Việt Nam has made significant progress in saving children’s lives, getting children into school and lifting people out of poverty, but this progress has been neither even nor fair, said the latest United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) annual flagship report launched yesterday in Hà Nội.
Việt Nam’s national action plan for prevention and control of hospital infections between 2016 and 2020 will focus on improving effectiveness at health facilities to ensure patient and staff safety.
The second phase of a bridge building programme, which aims at building nearly 4,000 bridges in remote areas, will be kicked off next month, said Nguyễn Văn Huyện, director of the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam (DRVN).
Using information technology in agriculture is imperative for improving productivity and quality and reducing costs to bolster the sector’s competitiveness amid the country’s integration, a seminar heard in HCM City on Tuesday.
Management activities on inland waterway transport should be further enhanced to ensure traffic safety. This was main point in a recent instruction issued by the Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc on strengthening measures for safe traffic and security on waterways.
The HCM City administration has received more than 13,000 complaints and suggestions since it set up a hotline three months ago.
A metal base transceiver station (BTS) atop a 10-storey building in Hà Nội’s Đống Đa District collapsed at noon today, killing one man.
Grasshoppers have consumed the leaves of some 800ha of crops and over 8,000ha of forest in the northern mountainous Sơn La Province’s Sốp Cộp District since mid-May.
Việt Nam's population density of 274 persons per square kilometre is 5.2 times higher than the world average , the Ministry of Health’s General Office of Population and Family Planning said.
A huge fire erupted in the Minh Hưng-Korea II industrial zone in Bình Phước Province this morning, destroying workshops of a company with an area of thousands of square metres.
Two people died due to the heavy rainfall which drenched much of the northern province of Quảng Ninh yesterday and this morning.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has proposed the Ministry of Transport apply criminal charges for the act of projecting laser beams on planes during landing or take off.
The US Government has provided US$500,000 in additional emergency assistance to people in Mekong Delta provinces as they experienced the worst drought and saltwater intrusion in Việt Nam in the last decade.
Two recent work-related accidents in which six people were killed were caused by weak management at both central and local levels, said labour experts.
Authorities in Thừa Thiên - Huế Province have announced that the estimated damage of the locality from the mass fish deaths was VNĐ135 billion or US$6 million, following a meeting report released on Monday.
The Việt Nam Association of Bridge and Road Science and Technology has asked agencies to inspect the construction of a railway overpass under the north-south axis project in Hà Nội.
President Trần Đại Quang yesterday cabled a message of condolences to his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Masum over a terror bombing in the Iraqi capital of Bagdad that claimed the lives of at least 165 people and wounded over 131 others.
Vocational training schools are revamping their curricula and offering new training majors in an attempt to stem the decline in the number of students applying to the schools.
HCM City authorities plan to include the location of public toilets on e-maps and improve toilet services in HCM City.
The People’s Committee of Đồng Nai Province has approved a VNĐ458 billion (US$20.8 million) project to prevent flooding at the Biên Hùng five-way crossroads in Biên Hoà City.
