Việt Nam News

As many as 78 young doctors have been recruited for a pilot project on sending doctors to disadvantaged areas, including mountainous, border areas and islands, from June.

A huge blaze that broke out late on Thursday night destroyed some 5,000sq.m. of a warehouse near Sài Gòn Port in HCM City’s District 4.

Thousands of gout patients with serious complications have been examined at the Polyclinics of the Gout Institute over the past 10 years, pointing to an alarming situation, according to doctors at the French-Vietnamese Gout Research Center.

The latest trends in language teaching and learning in the digital age will be the main topic of discussion at the Việt Nam-USA Society English Centers’ annual Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) conference held on July 21 at the White Palace Convention Center in HCM City’s Phú Nhuận District.

Cars will be banned from selected roads in downtown HCM City to ensure relocation of Nhà Bè – Tao Đàn underground cable systems that cross Bến Nghé Canal.

The HCM City administration has agreed on the World Bank (WB)’s request for terminating a project on water drainage and pollution reduction of Thẩm Lương–Bến Cát–Rạch Nước Lên canal.

Children of Quảng Phú Commune in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế can enjoy a library facility at the home of a local elderly farmer, who loves reading and poetry.

In HCM City, the number of people brought into the social, health, and unemployment insurance net increased by 10.3 per cent year-on-year to 142,943 in the first five months this year, according to the Việt Nam Social Insurance Agency.

Thousands of households in northern mountainous province of Hà Giang have been assigned forests along with commitment to protect them. Every month, they receive payments for forest environmental services, which help them to improve livelihoods, the Nông Thôn Ngày Nay (Countryside Today) newspaper reported.

A taxi driver from the central province of Nghệ An Province’s has turned his house into a first-aid station so that he can offer timely help to traffic accident victims.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has exhorted the Vietnamese-German University to become a leading research hub not only at the national level but also the regional and international levels.

An inspection carried out by an independent team on the quality of steel fishing ships built under a Government decree revealed that ship-building companies used substandard components for a number of ships, resulting in frequent breakdowns and degradation.

Eldniz Nasabli was transferred from the Sơn La General Hospital to NIHBT on the morning of June 7 after a week of suffering from high fever and uncontrollable bleeding gums. 

The People's Court of southern Cần Thơ City on Thursday opened the second day of trial to hear the case of seven traffic inspectors accused of bribery.

Vietnamese students and international students from nine countries are exchanging innovative ideas and culture in the 2^nd International Student Science Forum that opened yesterday (June 22) in HCM City.

 Fire-fighters in Hà Nội’s Sóc Sơn District are investigating the cause of the huge fire in Nội Bài Industrial Zone, which was put out at 3am on Thursday.

The central province will build the first International General Hospital in the central city of Quảng Ngãi with total investment of VNĐ1.1 trillion (US$48.7 million) following a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model.

The Ministry of Public Security’s Investigative Agency decided to prosecute five former executives of the textile factory of the state-run giant, PetroVietnam, and a subsidiary, for causing considerable economic losses.