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Trần Đắc Phu, director of the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Heath Department, has warned that the dengue fever would continue to spread this year as an effect of the El Nino phenomenon and the cyclical nature of the disease, re-appearing every five years.

Family Medical Practice (FMP) Vietnam and the Israeli Embassy will jointly organise a free medical check-up and treatment camp for the needy in the Central Highlands’ Kon Tum Province.

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Several large cracks have appeared in the roof and walls of the Hải Vân Tunnel in recent months, causing safety concerns.

HCM City Department of Health will co-operate with Việt Nam Viral Hepatitis Alliance to build a pilot electronic database for surveillance of viral hepatitis in the city.

Several HCM City district-level hospitals now have the capacity to perform surgery on patients with serious brain injuries, helping to ease patient overload at the central-level Chợ Rẫy Hospital.

 Reports about people being kidnapped for their organs in the northern mountainous Hà Giang Province are inaccurate.

The capital city will lift its midnight curfew to let tourists have more fun, Municipal Chairman Nguyễn Đức Chung said at a recent meeting on tourism promotion.

Google Map Maker Việt Nam representative Lê Bách has asked Pokemon Go players to stop creating virtual places in Google maps to catch Pokemon, Youth (Tuổi trẻ) online newspaper reported.

Vietnamese entertainer Hồng Minh Quang, popularly known as Minh Béo, pleaded guilty today at a court in California, United States, to having sex with a minor.

The police have identified the murderer responsible for the brutal killing of four members of a family in the northern Lào Cai Province.

Hà Nội now has 1,600 construction inspectors working from municipal level to ward and commune levels, but construction experts said that a number of violations in the field were still reported.

Activists yesterday called the legal framework on association unfair and biased towards public society organisations (PSOs), while creating barriers to the operations of civil organisations.

All four packages of the World Bank-funded Mekong Delta Transport Infrastructure Development Project, also known as WB5, have been completed.

HCM City has set a target to save 2.5 per cent of energy consumption between now and 2020, according to a report by city authorities.

The quality of school buses has declined in recent years, leading to a dramatic drop in use by students, according to education officials.

Four people belonging to a single family in this northern mountainous province were murdered during a suspected robbery Tuesday evening, the provincial People’s Committee of Bát Xát District has said.

President Trần Đại Quang saidThe 55th Agent Orange (AO) Day in Việt Nam was commemorated in Hà Nội yesterday when President Trần Đại Quang said the settlement of chemical toxin consequences is an urgent and long-term issue, and also the responsibility of the whole political system and people.