The increasing number of suicides in Điện Biên over the last few years was raising alarms among the community in the remote mountainous province.
School violence has recently increased not only in quantity, but also in severity, said educational experts.
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân yesterday visited and presented gifts to flood victims in Hương Khê and Vũ Quang districts – the most vulnerable to flooding in the central province of Hà Tĩnh.
Minister of Information and Communications Trương Minh Tuấn today decided to temporarily suspend the editor-in-chief and the deputy editor-in-chief of online newspaper infonet.vn.
Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs has made a proposal to the prime minister on next year’s public holidays scheme.It has suggested two options for Tết ( Lunar New Year) holidays -- seven days off or 10 days off.
The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam has proposed to spend VNĐ35 billion (US$1.6 million) to upgrade the Quảng Bình stretch of the Hồ Chí Minh Highway.
Storm Sarika weakened into a low tropical pressure this morning over the sea some 60km away from the Quảng Ninh coast.
A construction crane collapsed on the roof of a house on the capital’s Thụy Khuê Street last night. No casualties were reported.
Workers started moving mahogany trees on Hà Nội’s Kim Mã Street last night to make way for a metro line of the Nhổn-Hà Nội Railway Station.
The helicopter that went missing yesterday in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu was found this morning with the bodies of all three military officers on board.
Heavy rainfall and floods over the last few days have damaged several national and provincial routes in the northern province of Bắc Kạn. Reconstruction work is progressing slowly.
Four cases of Japanese encephalitis have recently been reported in the Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) province of Kon Tum, local health officials said yesterday.
Patients with chronic kidney failure are putting their lives at risks using herbal medicines of unclear origin, a nephrologist said.
Doctors at HCM City’s Medical University have successfully performed surgery to remove a giant kidney stone from a 59-year-old woman.
More than 400 talented students from HCM City and neighbouring provinces have taken part in the YouthSpeak forum which encourages them to take action and initiate positive societal change.
The expansion of artificial forests and roads around Ea Sô Natural Reserve in the Central Highland province of Đắk Lắk has been blamed for the increased encroachment by timber loggers.
Many illegal billboards are still standing in the outskirts of the capital city despite the administration ordering their removal a month ago.
The Ministry of Health has requested hospitals to tighten their regulations on the transfer of patients for treatment at clinics outside the hospital and have proper punishments for violations.