Thousands of parents in Hà Nội failed to register their children for their five-in-one Pentaxim vaccination on Thursday. The city’s Centre for Preventive Medicine could meet only one-thirtieth of the total demand for 91,000 vaccination doses.
Đà Nẵng Province’s Forest Protection Sub-department has dismissed two leaders of the Sơn Trà Peninsula Forest Management Unit and suspended two others over the recent deforestation issue.
A forest fire broke out today in northern mountainous Yên Bái Province’s Nậm Có Commune, vice chairman of the Mù Căng Chải District’s People’s Committee Lê Trọng Khang has said.
Eight fishermen aboard a fishing boat off the shore in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế suffered serious injuries and burns when a battery exploded on the vessel this morning.
Secretary of the Hà Nội Party Committee Hoàng Trung Hải yesterday said he hoped youth would play a key role in developing the capital’s economy.
All departments of education and training throughout the country have warned students not to ride electric bikes without registering them and installing number plates.
Health experts and policy makers discussed ways to improve the outcomes of patient care and the quality of pharma products at a symposium yesterday in Hà Nội.
Doctors from Đà Nẵng’s Paediatrics and Obstetrics Hospital and the International Pediatric Specialists Alliance (IPSAC) have successfully completed a surgery on a local three-month-old baby who had been born without an anus.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng has requested masterminds of a Hà Nội development master plan to work on a more orientation for the capital city and neighbouring provinces with focus on overhead and underground transport to ease traffic congestion.
The progress of the Dầu Giây-Phan Thiết Expressway and plans to acquire the lands required for it were discussed at a meeting on Tuesday between the project’s management agency and officials from provinces through which the expressway will run.
About 20 per cent of the Vietnamese population needs financial support, said Dr Nguyễn Ngọc Toản, deputy head of the Social Protection Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, yesterday at a workshop in Hà Nội.
Nearly 11,000 ha of natural forest which was allocated to local people in Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) Province of Đắk Lắk has suffered serious deforestation, said the provincial Agriculture and Rural Development.
The Project Management Unit of Railway of the Cát Linh-Hà Đông urban railway project admitted that it violated regulations pertaining to labour and occupational safety standards during construction.
Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng called for prompt actions to fight drought and saline intrusion while visiting the Mekong Delta province of Tiền Giang yesterday.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, head of the State Steering Committee for the National Mine Action Programme, has agreed to establish the Mine Action Partnership Group (MAPG).
Four employees of Đắk Lắk Province’s Cư Kuin General Hospital have been suspended from work for at least 15 days for causing a patient to lose her right leg.
Ten provinces and cities have received good valuation on food safety and hygiene management in 2015 from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
A Facebook user in the northern Thái Nguyên Province has been fined VNĐ12.5 million (US$560) for posting a fake story about children being kidnapped for their internal organs.
The Hà Nội Department of Education and Training will withdraw the regulation stipulating that pupils can be suspended from school for repeated traffic offences.
Việt Nam has banned the import of soil into the country, said the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development (MARD).
