Việt Nam News

Infrastructure around the Cái Mép – Thị Vải port cluster, the only port cluster that can receive large container vessels in Việt Nam, is expected to be upgraded so that it can become a major national and international port.

The Hồ Chí Minh City People’s Committee has submitted for Government approval a list of priority transportation and sanitation investment projects that will be developed in a Public Private Partnership (PPP) format between 2016 and 2020.

A solemn memorial service and burial ceremony for 351 sets of remains of revolutionary Vietnamese martyrs was organised yesterday at 82 Hill Martyrs Cemetery in the southeast province of Tây Ninh, which borders Việt Nam and Cambodia.

Indonesia yesterday repatriated 65 Vietnamese fishermen who were arrested in April and May for accidently fishing in Indonesia’s seas.

The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam under the Transport Ministry is developing preferential mechanisms and incentives to better attract investors to roadside rest stop projects.

A national programme to improve doctors’ awareness of screening and treatment of congenital metabolic disorders among children, begun in 2014, has helped reduce the mortality rate from 50 per cent to around 10 per cent.

The need for multidisciplinary collaborations in the fight against viral hepatitis will be highlighted in a two-day international conference to start on July 30 at 272 Convention Centre in HCM City’s District 3.

The Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control and the National Committee for Search and Rescue held a teleconference yesterday to discuss measures to cope with storm Mirinae – the first to batter Việt Nam this year.

The first TV game show for healthcare employees and physicians, called Đặc Nhiệm Blouse Trắng (White Blouse Special Mission), will air on HCM City Television in September

Doctors at the HCM City University Medical Centre are set to perform laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery using indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence for the first time in Việt Nam.

Việt Nam and the United States will work together in conducting humanitarian activities, especially in community-based disaster risk management and climate change adaptation projects.

The central coastal Khánh Hòa Province’s People’s Committee plans to shut down floating restaurants after one restaurant collapsed, killing two people in Vĩnh Hy Bay in the nearby Ninh Thuận Province earlier this week.

The 11^th Korean language test will be held this October for those wishing to work in South Korea, the Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Ministry's Overseas Labour Management Department said.

Eight inspection teams from the Ministry of Health (MoH) have checked Zika virus disease and dengue fever prevention and control measures in 16 provinces and cities, the Preventive Medicines Centre said today.

The HCM City People’s Court today sentenced a 56-year-old woman to 15 years in jail for fraud and appropriation of property.

Tokyo Human Health Sciences University Việt Nam has started offering undergraduate courses to Vietnamese students, with a training capacity of up to 1,200 people.

Malnutrition rates, both underweight and stunting, of children under five years old has reduced slightly in Việt Nam in 2015, a report of the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) released today said.

Smart traffic measures will be applied to digital maps for road transport along more than 20,000km of highway stretching across the country.