietnamese Farmers" officially declared the list of 63 outstanding Vietnamese farmers of 2017 on Thursday.

The Health Ministry has launched a project wherein by 2020, all pharmacies will be required to sell antibiotics only to patients carrying doctors’ prescriptions.

Hoà Bình Province’s Traffic Police Department yesterday seized 16 illegal sand exploitation vessels on Đà River in Hoà Bình City.

Conjoined twins joined at the coccyx area were succesfully separated at the Children’s Hospital II, announced the hospital officials at a press conference on Wednesday. 

Local authorities have warned locals of the threat of lightning while working in the open field, but not many consider it could be fatal.

Associate Professor Lương Ngọc Khuê, head of the Health Ministry’s Department of Medical Examination and Treatment, has asked K (Cancer) Hospital to review its treatment procedure of a female patient who died after a drug was injected.

It was unreasonable to deny inspecting and qualifying cars just because the previous owners had not paid traffic fines, according to a former Traffic Police Department official. 

Some 24 types of supplements and medicines of unknown origin were found by the Department of Crime Prevention and Environmental Crime (PC 49), under Cần Thơ City Police on Tuesday.

Việt Nam’s new law on State Compensation Liability is expected to create transparent mechanisms for compensating people mistreated by authorities, Deputy Minister of Justice Nguyễn Khánh Ngọc said yesterday.

With traditional medicine still popular in Việt Nam, many breast cancer patients use unscientific and useless herbal cures to fight tumours, leaving them with more dangerous cancer and often severe side effects, according to doctors.

After seeing parents grieving the deaths of children who drown every year during the flood season, a resident of the Mekong Delta province of Đồng Tháp Province decided to volunteer as a swimming coach.