Việt Nam News

Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City has successfully performed its 500th kidney transplant, including 27 kidneys taken from brain-dead and non-heart-beating donors.

Investigation agencies have arrested five loggers suspected of illegal logging in La Dêê commune in Nam Giang district last month, Colonel Huỳnh Sông Thu, deputy director the provincial Public Security department told a press conference yesterday.

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam has proposed the transport ministry inspect fee collection at the toll station on Pháp Vân-Cầu Giẽ expressway, the southern gateway to Hà Nội, to prevent loss of fees.

Đắk Nông Province’s traffic police yesterday evening seized a truck that was transporting dozens of cubic metres of logs of unclear origin.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved the national scheme to restructure the net work of drug rehabilitation centres by 2020.

Heavy metals have been detected in six out of nine seafood samples taken on August 5 off Hà Tĩnh Province, the National Institute for Food Control’s latest report said.

A large crack has appeared in National Highway 32 C in the northern Yên Bái Province, which was heavily battered by storm Dianmu last week.

An explosion at a coal gasification furnace in the central Nghệ An Province‘s Trung Đô Granite brick factory killed two workers, a factory manager said yesterday.

The central city has chosen the red-shanked douc langur (Pygathryx nemaeus) as the official mascot of Đà Nẵng at the 2017 APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation) Summit.

 A programme initiated by the Việt Nam Youth Union provides not only financial and employment support but also vocational training as well as legal consultation to young inmates and drug addicts.

The life of a badly injured five-year-old child was saved after she received blood donated by doctors at Thạch Thành District General Hospital in the central Thanh Hóa Province yesterday.

Local authorities should facilitate private investment in affordable housing for workers at the Tân Thuận Export Processing Zone in District 7, HCM City Party Committee Secretary Đinh La Thăng has said.

Hà Nội’s People’s Committee has urged the People’s Committee in Sóc Sơn District to review their management of agricultural land after local households have reportedly illegally built houses on farmland.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has signed a decision on the establishment of a steering committee to stabilise lives and production in four central provinces affected by the serious environmental incident.

The environment cannot be allowed to be destroyed for the sake of socio-economic development, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc told an online environment protection conference with 63 localities yesterday.

Illegal gold mining has become rampant in Đắk Glei District’s Đắk Long Commune over recent years, causing serious environmental pollution and damage to local residents’ life, online newspaper zing reported.

One person died and 10 others were injured early this morning when their coach crashed on a bridge in central Quảng Bình province's Sen Thủy Commune, Lệ Thủy District.

Police in southern Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu Province said they have decided to investigate a case in which a 76-year-old man is accused of committing sexual offences against seven children.