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A lottery ticket seller, who creates a unique style to attract customers by decorating his head with lottery tickets, does his job in a street of HCM City. — VNS Photo Việt Thanh

Telemedicine experts, doctors, policy makers and startup entrepreneurs discussed how telemedicine innovations are changing healthcare delivery at a conference in HCM City on Friday.

The rocketing number of Chinese tourists coming to Việt Nam in the first half of the year was putting pressure on the tourism industry, said the authority in charge yesterday, days after several Chinese tour guides were found working illegally in the country.

Leading scientists, including Nobel laureates and key figures in international research institutes, are gathered in central Quy Nhơn City for a two-day workshop to discuss the role of fundamental science and how to boost its development in emerging economies.

The shift from rice to corn growing in the country’s northern mountains has proved successful, officials said at an agricultural conference in Sơn La Province this week.

The completion of the North-South highways is not only a prerequisite for the construction of other highways throughout the country, but is also necessary to realise the target of building at least 2,000km of highways by 2020.

The Bạc Liêu Province People’s Committee has approved a plan to restructure the province’s fisheries sector, aiming to increase the average annual income in the fisheries sector to VNĐ92.3 million (US$4,100) per person by 2020, up 1.4 times against last year.

HCM City will need VNĐ1,000 trillion (US$44 billion) to upgrade its transport infrastructure in the next 15 years, according to its People’s Committee.

The healthcare management department under the health ministry has asked directors of hospitals and health departments in cities and provinces to review and reorganise transport services for patients in hospitals.

The adoption of a one-door mechanism at civil judgement enforcement agencies must be expedited across the country to allow online applications for enforcement in the coming period, officials said.

Five people were injured after a container truck lost control crashing into a car and motorbikes on HCM City’s Hà Nội Highway yesterday afternoon.    

Seven Vietnamese fishermen are still missing after their fishing vessel QB3917TS collided with a Philippines cargo ship in central Quảng Trị Province’s territorial waters on Monday, Zing online newspaper reported.

Experts and officials are trying to decide what to do with a paper factory worth VNĐ3 trillion (US$133 million) in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Long An that has been out of operation for many years due to technical problems.

In the context of global integration and competition, a National Qualifications Framework is an important tool to develop a skilled and mobile workforce, experts have said.

The State should create a fair environment and legal system to help associations and civil social organisations to develop.

Besides the stereotypical jobs like masseurs and IT engineers, many other vocations are now available to blind people.

The impact of climate change and a rise in sea levels has accelerated the erosion of sea dykes in the Mekong Delta, with the southernmost province of Cà Mau being the most vulnerable.

HCM City will relocate 1,210 households in areas prone to land erosion by rivers and canals under a larger resettlement plan that will be carried out until 2020.