Việt Nam News

Despite great efforts, the rate of sex imbalance at birth in Hà Nội remains high, reaching alarming level in several suburban districts, according to the municipal Department of Population and Family Planning.

Coastal central Quảng Trị Province is paying attention to labour export to address challenges faced by locals who suffered from the consequences of last year’s environmental incident.

The number of crimes dropped by nearly four per cent in the first six months of the year in comparison with the same period last year, reported the Ministry of Public Security at a press briefing in Hà Nội yesterday.

A salary “bubble” is forming in the IT sector, posing challenges to employers, a workshop heard in HCM City yesterday.

The National Salary Council on Tuesday kicked off the first debate on regional minimum wage for 2018. Various options for the wage were recommended, including keeping it unchanged, increasing it by five per cent, six per cent, 6.8 per cent or up to 13.3 per cent compared with the current wage.

Farmers in central Hà Tĩnh Province are experiencing a hard time due to the poor harvest of peanuts and the low price of goober peas.

Police in the central highland province of Lâm Đồng have joined hands with the region’s Forest Protection Division to investigate large-scale deforestation in Đạ Tẻh District early this month.

Landslides hit two districts of the southernmost province of Cà Mau on Tuesday, damaging four households and incurring losses of some VNĐ700 million (US$30,800).

The Ministry of Public Security’s Immigration Management Department will launch online invitation and guarantee procedures for Việt Nam-based agencies, organisations and enterprises applying for Vietnamese visa for foreigners. The online procedure was piloted in HCM City on June 15.

The investigative police of the capital city’s Hai Bà Trưng District on Tuesday took into custody two suspects in connection with the assault of a foreigner and began prosecution of the case.

 The capital city will reopen some 130 spans of centenary arch bridges that have been sealed with concrete for more than a decade.

HCM City has set up a special task force to look into the expansion the Tân Sơn Nhất Airport and submit to the Government early September, a city leader has said.

People who have children especially at the age of between 5 and 15 and in the Mekong Delta should take preventive measures against Japanese encephalitis, which breaks out between June and October every year, a doctor at the HCM City Paediatrics Hospital said.

The Charity Meal Project yesterday was launched in HCM City to provide free pork, rice and other food items to shelters, centres and nursing homes that take care of people with disabilities and the elderly throughout the country.

Doctor Nguyễn Chiến Quyết completed his first surgery as lead surgeon last Wednesday, performing a hernia operation on a four-year-old Mông ethnic boy, at Bắc Hà District General Hospital in the northern mountainous province of Lào Cai.

The number of dengue infections has risen significantly in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta, particularly in Cần Thơ City and the provinces of Đồng Tháp, Bến Tre, Cà Mau and Tiền Giang, according to the Ministry of Health.

Endovascular intervention, which is a minimally invasive procedure performed in many countries in the world, is also becoming a more commom treatment in Việt Nam, according to experts.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked the Department of Transport to seek measures to tackle traffic congestion at 37 traffic-congestion hotpots across the city, including those at seaports.