Việt Nam News

Work began last Friday on the first phase of the Mỹ Thuỷ intersection in District 2 with total investment of nearly VNĐ838 billion (US$37.4 million), according to the city’s Department of Transport.

The government of HCM City on Friday (June 3) signed a US$450-million contract with a private company for a project to prevent tidal flooding in a 570-sq km area of the city.

HCM City’s Party Committee Secretary Đinh La Thăng has asked the privately owned Hoa Sen University to meet regulations to become a non-profit, private university and submit official documentation to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Tug of war, running and swimming were among the activities that autistic children took part in during the Friendly Sport Day held last week in HCM City.

Photo of the day -- Fish catching

The national action month for environmental protection kicked off at a ceremony in Lào Cai city on Saturday in response to World Environment Day which is marked today.

The corpses of three missing people, including two children, from a boat that capsized in the Hàn River in the central city of Đà Nẵng on Saturday were found at about 5pm yesterday.

The HCM City People’s Committee on Thursday (June 2, 2016) sanctioned several Minh Châu drugstores for selling smuggled cosmetics, dietary supplements and modern medicine, including antibiotics and prescribed drugs, in large quantities.

HCM City People’s Committee has asked the city’s departments, agencies and districts’ authorities to enhance management on trading of chemicals, especially to accelerate the remove the chemical trading Kim Biên Market from its current location, in an effort to prevent the city from fire and explosions.

Upgrades on the Hà Nội Irradiation Centre are expected to pave the way for more Vietnamese fruit, particularly those from the northern region, to reach overseas consumers.

The central province of Bình Định will host the 12^th Recontres du Việt Nam (Meeting Việt Nam) next month – an international science conference set to feature about 250 domestic and foreign scientists, including several Nobel Laureates.

National Hospital of Tropical Diseases doctors used ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation) technology to treat a serious case of pneumonia successfully in Hà Nội .

 Salt farmers in HCM City’s Cần Giờ District are facing low prices, resulting in a stockpile of salt that cannot be sold. 

Health insurance is compulsory under Vietnamese law - having health insurance is in everyone’s best interests and is everyone’s responsibility, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said.

The first hot spell of summer, with temperatures reaching up to 40 degrees Celsius, is threatening people’s health, especially children and the elderly, with hospitals in Hà Nội seeing a large number of patients with respiratory and high-blood pressure-cardiovascular problems.    

Two 220kV-electric poles, which were built with concrete mixed with soil, in Vụ Bản District of the northern province of Nam Định will be demolished, the Sông Đà Stock Company 11 said.

A new report released today warns of the possibility of a rise in gender inequality in Việt Nam.

Only 30-35 per cent of people facing a high risk of contracting HIV received HIV tests in the past year, according to statistics from the Việt Nam Administration of HIV Control.