Two people died and thousands of houses were inundated with water as floodwater continue to rise in the central provinces of Quảng Bình and Hà Tĩnh from yesterday. Flood also occurred in late afternoon in Quảng Trị.
At least 13 people were killed after a fire broke out at a karaoke venue yesterday afternoon and tore through four neighbouring buildings in Hà Nội’s Dịch Vọng Hậu District.
The life of a five-year-old child whose chest was punctured by a steel bar after a fall from the third floor of a building was saved by doctors last week who took part in HCM City’s Red Alert emergency procedure.
A tree management company has been suspended from planting more trees in Hà Nội after some 80 trees it recently planted died.
National Highway No.513 in northern Thanh Hoa Province is at high risk of damage by overloaded trucks running night and day, the online vov.vn reported.
At least four buildings were burnt down after a fire broke out at 1.30pm this afternoon in Hà Nội’s Trần Thái Tông Street.
A fire broke out last night on the eighth floor of the CT2 Building of the Rainbow Linh Đàm apartment complex.
Businesses could have their contributions to funds for labour accidents, occupational diseases and unemployment reduced by half under a new Government proposal.
Viettel Group has raised donations worth VNĐ12 billion ($540,000) from its staff, each of whom contributed a day’s salary, to assist relief efforts in the storm- and flood-hit central provinces.
Seventeen people have tested positive for the Zika virus in HCM City as of yesterday, according to the city-based Pasteur Institute.
Four people were killed and 13 others injured when a steamer suddenly exploded yesterday morning at a seafood processing base in Thái Thụy District of northern Thái Bình Province.
The HCM City-based Centre for Promotion of Quality of Life (LIFE) is providing 12,000 sets of rapid HIV tests free to high-risk groups, including men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender women, drug users and prostitutes via community-based organisations.
Severe floods are expected as the river water level is rising swiftly in the central Quảng Bình and Hà Tĩnh provinces, which were devastated by historic floods earlier this month.
Consumers in HCM City can check the origin of pork they buy under a city project that will be piloted from December 10 this year.
People in the northern localities are bracing for another cold spell accompanied with scattered rainfall tomorrow, according to the Central Hydro-meteorological Forecast Centre.
A torrential downpour, which began on Sunday afternoon and lasted well into the night, has triggered a landslide on the coastal road in Thuận Nam District, disrupting the traffic flow.
Hundreds of people have been forced to live in slum areas near the seaport in central Bình Định Province’s Quy Nhơn City, regardless of the pollution and fire risks.
The Ministry of Health has asked Bình Định General Hospital to clarify the cause of death of a woman who was admitted for childbirth and did not survive after a C-section.