Three apartment buildings in HCM City will be rebuilt this year as part of the city’s plan to renovate or replace old apartment buildings by 2020, Trần Trọng Tuấn, director of the city’s Department of Construction, has said.
Recreational abuse of synthetic drugs is becoming increasingly popular among Vietnamese youth who want to get “high”. However, most youngsters are not aware of the long-term risks that the drugs might pose to the young mind, ending with consequences even more serious than traditional drugs.
Fifteen leading Australian universities and executive training providers next month will participate in the Việt Nam – Australia Executive Education and Training Showcase to be held in Việt Nam for the first time.
It was around 8pm and the lights inside the classrooms of the University of Architecture were still on.
The 70-year-old mother Nguyễn Thị Minh Lê has the thought of “must worry and take care of two addicted children until she dies” when her battle to treat for two drug addicts seemed hopeless.
Hùng Vương Obstetrics Hospital in HCM City on Wednesday got a digital mammography machine, the first public hospital in the city to use one, a top city health official said.
The 6th Việt Nam-US Pediatrics Conference officially opened at Bạch Mai General Hospital, in Hà Nội, yesterday, bringing together leading domestic and foreign pediatric experts.
The proportion of people with HIV/AIDS in HCM City who have health insurance surged to 70 per cent last February from 20 per cent in April last year, according to the city HIV/AIDS Prevention Centre.
Đà Nẵng University, in co-operation with University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF) (Francophone University Association), have inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in the fields of scientific research, education and student exchange, technology transfer, communications, business management, water management, and embedded software systems.
Asian and European educators meeting in Viet Nam this week agreed that innovative education is the key to ensuring qualified human resources for the sake of countries’ sustainable development.
Due to a critical shortage of domestic supply, 80 per cent of all ingredients used in the production of Western and traditional drug production in the country are imported, said pharmacist Tạ Ngọc Dũng, Secretary General of the Việt Nam Medical Material Association.
Việt Nam Farmers’ Association on Thursday organised the “Head for the open sea” festival in coastal Hải Phòng City, calling people for joining hands in protecting marine environment and sovereignty over sea and islands.
The HCM City People’s Committee has called on departments and agencies to work together to penalise owners of construction projects that violate regulations on construction.
Market watch forces of the northern province of Hải Dương on Wednesday seized a truck illegally transporting some 2,500 ducks for breeding purposes from China.
Four children drowned on Wednesday while swimming in a river in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai.
A cold spell is forecast to hit the northern region from Friday early morning with the lowest temperature dropping to 10 degree Celsius in the high mountainous areas, according to the National Hydrometeorological Forecast Centre.
Vietnamese customs officials at the Hà Nội-based Nội Bài International Airport have seized 155 iPhones allegedly smuggled from abroad into the country.
Việt Nam is willing to co-ordinate with Japan in ensuring information security, Minister of Information and Communications Trương Minh Tuấn told Japanese Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Sanae Takaichi.
Representatives of the Việt Nam Embassy in Malaysia made a consular visit to Đoàn Thị Hương, a suspect in the death of Democratic People’s Republic of Korean citizen Kim Chol, at the Kajang prison yesterday.
Building too many toll collection stations on BOT (Build-Operation-Transfer) highways caused local people and commuters angry, reported online newspaper Vietnamplus.vn.
