Việt Nam News

An integration programme on military – civil medical services has created an extensive network of healthcare services and disease prevention and consolidated the country’s healthcare system at the grassroots over the past ten years.

The trial installation of security camera systems in the central city of Đà Nẵng has helped the city to discover and prevent hundreds of crimes.

HCM City authorities are taking several measures to ease traffic congestion at the city’s main gateways, including widening of a section of National Highway No. 13 and the construction of an underground tunnel.

Women participating in a seminar yesterday in the southern province of Bình Thuận said collaboration on gender issues was essential in building laws and policies.

More than 50 per cent of asthma patients have poor control of their disease, despite the availability of treatments to help manage their condition, according to the Society of Asthma and Allergy and Clinical Immunology in HCM City.

Concerned sectors must give stricter punishment to violations related to waterway traffic safety, illegal mineral exploiting and dike safety in Hà Nội, said Nguyễn Thế Hùng, deputy chairman of the Hà Nội People’s Committee in a conference held on Tuesday in the capital.

One person was killed and 18 others were seriously injured when a shuttle bus carrying workers flipped over and rolled over several times in Long An Province on Tuesday (May 10) night.

There are no Zika patients in District 7, where a South Korean woman found to have the disease had lived and worked, the HCM City Preventive Medicine Centre said on Tuesday.

Chairman of the People’s Committee of Hà Nội Nguyễn Đức Chung has given the green light to prepare a plan to build an eco resort in Đông Anh District.

The Ministry of Health has collected samples of two beverages sold by Việt Nam URC Co., Ltd., to test for lead in response to allegations it was selling poor-quality products.

Authorities and relevant agencies have sealed at least 28 fabric dyeing machines of the Mei Sheng Textiles Việt Nam Co. Ltd in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu.

Heavy rainfall and whirlwinds blew away the roofs of tens of houses and severely damaged high-tech agricultural cages in the Central Highland province of Đắk Nông. The loss is estimated to run into billions of đồng.

Nearly 140 samples of seafood, vegetables and water in the four central coastal provinces which suffered mass fish deaths are determined to be safe and within the prescribed level.

Thirty-three caged-fish breeding farmers have sued over a dozen seafood enterprises, claiming that wastewater discharged into Chà Và River in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu resulted in the loss of their fish.

There has yet to be a definitive conclusion on the cause of mass fish deaths in the central region, but nonetheless, local residents whose diets rely on seafood and fishermen living along the coast from Hà Tĩnh to Thừa Thiên-Huế have been suffering.

Việt Nam has been making strong efforts to secure equal rights for women and men, but violence against women and girls in the country was still a severe issue, experts stated in a workshop on gender equality launched yesterday in Hà Nội.

Ministers, Government officials and People’s Committee leaders should improve management of food safety and hygiene, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said in a recent directive.

The Mekong Delta province of Bến Tre has called for greater support from international NGOs in areas like healthcare and education and combating the impacts of climate change.