Hospitals and clinics in Vietnam have started implementing surveillance of nosocomial infections and monitoring the hospital-infection control process, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien said at a recent meeting.

The Ho Chi Minh City Development Joint Stock Commercial Bank (HDBank) has won the Platinum Award, the highest recognition, at the 2017 Vision Awards Annual Report Competition organised by the League of American Communications Professionals.

Top Vietnamese chess player Le Quang Liem finished second at the ninth Danzhou Super Grandmaster Tournament which concluded in China’s Hainan province on August 3.

Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Industry and Trade met with more than 50 experts, researchers and business leaders at a meeting on August 3 to discuss solutions to develop the city’s main products in the trading and services sector.

There is a house and workshop in Hanoi’s Hai Ba Trung district where disabled people from across the country can come for a better life.

Major economic hubs of big cities and provinces nationwide have announced ambitious multi-billion dollar projects to become smart cities, well-equipped to take advantage of opportunities presented by the digital age.

Many well-known consumer brands of the past are making a comeback in Vietnam, indicating a new-found confidence on the part of local companies to take on multinational rivals.

Vietnam is persuading international financial institutions, including the Asian Development Bank (ADB), to expand their funding for the local private sector and reduce government guarantees for those activities, since Vietnam is among the countries that will stop being funded by ADB in 2019 due to becoming a middle-income economy.

Nguyen Hai An, 7, from Hanoi’s Nam Tu Liem district, took her last breath on February 22. But before she passed away in her K Hospital sickbed, she and her mother agreed that she would give her cornea to people who could use it.

Hoang Trung Hai, Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, talks to Viet Nam News Agency about the city’s achievements in 2017 and plans for 2018.