First businessman be honoured for scientific and technological study

It was covered by darkness and stink in the sewer, not mentioning the toxic factor. I and other drainage workers still had to manage to take turn to dip in the sewage to dredge its bed, Hoàng Đức Thảo, Director of the Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Urban Sewerage and Development Ltd. Company (BUSADCO), recalled.

Phú Yên warns drivers of traffic black spots

Authorities of central Phú Yên Province have warned drivers of nine “black spots” where road accidents could occur along some national highways passing through the province, following recent inspection.

Cancer to kill young more

Nearly 150,000 people are diagnosed with cancer annually in Việt Nam, and experts predict the disease will affect more and more young people. 

Việt Nam to prepare for aging population

Việt Nam will work with international organisations to develop a population policy agenda at the highest level as the country looks towards becoming an aged nation, said Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam yesterday.

Project helps enhance meal quality for children under 2

Mothers with children under 2 years old in rural areas in the northern mountainous provinces of Thái Nguyên and Bắc Giang have benefited from a nutrition communications project launched by the National Institute of Nutrition under the Ministry of Health from April 2014 to March 2017.

City authorities to fight erosion

The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed districts and relevant departments to urgently draft plans to relocate people living in erosion-prone areas.

Doctors quit public for private

Many health workers are reportedly quitting their jobs at public hospitals and seeking opportunities in private clinics, citing low salaries, a pressure-filled environment and a shortage of favourable policies as reasons to quit.

Six killed in tragic road accidents

Two people were killed and nine others were injured in a tragic bus accident which occurred earlier today on the Pháp Vân-Cầu Giẽ highway.

School year begins, Hà Tĩnh students stay home

Nearly 1,000 students of kindergarten, primary and secondary school have not yet begun attending classes in coastal central Hà Tĩnh Province, although schools officially reopened yesterday nation-wide.

 

HIV prevention project launched

A new project was launched yesterday to control HIV among young drug users in Việt Nam with funding from Expertise France, a French agency for international technical expertise.

New poverty reduction plan approved

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction for 2016-2020, which aims to cut the national poverty rate by 1-1.5 per cent each year based on multi-dimensional poverty criteria.

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