Việt Nam News

The decline of the railway’s popularity in Việt Nam is not new: back in 2010, the European Union labeled rail transport as the country’s “least relevant” mode of transport.

A reconstruction plan for old apartment buildings in Hà Nội should be completed by the end of this month, according to the city’s People’s Committee.

Hải Phòng Police and Customs unearthed a drug trade ring, seizing more than 10kg of white substance and tools allegedly used to make the drug ecstasy, police announced yesterday.

Dr Nguyễn Viết Nhung, director of the Central Pulmonology Hospital, is one of the 19 members of the first task force on global tuberculosis research founded by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The public security ministry’s police investigation agency has decided to prosecute two former top officials of the HCM City-based Đông Á Bank (DongA Bank), it announced today.

The construction of Provincial Road 537 was completed just recently, but the section passing through Yên Thành District’s Hợp Thành Commune has already developed huge cracks and started caving in.

Five new inner-city bus routes with subsidised fares were launched on Saturday in Đà Nẵng.

Rescue forces have been seeking four fishermen missing from a fishing boat that sank off the coast of Quảng Ngãi Province during the incessant rainfall of the past week.

Thousands of people participated in the Hà Nội Run for Children 2016 in Thống Nhât Park yesterday to raise funds for the treatment of disadvantaged children with cancer and congenital heart diseases. 

The latest advances in the field of aesthetic surgery and medicine are being discussed at the 14^th annual international scientific congress of the HCM City Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, which closed on Friday.

The Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality has warned consumers not to buy polymer “crystal balls,” saying it is a toy that could be harmful for children.

A pilot programme in HCM City that uses technology to control and trace the origin of pork will begin from December 16 instead of December 10 as planned earlier.

A 64-year-old woman from District 12, who suffered from obstruction of the flow of urine, is one of the first ten adult patients benefiting from robotic surgery at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City’s District 3.

Fish bred in cages in a lagoon near the ocean in Thừa Thiên-Huế Province died en masse for still unknown reasons beginning Thursday last week.

The central city of Đà Nẵng and the American Half the Sky Foundation have started construction of a care centre and kindergarten for needy children to be completed by 2019.

The country’s medical facilities are using the latest procedures to treat cardio-vascular diseases, according to the Việt Nam Heart Institute in Hà Nội.

The HCM Public Passenger Transport and Management Centre has said 1,048 more trips will be operated on 17 city bus routes between December 31 and January 2 to cope with the New Year rush.