Việt Nam News

In an effort to provide clean water to all households, HCM City in recent years has connected nearly all households in the city to water pipelines and meters for free. But more than 100,000 households in the city continue to use well water, mostly out of habit, according to city officials.

Four cities in Việt Nam – Huế, Đà Nẵng, Hội An and Đồng Hà – have agreed to enter World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF)’s One Planet City Challenge programme to show how cities can be a hub for creativity, ambition and innovation in dealing with climate change.

Minister of Information and Communication (MoIC) Trương Minh Tuấn has asked the US ambassador to Việt Nam, Ted Osius, to work with internet giants Google and Facebook to open their offices in Việt Nam “to easily work over issues regarding compliance to Việt Nam’s law.”

A new partnership to benefit 45,000 Vietnamese factory workers has been launched between Marie Stopes International, the Pou Yuen Industrial Holdings Ltd and the Australian Government.

At least seven workers were injured after scaffolding at a construction site suddenly collapsed on Wednesday morning on southern Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province’s February-03 Street.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam on Tuesday night decided to inspect operations at the air traffic control station in Hải Phòng City’s Cát Bi International Airport.

A pregnant woman reportedly died of a pulmonary embolism after her surgery last Friday in the central province of Quảng Trị, according to the provincial health department.

A Lào Cai province inspection team has begun an investigation into the death of dozens of hectares of pineapples during the past week.

Minister of Health Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến yesterday (March 20) urged inspectors from the central to grassroots levels to ensure that fines are handed out for violations of healthcare service regulations.

Hà Nội plans to build 100 safe food chains this year to ensure supplies of safe vegetables and meat for the capital and reach annual targets on food hygiene.

Incomplete data is among the issues hindering the application of information technology in health insurance, according to a report by the Ministry of Health’s Health Insurance Department.

More than 26,000 people receive regular dialysis treatment in the country, which helps prolong their life.  

Israel and Việt Nam signed an agreement yesterday on establishing a series of community centres based on an Israeli-developed model. The agreement was signed in the presence of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin who is on an official visit to Việt Nam.

Representatives from 18 grassroots human security projects signed contracts to receive grants from the Embassy of Japan in Hà Nội on Tuesday.

Customs officers in the northern port city of Hải Phòng yesterday seized a container suspected of containing Khat leaves.

HCM City plans to open special street-food areas in District 1 as part of a pilot programme to move vendors to designated pavements, among other plans to improve the liveability of the city.

Forty Red Cross staffers from Việt Nam, the Philippines, Cambodia, and Laos are participating in a three-day training programme on Participatory Multi-disaster Risks Mapping, which began on Tuesday.

 People from Xuân Thu Commune in the outskirts of Hà Nội’s Sóc Sơn District are complaining that a large quantity of waste is dirtying and polluting their locality, the online newspaper Vietnamplus.vn reported.