Việt Nam News

 Doctors from the Việt Nam-Germany Hospital have successfully conducted an eight-hour heart surgery on a female patient with the HIV virus.

Only a few computers” in Việt Nam remain infected with WannaCry, Nguyễn Khắc Lịch, Deputy Director of the Việt Nam Computer Emergency Response Team (VNCERT), under the Ministry of Information and Communications (MoIC), told a conference on information security today.

 With just 24 hours to go, 22 software developers from APEC economies are racing to build new online tools to help small businesses grow. As participants in the 2017 APEC App Challenge, these coders are competing to build mobile or web applications that can help SMEs export their products overseas.

 One year after the devastating marine environmental incident caused by the toxic spill, fishing and aquaculture activities have for the most part returned to normal, stated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) yesterday.

A ceremony to present the Tạ Quang Bửu awards was held on Thursday in Hà Nội as part of activities marking Việt Nam Science and Technology Day.

Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng has ordered the Ministry of Transport and concerned agencies to raise domestic capital without delay for the construction of the North-South Expressway.

The southern coastal province of Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu signed an action plan for co-operation with Indonesia’s Padang city on Wednesday.

A smart city is an ideal place for people to live and work, but it is also a sustainable combination of robust economics, civil society and clean environment, Nguyễn Minh Hồng, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications (MoIC) said at a symposium on developing smart cities in Việt Nam held in the capital on Thursday. 

Retail companies with responsible forest products sourcing policies are seeing numerous tangible business benefits, demonstrating that sustainability makes business sense, according to a new report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). 

Fishermen from the central provinces, which saw the Formosa spill, have been warned not to catch species living in the deepest levels of the ocean for 20 nautical miles offshore.

The HCM City Market Management on Tuesday discovered 70 tonnes of smuggled sugar in Bình Tân District.

The Central Rural Power Project Management Board--in co-operation with the HCM City-based SolarBK company--will start construction of a solar power system on An Bình islet of Lý Sơn Island next month.

QUẢNG NAM – Several residents of Điện Nam Trung in Quảng Nam Province on Wednesday blocked Provincial Road 607 to protest the constant movement of heavy, noisy construction trucks.

Việt Nam Social Insurance (VSI) has agreed to share with the Ministry of Health (MoH) personal infomation database of more than 24 million households.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has proposed that the Government choose a Japanese company as a consultant contractor to implement the planning of underground parking stations in the city.

Initial statistics from the 30 districts and townships of the capital city show that Hanoians are taller by two to three cm compared to 10 years ago.

 Some 15 per cent of students from primary and high schools in HCM City suffer from hypertension due to obesity, being overweight and physically inactive.

The People’s Court of Thủ Dầu Một City on Wednesday sentenced Ngô Tiến Thảo, 30, to five years imprisonment for violating regulations on safely operating electricity works.