Việt Nam News

HCM City is urging districts with low COVID-19 vaccination rates for children to speed up their inoculation efforts to protect kids from the disease before the new school year in September.

The Ministry of Health has underlined that homosexuality is not a disorder, demanding rectification of medical centres and experts who say they can “cure” homosexuality.

Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính yesterday chaired a national virtual conference to review six months of implementing a project on the application of a population database, e-identification, and e-authentication.

About 6,500 organ transplants have been carried out in Viet Nam since the first in 1992, showing great efforts by the entire health sector, but the figure is still modest compared to other countries, an official has said.

The Ministry of Health has urged health departments nationwide to strengthen inspection and crackdown on businesses that illegally speculate and sell influenza drugs, rapid testing kits and other medical device to help preventing flu at rising prices.

As part of a new pilot programme, physical barriers have been installed to separate car and motorbike lanes on Nguyễn Trãi Street in Hà Nội. The plan, which will last until September 6, aims to solve traffic jams on one of the capital city’s busiest streets, but has already caused confusion for motorists.

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Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Lê Minh Hoan said that dragon fruit producers must reorganise their production as per market demand.

Residents of Phúc Đồng Ward in Hà Nội's Long Biên District have been doing their bit to spruce up the area and get rid of trash in a sustainable way.

Experts from 25 northern provinces and cities contributed opinions to the draft amended Law on Land during a conference on Monday in Hà Nội.

Quảng Ninh, Thừa Thiên-Huế, Ninh Bình and Cà Mau are four out of 28 coastal provinces nationwide completing the installation of vessel monitoring system devices on all fishing vessels, the directorate said.

Summer volunteer programmes and campaigns have honed the quality of volunteering teams involved in activities to help improve people’s lives and working environment.

The Railway Project Management Board under the Ministry of Transport was assigned to be investors in upgrading projects of roads, bridges and stations with a total length of nearly 1,000km.

The amendment was made while keeping the same stance in terms of vision, goals of the overall curriculum, and the specific features of the history subject.

Two Vietnamese entertainers allegedly involved in the sexual assault of a 17-year-old British girl returned to Việt Nam on Sunday.

The latest guidelines from the health ministry concerning the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of monkeypox still have not prescribed vaccines to the general public.