Việt Nam News

The latest advances in the field of aesthetic surgery and medicine are being discussed at the 14^th annual international scientific congress of the HCM City Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, which closed on Friday.

A pilot programme in HCM City that uses technology to control and trace the origin of pork will begin from December 16 instead of December 10 as planned earlier.

The Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality has warned consumers not to buy polymer “crystal balls,” saying it is a toy that could be harmful for children.

A 64-year-old woman from District 12, who suffered from obstruction of the flow of urine, is one of the first ten adult patients benefiting from robotic surgery at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City’s District 3.

Fish bred in cages in a lagoon near the ocean in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province died en masse for still unknown reasons beginning Thursday last week.

The central city of Đà Nẵng and the American Half the Sky Foundation have started construction of a care centre and kindergarten for needy children to be completed by 2019.

The country’s medical facilities are using the latest procedures to treat cardio-vascular diseases, according to the Việt Nam Heart Institute in Hà Nội.

The HCM Public Passenger Transport and Management Centre has said 1,048 more trips will be operated on 17 city bus routes between December 31 and January 2 to cope with the New Year rush.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on Thursday in HCM City met with representatives from the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism to discuss the decline in the volume of sediment in Việt Nam’s rivers

The central coast city’s plan to get rid of 1,100 small vessels (under 20CV) engaged in small-scale and near-shore fishing has sparked anxiety among fishermen whose sole means of livelihood is threatened.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked permission from Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc to hire an investor for the elevated road No. 1 project.

More than 150 local and foreign scholars and researchers met at an international workshop in HCM City on Wednesday (Dec 7) to discuss enforcement of intellectual property laws in relation to new trade agreements.

Residential apartments in major cities like Hà Nội are used as offices despite the ban that took effective since middle last year.

The environment in the country is “good” for the modernisation of technical and professional training, a project director of the Vietnamese Skills for Employment Programme (VSEP) has said.

Traffic police nation-wide will begin a two-month-long campaign to ensure traffic safety and social order for the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

A range of activities showcasing nearly four decades of development co-operation between Finland and Việt Nam will take place across the country as part of the “Finland 100 years” celebrations.

Free examinations and treatments were provided to 25 poor patients with tumours and hematomas on Thursday at HCM City University Medical Centre.