The Ministry of Health and the US-based Abbott Company on September 21 signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in two projects to improve the quality of clinical nutrition at hospitals and among pregnant and nursing women. 

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has urged ministries and agencies to enhance measures to prevent and control HIV/AIDS, drugs and prostitution from now to the end of the year.

Doctors have warned of possible outbreaks of seasonal diseases such as pinkeye, viral fever and respiratory tract infections.

VOV.VN - Confident about the bright prospects for the pharmaceutical segment of the Vietnam economy, hundreds of international companies have set up exhibition booths displaying healthcare products at an expo in Ho Chi Minh City.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has emphasised the prompt delivery of compensation to residents in four central provinces affected by the serious marine pollution incident earlier this year as well as support for them to resume normal life and production.

Pollution in HCM City canals is worsening as large quantities of household and industrial wastewater, as well as rubbish, are being discharged or dumped into city canals, according to the city’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

Local experts and architects have expressed concern over the design of a subway project in Hanoi, with one of the aboveground entrances and exits to be located near the capital’s iconic Hoan Kiem Lake.

Hanoi's Department of Transport is considering a ban on non-resident motorbikes entering the inner city from 2021, among several other measures to tighten management over personal vehicles in the capital.

Agencies are planning to build an environmental monitoring system to control possible radioactive substance leakage from large-capacity energy reactors built by the Chinese and located 300 kilometers from Hanoi.

PCCW Media Group from Hong Kong is ramping up its presence in the region with the launch of the MOOV music app, in partnership with telecommunications services provider Vietnamobile.

Overseas Vietnamese youths who won a writing contest on the nation’s sacred sovereignty over its seas and islands will have the opportunity to receive a meaningful reward: a visit to the Truong Sa (Spratly) Archipelago.

Work started on September 20 on Go May Overpass, which will span the intersection of National Highway 1A, Le Trong Tan Street and Nguyen Thi Tu Street in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Tan District.

The agriculture ministry says it will monitor the quality of seafood at fishing ports in four affected central provinces.

Ho Chi Minh City is poised to construct a new bridge spanning its major river, creating an additional route for commuters who wish to cross the waterway.

Indicators relating to the sea water quality in Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue provinces are mostly within allowable limits, with the contents of iron, phenol and cyanide declining remarkably, heard a conference in Hanoi on September 20.

Respective tracks of the Cambodia-Thailand railroad were connected at a bridge at the two countries-shared Poipet border gate on September 19.

The health sector of the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has taken measures against mosquito-borne Zika virus at international border gates. 

The chapter of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)'s Executive Council in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on September 20 held a ceremony marking the 35th founding anniversary of the VBS (November 7, 1981-2016).

Various documents, publications and maps, including those published by China, which prove Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes are on display at an exhibition in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong. 

Local governments play a key role in implementing health care programmes and coordinating the cooperation of stakeholders to help people easily access high-quality, reasonable-cost health care services, stated Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien

Twenty-one big projectiles recently found in a garden in Huong Hoa district, the central province of Quang Tri, have been successfully defused and removed. 

VOV.VN -  Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee President Nguyen Thien Nhan has urged the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (VGCL) to improve its performance to better protect workers’ rights 

Border guards of the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai and Honghe county in China’s Yunnan province organised an exercise on cross border terrorism prevention on September 20. 

VOV.VN -Hanoi drivers face the worst congestion in the nation and spend countless hours per year stuck in traffic delays— but the commute to work on the morning of September 20 was even worse than usual.

The confirmed death toll of the boat accident on Chao Phraya River in Ayuthaya province of Thailand climbed to 29 on September 20 morning while three others are still missing, according to local authorities. 

The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) of the Czech Republic held a seminar on Vietnam’s foreign and economic development policies on September 19 with Vietnamese Ambassador Truong Manh Son invited as the only speaker. 

VOV.VN - With just VND2,000 or 10 cents, poor workers can buy either a book, a pair of shoes, a bottle of oil, or even a new costume offered by the group E2k-Hanoi.  

Residents of Ho Chi Minh City have struggled to deal with the highest tides since the beginning of this year, which hit the southern hub on September 19.

In a surprise move, a senior lawmaker calls for amending the law and allowing foreigners to work as tour guides in Vietnam.

The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang is stepping up afforestation in an effort to reduce erosion and tackle climate change.