The mostly publicly financed health care system in Vietnam has only been able to afford to pour resources into a handful of central level hospitals in big cities, forcing patients living in remote areas with serious diseases to go to Hanoi or HCM City for treatment.
People travelling to the Mekong Delta during Tet should visit Sa Dec flower village in Dong Thap province to admire flowers blooming in vivid colours and the bustling atmosphere.
Police of the northern province of Quang Ninh and the Ministry of Public Security said on February 5 that they arrested two Chinese persons who are being wanted by Chinese police for swindling and appropriating assets.
The number of local consumers using E5 petrol in their autos has been increasing rapidly, though bio-fuel has only been put into use nationwide for just the past month.
Thailand thanks the Vietnamese government for facilitating Thai investors doing business in Vietnam, said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha told Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyen Hai Bang who paid him a courtesy visit in Bangkok on January 31.
The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of central Quang Nam province has urged its chapters to work with local authorities to help storm-hit people repair and rebuild houses as Tet, Vietnam’s traditional New Year holiday, is approaching.
The People’s Committee of Dak Nong province has adopted a plan to expand clean water supply and environmental sanitation services in rural areas in 2018.
All Vietnamese citizens, both at home and overseas, and foreigners living in Vietnam are invited to join a song writing contest for children with heart defects, namely “Viet Tiep Uoc Mo” (Keep writing dreams).
Vietnamese police on January 30 returned a fugitive Chinese man, alleged to have illegally destroyed forest area, to Chinese police at Mong Cai International Border Gate in the northern province of Quang Ninh.
Vietnam saw decreases in the number of new HIV infections, people living with AIDS and AIDS-related fatalities for the tenth consecutive year in 2017, according to the Ministry of Health.
Despite the last-minute defeat in the final of the AFC U23 Championship, Vietnam’s U23 warriors get big applauses from foreign media for their success during the tournament.
The courage and passion of Vietnamese U23 players seemed to melt the snow, OSEN, a news website based in the Republic of Korea commented on the final between Vietnam and Uzbekistan in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U23 Championship.
The Saigon Jewellery Association (SJA) will continue to call on the State Bank of Vietnam to make it easier for jewellery businesses, who seek to invest in upgrading their production and trading technology, in accessing bank loans, its chairman said.
Blockchain, a new technology to help explore the various forms of crypto-currencies, could open up new attractive environment for all businesses and investors, said Nguyen Duc Cuong, head of consultancy division at Vietstock – a local financial-business media.
The memorandum of understanding on the establishment of friendship and cooperation between the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau and Veneto, an Italian region, has received approval by Veneto President Luca Zaia.
Portugal backs the early signing of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement, Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Augusto Santos Silva told Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue during their meeting in Lisbon.
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