Việt Nam News

 The HCM City People’s Committee has approved a plan to modernise fire-fighting facilities and equipment by 2025.

The central city plans to open a 31.8km Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route connecting the Đà Nẵng International Airport and favourite destinations with Hội An City in neighbouring Quảng Nam Province.

The HCM City Department of Transport has called on the administration to build smart parking lots at hospitals to meet the burgeoning demand for parking space at most of them.

A rural sanitation and clean water programme for the Central Highlands and central southern provinces was launched yesterday in the Central Highlands Lâm Đồng Province’s Đà Lạt City.

Cheap gas cylinders are a danger users as the gas in them is usually extracted or traded illegally.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday ordered the administrations of northern localities and the northern central province of Thanh Hóa, and relevant agencies to promptly brace for Typhoon Mirinae that hit the mainland later that day.

Nearly 80 households set up tents to prevent the operations of Giang Sơn Manufacture, Trade and Services Joint-Stock Company's asphalt mixing station on Monday night.

Dengue fever is spreading rapidly in Việt Nam with 14 fatalities over the past seven months, the Ministry of Health said.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced its new, five-year, US$26-million project to strengthen and sustain Việt Nam’s HIV and AIDS response.

All cruise ships in the northern Quảng Ninh Province have been banned from sending tourists offshore to visit Hạ Long Bay from 6am today.

The traffic sector would prioritise projects of overriding importance to further the province’s socio-economic development, a local official said.

Infrastructure around the Cái Mép – Thị Vải port cluster, the only port cluster that can receive large container vessels in Việt Nam, is expected to be upgraded so that it can become a major national and international port.

The Hồ Chí Minh City People’s Committee has submitted for Government approval a list of priority transportation and sanitation investment projects that will be developed in a Public Private Partnership (PPP) format between 2016 and 2020.

A solemn memorial service and burial ceremony for 351 sets of remains of revolutionary Vietnamese martyrs was organised yesterday at 82 Hill Martyrs Cemetery in the southeast province of Tây Ninh, which borders Việt Nam and Cambodia.

Indonesia yesterday repatriated 65 Vietnamese fishermen who were arrested in April and May for accidently fishing in Indonesia’s seas.

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam under the Transport Ministry is developing preferential mechanisms and incentives to better attract investors to roadside rest stop projects.

Doctors at the HCM City University Medical Centre are set to perform laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery using indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence for the first time in Việt Nam.

The first TV game show for healthcare employees and physicians, called Đặc Nhiệm Blouse Trắng (White Blouse Special Mission), will air on HCM City Television in September