A national programme to improve doctors’ awareness of screening and treatment of congenital metabolic disorders among children, begun in 2014, has helped reduce the mortality rate from 50 per cent to around 10 per cent.
The need for multidisciplinary collaborations in the fight against viral hepatitis will be highlighted in a two-day international conference to start on July 30 at 272 Convention Centre in HCM City’s District 3.
The Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control and the National Committee for Search and Rescue held a teleconference yesterday to discuss measures to cope with storm Mirinae – the first to batter Việt Nam this year.
Việt Nam and the United States will work together in conducting humanitarian activities, especially in community-based disaster risk management and climate change adaptation projects.
The 11th Korean language test will be held this October for those wishing to work in South Korea, the Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Ministry's Overseas Labour Management Department said.
The central coastal Khánh Hòa Province’s People’s Committee plans to shut down floating restaurants after one restaurant collapsed, killing two people in Vĩnh Hy Bay in the nearby Ninh Thuận Province earlier this week.
Eight inspection teams from the Ministry of Health (MoH) have checked Zika virus disease and dengue fever prevention and control measures in 16 provinces and cities, the Preventive Medicines Centre said today.
The HCM City People’s Court today sentenced a 56-year-old woman to 15 years in jail for fraud and appropriation of property.
Tokyo Human Health Sciences University Việt Nam has started offering undergraduate courses to Vietnamese students, with a training capacity of up to 1,200 people.
Malnutrition rates, both underweight and stunting, of children under five years old has reduced slightly in Việt Nam in 2015, a report of the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) released today said.
Smart traffic measures will be applied to digital maps for road transport along more than 20,000km of highway stretching across the country.
HCM City’s Party Committee plans to establish a steering committee to provide guidance on developing the southern metropolis into a smart city that would improve the quality of life of its residents.
Five pedestrian overbridges will be built in HCM City’s Districts 3, Gò Vấp, Phú Nhuận, and Bình Thạnh and on Highway 1A this year, according the city’s Urban Traffic Management Zone No.1.
In a small house used for cultural, social and educational activities in Bình Thạnh District’s Ward 26, a group of young people was initially embarrassed when a young doctor explained how to use condoms. They were reluctant to answer questions about safe sex, causes for childlessness, reproductive health care and contraceptive methods.
HCM City’s plan to set up a mechanised slaughterhouse system replacing the existing manual one has been stymied for more than a decade after getting entangled in red tape.
As many as 748 sets of remains of Vietnamese experts and volunteers have been repatriated from Cambodia during the 2015-2016 dry season, as heard at the 15th meeting of the Vietnamese and Cambodian special task committees in HCM City yesterday.
The country needs nearly VNĐ825 billion (US$36.7 million) to ensure waterway traffic safety and upgrade waterway infrastructure by 2018, the latest report of the Vietnam Inland Waterways Administration (VIWA) said.
The charity blood drive “Giọt hồng đất lửa” (Red drops of blood on heroic land), held in the central province of Quảng Trị yesterday, collected nearly 450 units of blood.
Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport’s customs officials said yesterday that they arrested a Vietnamese-Australian passenger for allegedly transporting 14 cakes of heroin from Việt Nam to Australia.
The 27th International Biology Olympiad (IBO) has wrapped up in Hà Nội after a week of numerous activities.
