Việt Nam News

The Ministry of Health has directed hospitals and healthcare centres in cities and provinces to strengthen monitoring and test samples for the suspected Zika virus.

The police in the northern mountain province of Điện Biên arrested a man for illegally trading six cakes of heroin in Núa Ngam Commune of Điện Biên District yesterday.

Cát Bi International Airport in the northern port city of Hải Phòng will officially welcome international flights starting from May 11, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam. 

Seventy-seven domestic enterprises yesterday were granted the National Quality Award 2015, the country’s only prize to recognise outstanding enterprises regarding their product quality and performances.

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has introduced several new vaccines in the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation in an effort to improve the efficiency of disease prevention, the Preventive Health Department reported Friday, May 6, 2016.

The ultraviolet (UV) radiation index in the southern region, including HCM City, will continue to be at the high-risk level of 10-12 on a scale of 1 to 13 until the end of this week, according to a meteorological expert.

More than 17 tonnes of fish raised in cages in the northern Thanh Hóa Province’s Thạch Thành District have died of contaminated water, the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) reported yesterday.

A 115-km stretch of the National Highway No 6 running through the provinces of Sơn La and Hòa Bình was re-opened to public on Saturday by the Ministry of Transport after a year of road works.

Bread street vendors earn their living on Hà Nội’s Hàng Giấy Street. — VNS Photo Việt Thanh

 HCM City officials have suggested setting up standard kitchens at both private and public schools with 1,000 students and more to ensure safe, hygienic meals.

The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed relevant agencies to clear congestion on roads leading to Cát Lái Port in District 2, especially Nguyễn Thị Định Street and the Mỹ Thủy intersection.

HCM City and the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Hậu Giang will continue to enhance co-operation in the 2016-20 period, leaders said at a meeting held on Wednesday in the city.

The Republic of Korea’s Woojin Construction Co., Ltd, will pour more than VNĐ4.9 trillion (US$247.6 million) into construction for the second phase of the RoK-Trà Vinh wind power plant in Trường Long Hòa Commune, Duyên Hải town, in the Mekong Delta province of Trà Vinh.

Several construction works in the southern province of Đồng Nai’s Biên Hòa City were damaged in the heavy rains on Thursday.

Chợ Rẫy Hospital has successfully conducted skin graft surgery on a patient with serious cellulitis in the groin region.

Nearly 600 officials and volunteers of Việt Nam Red Cross Society yesterday participated in the celebration of World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day in HCM City.

The National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecastings reported yesterday hot weather would occur in the north in the oncoming three to five days. Temperatures could be up to 40 degrees Celsius.

Cardiac surgeons at the HCM City University Medical Centre have successfully performed 100 minimally invasive heart operations.