Việt Nam News

More doctors at hospitals in provinces and districts throughout the country will receive training courses on treatment of dengue fever, as the number of cases has increased since the end of May and overcrowding continues at city and central-level hospitals.

Police in HCM City and Cần Thơ City this week busted two gambling rings, arresting about 73 people and seizing VNĐ474 million (US$) in cash.

Việt Nam’s regulations on the standard and condition of foreign equipment, facilities and technological lines to be imported to the country are facing objections from foreign enterprises.

HCM City is seeking more funds from the private sector for family planning and reproductive health care services as international aid and Government funds have both declined in recent years.

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến on Thursday promulgated an instruction on managing private clinics.

A land lot at the heart of the Đồng Tâm dispute was not agricultural land like the residents claimed, but belonged to the military, the Hà Nội Inspectorate announced on Friday morning.

The Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng should build an agricultural wholesale distribution centre together with the private sector to develop its farm processing capacity, Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has said.

Customs officials at HCM City’s Cát Lái Port on Wednesday seized a container of used refrigeration products and electronic devices transported from Japan.

Vietnamese and foreign health experts are meeting at a two-day conference that began yesterday (July 6) at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City to discuss the latest techniques used to treat kidney stones and renal tumours.

Twenty-six households in Vầy Nưa Commune, Đà Bắc District, northern Hòa Bình Province, volunteered to hand over their electric systems used to illegally catch fish to commune authorities.

The Government held a meeting on Thursday to discuss urgent measures to limit illegal sand mining in the country, which has reached epidemic proportions in response to a boom in construction demand.

The 9th HCM City People’s Council closed its fifth session on Thursday, adopting 14 resolutions ranging from economic growth to free bus tickets for the elderly.

Promoting healthcare services at the grassroots level and bolstering preventive medicine should be the main task for Việt Nam’s healthcare sector over the coming years, said Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked the Việt Nam Southern Food Corporation (Vinafood 2) to review and punish individuals or groups associated with the corporation’s “mistakes” that have caused losses to the state budget. 

Bình Dương is the only province in the country with no poor or near-poor households based on the national multi-dimensional measure of poverty, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Authorities are alarmed at the declining fertility rates in HCM City and southern provinces.

Business complains of excessive red tape on food safety

HCM City authorities are calling for investment in the form of public private partnerships (PPP) to build golf courses, parks, trade centres or property projects on three closed landfill sites.