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.
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).
At least two people died while 13 others were seriously injured after a tank truck collided a 24-seater coach in the northern province of Hòa Bình’s Mai Châu District yesterday afternoon.
Hà Nội Police are investigating local media reports that most police patrol bicycles are in mothballs in police stations in the Nam Từ Liêm, Hà Đông and Long Biên districts.
State officials say the implementation of the Social Insurance Law, which went into effect at the beginning of the year, has made matters complicated.
At a workshop yesterday in Hà Nội, a representative from the World Bank (WB) said Việt Nam should have a comprehensive and strategic assessment of the problem. It should fine-tune plans on using water resources.
The northern Bắc Ninh Province and Thailand’s King Prajadhipok’s Institute (KPI) exchanged experiences in socio-economic development during a meeting in the province yesterday.
The Supreme People's Procuracy yesterday indicted nine former officials of VN Pharma on charges of smuggling and creating counterfeit documents to import medicines.
Police in HCM City yesterday said the drug criminal investigation department (PC47) has smashed a large drug trafficking ring the city.
Television and radio stations in the country are no longer allowed to partner to produce news and political programmes, according to a new governmental regulation that took effect yesterday.
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