Việt Nam News

With a growing number of medical tourists who combine travel with medical care coming to HCM City in recent years, lucrative medical tourism needs concerted efforts by various official agencies and travel firms to realise its huge potential, experts have said.

Language barrier is the biggest obstacle in investigation of crimes involving foreign suspects, said officials of the HCM City People’s Procuracy.

A pilot programme of the Ministry of Health (MoH) to combine tuberculosis and HIV treatments for TB/HIV co-infected patients in medical centres at district and commune levels have yielded positive results, experts said.

More than 500 doctors and health officials participated in a series of recent seminars on updates on national guidelines on cervical cancer screening.

Mobile phone users must submit portrait photos when registering for accounts, an official from the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) said.

Police in Sông Mã District, in the northern mountain province of Sơn La, have arrested two suspects involved in a drug-smuggling racket.

Nearly 3,000 student volunteers last Sunday (18 June) attended the opening ceremony of Tiếp Sức Mùa Thi (Examination Assistance Programme) in HCM City to assist candidates sitting the national high school graduation examinations and seeking college admission.

People who are not residents of HCM City can now apply for civil service jobs.

The central coastal province of Khánh Hoà plans to spend more than VNĐ580 billion (US$25.52 million) on 60 infrastructure projects to prevent flooding, river erosion and saltwater intrusion in 2017-2018.

Heavy downpours are expected in the northern region until June 21, with warnings of flash floods and landslides in mountainous provinces.

Da Nang’s Dong A College has enrolled students for the first ever course on automobile technology and automation engineering in the central region.

With the amount of water stored up to 175 millions of cubic metres on high position, the major dam of Núi Cốc Lake in northern Thái Nguyên Province would cause unpredictable consequences to downstream areas if it broke, experts have said.

A math solving application created by a Vietnamese IT engineer has been downloaded and received positive feedback from thousands of smartphone users recently.

National Assembly deputies said yesterday that the Law on Forest Protection and Development had not clearly identified responsibility for forest protection nor encouraged people to participate seriously in protecting the country’s trees.

Combination models of shrimp breeding and other aquatic products, no use chemical, are bringing sustainable results and potential profit to farmers in the central coastal province of Phú Yên.

Việt Nam has repatriated remains believed to be of US soldiers who died during the Viet Nam War. 

Public transport management in HCM City has greatly improved compared to five or seven years ago, thanks to modern technologies, experts say.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has ordered the Ministry of National Defence to halt all construction work related to auxiliary infrastructure for a golf course in the vicinity of Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport, including a golf school, villas and luxury apartments.