Children’s hospitals in HCM City are getting a large number of patients with respiratory ailments and diarrhoea due to an ongoing hot spell in southern region with temperatures rising up to 37 degrees Celsius.
A fisherman in Bình Định Province was rescued at sea, 200 nautical miles off the Đà Nẵng coast.
The Department of Education plans to ask the city to issue detailed regulations on private services for students who must attend school in either a morning or afternoon shift.
The Ministry of Transport (MoT) has fined Việt Trì Bridge BOT JSC for illegally blocking vehicles from traveling on Hạc Trì Bridge in this northern province.
Prosecutors and police in southern Đồng Nai Province’s Nhơn Trạch District yesterday apologised for wrongly arresting and prosecuting a local woman who had reported illegal sand dredging in September 2015.
Portrait of a young girl from the Hà Nhì ethnic group in the northern mountainous Bát Xát District, Lào Cai Province. -- VNS Photo Việt Thanh
Three people died and six others were hospitalised for gas asphyxiation on Saturday morning in Hưng Mỹ Commune, in the southernmost Cà Mau Province’s Cái Nước District, after a biogas tank purportedly leaked near their houses.
A dead whale found on a beach in central Thừa Thiên-Huế yesterday morning has provided clear evidence of an environmental incident taking place in the coastal stretch of four central provinces.
HCM City has obtained significant progress in gender equality and empowerment of women and girls in the last five years, Nguyễn Trọng Đàm, deputy minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, said at a conference held on Friday in HCM City.
The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has asked provincial departments of education and training to build swimming pools in schools to give swimming training to students.
Experts have urged the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces to rezone irrigation systems and dredge canals to cope with the damaging effects of climate change.
An earthquake measuring a magnitude of 4.7 on the Richter scale was recorded Saturday morning in Mường Nhé District, northern Điện Biên Province, according to the Điện Biên Phủ Seismic Observation Station.
Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam yesterday said information technology needed to further develop to help the country maintain a high growth rate in order to catch up with other developed countries in the region.
Việt Nam and China has recently completed their joint survey of waters off the mouth of the Gulf of Tonkin.
The central province started construction of two key projects – the Nam Hội An Integrated Resort Project and the expansion of the Trường Hải-Chu Lai Mechanical Automobile Industrial Zone – in ceremonies yesterday.
Representative from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development yesterday told Deputy Prime Minister Trịnh Đình Dũng that in three to five days, they would have the conclusion for the reason of the massive death of fish along coastal provinces in the past two weeks.
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Trần Hồng Hà said Việt Nam needs to shift its development model, which is based on low labour costs and natural resources, to a clean and environmentally-friendly model to prepare for the Paris Agreement’s implementation.
Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City in the last year has applied a number of advanced techniques in diagnosis and treatment, including organ transplans and PET/CT scans, according to the hospital director Nguyễn Trường Sơn.
The Vietnamese Journalism Association should pay more attention to the improvement of its members’ political and professional skills since the social and media environments have become complex, the head of the Central Publicity and Education Commission, Võ Văn Thưởng, told a journalists’ meeting yesterday.
A national social media campaign that will begin on April 25 will promote social change by giving parents a forum to discuss road safety and helmet use.
