Heavy fines for littering public places, vocational training support for young people and change of dialing codes are among important regulations that will be effective from this month.

According to estimates of the Hà Nội Health Department, the city has nearly 3,000 private health clinics, receiving some one million patients per year. While many private clinics offer good services and help reduce the pressure on public hospitals, there were some private clinics that violate regulations. The newspaper Sức Khỏe Đời Sống (Health and Life)  talks to Trần Nhị Hà, deputy director of the Hà Nội Health Department, on the matter.

The capital and the northern provinces will experience a chill and light rain on Wednesday, after sunny weather for the first three days of the Lunar New Year.

The Mông ethnicity’s cultural perception of marriage was driving their young girls out of school and instead into early marriage in the central province of Nghệ An.

A range of majors of Huế College of Arts under Huế University have been facing to be suspended from operation due to lack of students.

The death toll from traffic accidents amounted to 118 during the first three days of the Lunar New Year (January 28-30). 

Twenty-nine mountainous districts bordering Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) have reportedly achieved progress in social and economic development throughout 2016.

The southern province of Đồng Nai will build 20,000 houses from now until 2030 to meet the accommodation needs of workers, students and people with low incomes.

Traffic death toll amounted to 48 on the first two days of the Lunar New Year (Saturday and Sunday). 

Quảng Ninh Province will allow Vân Đồn Island District to resume its exploitation of sand mixed with pieces of coral and oysters, to serve the needs of local aquaculture farmers.

People can fill in and submit forms for more than 700 administrative procedures in Hà Nội online this year, as the municipal People’s Committee has focused on promoting online public services.

The agriculture and rural development ministry has approved a plan to provide vocational training to 1.4 million rural labourers over the next four years.

The Northern Việt Nam Power Projects Management Board (NPMB) said it would start work of 15 power projects in 2017 to ensure stable power supply and prevent overloaded power transmission to Hà Nội and industrial zones in the region.

People nation-wide enjoyed spectacular art and music performances to celebrate the most sacred moment of the Year of the Rooster 2017.

As a tradition, national and local leaders would visit people on duty during Tết and wish them a happy new year.

Tết is the time for a family union and good health, but not so for Cường and many others like him who are confined to hospital beds because of various ailments.

Extreme weather conditions resulting in a complex tide phenomenon, landslides and sea erosion are threatening coastal areas in central Bình Thuận Province, authority officials and local people have said.

Police in the northern province of Nam Định announced on Wednesday they have arrested two suspected drug dealers and seized 45kg of synthetic drugs and 30 heroin packs.