Việt Nam News

One person was killed and four others seriously injured in a traffic accident this morning inside the Thu Thiem Tunnel in HCM City.

Many cows and buffaloes in the central highland of Đắk Lắk have died from eating indigestible food after suffering from hungers due to a serious shortage of drinking water and food caused by devastating heat wave, local agricultural authority has said.

A campaign to destroy mosquitoes and their larvae was launched yesterday in the southeast province of Đồng Nai to prevent the spread of dengue fever and the Zika virus.

Some 292,000 disadvantaged people in the four provinces of Hà Giang, Quảng Nam, Lâm Đồng and Trà Vinh have benefited from a cash transfer programme that has been trialled for nearly a year.

 Thanks to technical assistance from surgeons at HCM City’s Thủ Đức District Hospital, doctors at District 11 Hospital were able to perform, for the first time, operations on a broken leg and hernia.

The empowerment of women and girls in Việt Nam has reached significant achievements, said Hoàng Thị Thu Huyền, deputy director of the Department of Gender Equality under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Việt Nam is seeing an increase in the number of people with anaphylaxis, according to experts at a conference last week on emergency critical care medicine and medical toxicology.

After Đồng Nai Province, it is now the turn of Bình Dương to seek extension of HCM City’s first metro route from Bến Thành to Suối Tiên so that it can reach the province’s Mỹ Phước-Tân Vạn Road.

More than a thousand tourists who were stuck on Monday on Cù Lao Chàm Island in the central province were taken safely to the mainland yesterday morning.

The central city's environmental police department, along with the veterinary sub-department, seized 780kg of packaged and fresh pork fat from an illegal processing house in Liên Chiểu District yesterday.

A fire broke out in the Phú Yên market in Hải Dương City in the northern province of Hải Dương this morning.

The central city’s Đông Á College and William Angliss Institute from Australia have started a personnel training programme for the hospitality, tourism and culinary arts sectors for the 2016-17 period.

A tractor collided with a bridge’s handrail and fell into the sandbank on the Hương River in Huế City today, killing the driver.

The Vietnamese Consulate General in Fukuoka, Japan, is actively carrying out measures to support Vietnamese nationals affected by the recent back-to-back earthquakes in Kumamoto Prefecture and its surrounding areas.

More than 1,000 tourists who were stuck yesterday on Cù Lao Chàm Island in this central province were safely taken to the mainland this morning.

Environmental police in Hà Nội have seized 1.3 tonnes of food and additives whose origin is unknown and 10,000 packs of various kinds of candy.

Doctors called for better personal hygiene and nutrition among children to prevent and fight against hand-foot-mouth disease, especially during the period from March to May, which typically sees the biggest spread of the disease each year in Việt Nam.

A total of 83 traffic accidents have been reported nation-wide during the three-day holiday in commemoration of the Hùng kings, killing 63 people and injuring another 56, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.