Việt Nam News

Around 15 per cent of Việt Nam’s population – approximately 13.5 million ­people – suffer from 10 of the more common mental disorders, reveal statistics released yesterday.

As many as 449 people attending a ceremony last Sunday (Nov 28) signed a pledge to donate their organs after death to the National Coordination Centre for Organ Transplantation.

The Hà Nội Department of Information and Communications has set up inter-sector inspection teams to supervise the management of pre-paid SIM cards in the city from November 29 to December 31, department chief inspector Nguyễn Văn Minh said.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a plan of building coastal roads stretching through six coastal provinces from the north to the central region.

Customs officials in northern Quảng Ninh Province, in cooperation with provincial border soldiers, arrested two persons allegedly transporting more than 3kg of products made from endangered wild animals.

The lacklustre agricultural mechanisation was attributed to the unsatisfactorily slow progress in land aggregation, leading to the persistence of small-scale and scattered production, said Ngô Đại Ngọc, deputy director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Doctors of northern Phú Thọ Province's General Hospital successfully conducted a living-unrelated kidney transplant, said Hoàng Công Lâm, the hospital deputy director.

 Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a plan to draw over VNĐ115 billion (US$5 million) from the State budget to assist 10 localities in dealing with the aftermath of storm Dianmu and the floods this year.

With creativity, enthusiasm and a startup spirit, a group of southern youth has succeeded in their businesses.

Many suspension bridges in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng were built of wood. Their vertical piers are dilapidated while many parts of their decks are decayed, covered with rotten wood pieces, making them dangerous to cross. 

The HCM City Department of Transport last Friday (Nov 25) signed a contract with a consortium of investors to build the Ring Road No.2 section stretching from Phạm Văn Đồng Street to Gò Dưa intersection on National Highway 1A in HCM City.

Việt Nam will face a huge budget deficit in health services for people with HIV/AIDS in the next five years, an official from the HIV/AIDS Prevention Agency, Dương Thúy Anh, said yesterday at a conference on insurance payments for ARV therapy.

The Vietnamese student team has won 32 medals - 20 gold medals, 11 silver ones and one bronze - in the seventh World Mathematics Team Championship (WMTC) held in Seoul, South Korea.

The Ministry of Public Security’s Police Investigation Department of Social Security Crime has busted an online gambling ring in HCM City and arrested more than 130 people suspected of involvement.

Police in central Thừa Thiên Huế Province yesterday seized 1.3 tonnes of animal organs without clear origin being transported from central Đà Nẵng City to Quảng Trị Province for consumption.

Though animal diseases have been under control so far, Việt Nam faces a high risk of epidemic outbreaks because of unfavourable weather conditions, an agriculture ministry official has said.

Social and health insurance for labourers worth VNĐ100 billion (US$ 4.4 million) hasn't been paid by 600 businesses operating in northern Bắc Giang Province – accounting for 30 per cent of all businesses participating in the social and health insurance scheme.

The fifth jackpot winner of the American-style lottery, with the prize worth over VNĐ54.8 billion (US$2.4 million), was announced last night by the Việt Nam Lottery Company (Vietlott).