Việt Nam News

HCM City aims to increase the proportion of secondary school graduates enrolled at vocational training schools to 30 per cent by 2020, but the schools are struggling to maintain enrollments.

Some 16,610 coaches, taxis and buses do not operate their global positioning systems (GPS) equipment regularly, according to the Hà Nội Department of Transport.

Police in Hà Nội’s Phúc Thọ District yesterday took over an investigation involving sand dredgers on the Hồng (Red) River that are suspected to be operating illegally.

The annual Việt Nam Glory programme honouring national spirit and patriotism presented awards to 30 organisations and individuals at a ceremony in Hà Nội on Saturday.

The first train and the La Khê Station of Hà Nội’s Hà Đông–Cát Linh Urban Railway are open for public viewing from May 20 to June 20.

Developing ward-level health centres is one of leading priorities of the HCM City Department of Health in order to help local residents get better primary healthcare services.

Doctors from HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases advised people to vaccinate against tetanus as the hospital admitted 134 patients with the disease in the first four months of this year, accounting for nearly 50 per cent of last year’s total.

Drowning is still one of the leading causes of mortality among children in Việt Nam, despite efforts to deal with the problem. Concern is re-surfacing ahead of the coming summer months.

HCM City’s People’s Committee has ordered departments and district-level people’s committees to use electronic signatures when issuing electronic documents starting from June 1.

High-quality human resources are required to promote the publishing sector in Việt Nam, a conference on improving publishing heard in HCM City on Friday.

HCM City authorities are considering requiring high-rises of 20 floors or more to have helipads for search-and-rescue missions during natural disasters or fires.

With a pool of highly-skilled practitioners, state-of-the-art facilities and affordable costs, HCM City is rapidly emerging as a dental care tourism destination.

Nearly 100 firemen and 15 trucks were called to stamp out a fire at an electronics shop in Ngũ Hành Sơn District early yesterday.

Phạm Thị Hải Triều, 23, from the south central coastal province of Ninh Thuận, had searched for information about human papillomavirus (HPV) on many websites to learn about the virus and why girls and women aged 9-26 get HPV vaccine.

Hà Nội’s top politician has promised to solve all issues in the daily lives of all workers in the city soon, including shortages of housing, cultural activities, kindergartens and medical centres at industrial zones.

 This year’s Búa Liềm Vàng (Golden Hammer & Sickle) Press Awards will be open to all Vietnamese citizens at home and abroad, instead of only journalists like in last year’s competition.

The Vietnamese Government should intervene to reduce the rate of caesarean section deliveries, which has seen an upward trend globally, including in this country, an International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) official has said.

Three recent gas asphyxiation deaths in Hải Dương Province has raised alarms about the risks of building substandard biogas systems in rural areas, authority officials and experts said.