Forty-five out of 49 people aboard the Vinh Xanh 58 tourist boat had been found as of 1:40 am on July 20 following the tragic capsizing incident in Ha Long Bay a day earlier, with 10 survivors, 35 confirmed dead, and four still unaccounted for, the People’s Committee of Quang Ninh province announced on July 20 morning.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed and issued Official Dispatch No. 114, urging urgent search and rescue operations and prompt measures to address the aftermath of the boat capsizing in Quang Ninh.
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh on December 27 signed a Prime Minister’s official dispatch requiring an urgent investigation into a boarding house fire that killed two people in Ho Chi Minh City earlier the same day.
There were 16,043 traffic accidents nationwide from December 15, 2023 to August 14, 2023, killing 7,077 people and injuring 12,248 others, reported the Office of the National Traffic Safety Committee on August 27.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on July 24 asked ministries, agencies and localities to focus on settling the consequences of storm Prapiroon – the second of its kind that to hit Vietnam this year.
Medics at the King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital of Thailand on July 17 confirmed that the four Vietnamese and two Americans found dead in the Grand Hyatt Erawan Hotel in Bangkok died from cyanide poisoning.
At least nine people died when a 15-seater mini bus traveling in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang was buried by a landslide triggered by heavy rains on early July 13.
A landslide at an illegal gold mine in Gorontalo province on central Indonesia’s Sulawesi island killed at least 23 people as of July 9 while 35 others are still missing.
All tobacco products produced or imported for sale in Laos must have 75% of their cigarette packages featured with graphic health warning images from December.
The number of dengue patients in Thailand so far this year has reached 17,783, more than double the figure in last year’s corresponding period, Thai Public Health Minister Cholnan Srikaew has said.
Vietnam has mastered modern techniques in cardiology, therefore the ratio of heart patients needing to go abroad for treatment is very small, Nguyen Lan Viet, vice chairman of Vietnam National Heart Association (VNHA) has said.
The national COVID-19 caseload rose to 11,376,571 with 3,295 new cases recorded on the past 24 hours to 4pm August 18, a three-month high, according to the Ministry of Health.
