Trần Thị Ngọc, 81, of Thủ Đức District’s Bình Chiểu Ward, no longer goes to the district hospital for treating her joint and heart diseases as the latter recently opened a satellite clinic at the ward health centre.
The Ministry of Transport has submitted to the Government a scheme to build the North-South Highway from Hà Nội to HCM City with total investment of about VNĐ230 trillion (US$10.2 billion).
The capital city’s administration has resumed the project to cut grass and trim plant project following a three-month cancellation over complaints of unnecessary expenditure.
Medical waste is threatening the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ due to difficulties in treating this hazardous solid waste at local healthcare facilities.
Malaysian police yesterday rescued 26 Vietnamese women from a brothel in Bandar Botanic, Klang, Kuala Lumpur.
Demolition work on the Sài Gòn Tax Trade Centre, built by the French 135 years ago, began yesterday (Oct 12) in HCM City to make way for a 40-storey office and hotel tower and the first metro subway route.
The upcoming pilot programme for Public-Private Partnership (PPP), which was recently approved by the Prime Minister, will focus on strengthening the country’s science and technology progress.
Difficult living conditions at relocation villages in Lai Châu Province have forced people who have lived there for a decade to move back to their hometown.
The HCM City Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has advised dairy farmers having cows with low milk yields to switch to higher-yield cows or oxen for their meat.
A delegation of the Health Department in the central province of Nghệ An yesterday visited Diễn Châu District to directly instruct locals to urgently control the spread of the dengue disease.
New cargo trains which reduce transportation time were put into operation this morning in Giáp Bát Station.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV) has asked for approval from the ministries of Transport and National Defence to build a reservoir to solve flooding at Tân Sơn Nhất Airport.
Up to 15 serious labour safety violations at coal mines in northern Quảng Ninh province were reported in the first nine months of this year, killing 18 people and injured dozens of others, Lao Động (Labour) newspaper reported.
In August alone, there were five cases, leaving six coal miners dead.
Many health facilities in HCM City have run out of flu vaccines at a time when the peak flu season is arriving.
The head of the HCM City AIDS Prevention Centre has asked the Việt Nam Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS to help the country reach the 90-90-90 targets set by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS to help end the AIDS epidemic by 2030.
Over the next five years, the Asian Development Bank will support investment and policy reforms in Viet Nam that promote more inclusive and environmentally sustainable economic growth.
Việt Nam has honoured its commitment to the Paris climate agreement through diverse activities under the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) framework which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
A children’s protection programme will try to lower the proportion of disadvantaged children and those who are identified as vulnerable under the current rate of 4.3 per cent from now to 2020, according to goals set by the HCM City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.
The Vietnamese Foreign Ministry is very concerned about a12-year-old pregnant girl in China who is supposedly a Vietnamese national, Deputy Spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry Pham Thu Hang said.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has tasked the Ministry of Health to quickly clarify contents in the article reported by Thanh Niên (Young People) newspaper about “industrial” fish sauces containing a number of chemical additives selling in the market.
