The Singapore National Heart Centre will help the Military Hospital 175 in Ho Chi Minh City build a cardiac rehabilitation clinic, according to a pact signed between the sides in Ho Chi Minh City on March 8.

Deputy Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Thanh has led a Vietnamese delegation to attend the three-day Global Cities Summit 2017 that opened in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on March 7.

The management and sharing of data on forests in Vietnam was the main topic of a workshop co-organised in HCM City on March 8 by the General Department of Forestry under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Finnish Embassy.

Households in the capital’s Old Quarters can enjoy preferential tax rates if they offer motorbike parking services in their premises, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has said.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has requested the establishment of four inspection teams to examine the compensation for residents who were affected by the marine environment incident in the central provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue last year.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has called for better training to improve Vietnamese workers’ foreign language and career skills to make them more qualified for working overseas.

VOV.VN - The 12th Congress of Vietnamese Women continued its 2nd day in Hanoi on March 8 with a focus on discussing the role played by women in the building of new rural areas through movements of the Vietnam Women’s Union.

The central province of Binh Dinh will spend VND392 billion (US$17.2 million) on searching for unexploded ordnance (UXO) in 2016 – 2020, according to Nguyen Van Hung, Head of Engineering Division of the provincial Military Command.

A ceremony was held on March 8 to inaugurate a VND1.5 billion (US$65,790) primary school in Dak Koi commune of Kon Ray district, one of the three most impoverished localities in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum.

Following the efforts of authorities of Ham Thuan Bac district in the central province of Binh Thuan, illegal sand mining in Ham Liem commune has stopped, Radio the Voice of Vietnam (VOV) reported.

An International Conference on Environmental Pollution, Restoration, and Management gathered international scientists in central Binh Dinh province to discuss environmental issues as well as share research results and management experience.

The Hanoi Health Department has announced two hotlines, 0949396115 and 0969082115, for H7N9 avian flu prevention, heard an online meeting on plans to prevent diseases in humans in Hanoi on March 7. 

The Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine inked a deal with the University of Liège, Belgium for a Europe-standard family medicine training programme in HCM City on March 7.

VOV.VN - One of the most thankless jobs in Vietnam is that of the garbage collectors. These are women and men that are part of our daily lives, taking away all our decay, the stuff we don’t want or that no longer serves us.

The People’s Court of the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on March 7 sentenced a Cambodian national a 25-year imprisonment on charge of murder and illegally storage and use of military weapon.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc discussed gender equality, start-up and economic development with women delegates at a dialogue in Hanoi on March 7.

VOV.VN - Police officers and cadets are preparing for the upcoming military parade to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Special Police Battalion No.1 on March 9. Here are photos of the practise:

Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO) Don Tuan Phong has welcomed members of the US Veterans For Peace (VFP) group to study Vietnamese culture and people and post-war consequences in the country, said.

A programme called “Proud Vietnamese women” was held in Hanoi on March 7 as part of activities to mark the 107th International Women’s Day (March 8) and the 12th National Women’s Congress.

Singapore’s experience in sustainable urban development such as transport, environment, trade and industry was shared with officials of Ho Chi Minh City during a working session on March 7.

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long on March 6 sent an urgent official dispatch asking local authorities to step up preventive measures against whooping cough.

A delegation of left-wing women from Argentina and Chile, led by President of the Argentina-Vietnam Cultural Institute (ICAV) Poldi Sosa, visited the War Remnants Museum and met with former Con Dao female prisoners in Ho Chi Minh City on March 7.

A Vietnamese merchant ship was saved from robbery or kidnapping recently thanks to the Malaysian Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom), according to the country’s Bernama News Agency.

Authorities in Dong Nai Province are pressing public disorder charges against 49 inmates of a drug rehab center for inciting other inmates to escape in October and November 2016.

Foreign nationals working in Vietnam will be subject to a new statutory social insurance regulation early next year, something which has sparked concern among European enterprises in the country.

Head of the Management Center of the Saigon River Tunnel Le Minh Triet has said that as per the traffic digital map management system, a system of 300 surveillance cameras will be installed in traffic jam-prone spots. 

VOV.VN - Military doctors and nurses in Truong Sa Island District, Khanh Hoa province, must fulfill two missions at the same time: provide health care to islanders and soldiers living there and provide first aid and emergency medical treatment to fishermen engaged in offshore fishing.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport and Laos’s Ministry of Public Works and Transport are set to take the next steps to soon implement the project on building an expressway linking capital cities Hanoi and Vientiane in 2017.

The central city of Da Nang and the Irish Embassy in Vietnam have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on high quality human resources education, management skills for the city’s personnel and start-up programmes for students in the central city.

The central province of Nghe An has set a goal of having 225 communes and three districts recognised as new-style rural areas by 2020.