Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City has brought the outbreak of swine flu (A/H1N1) under control, quarantining and treating those who tested positive and placing those suspected of being infected under close supervision.

A blaze at a waste dump in Ngọc Sơn Commune, Quỳnh Lưu District, left more than 30 residents hospitalised over the past two days due to smoke inhalation.

Tunnel-boring machines on June 29 completed the drilling of the second tunnel of the Metro Line No.1 connecting HCM City’s Bến Thành Terminal in District 1 with Suối Tiên Terminal in District 9 after more than five months of construction, according to the HCM City Management Authority for Urban Railways.  

A blaze at a waste dump in Ngọc Sơn Commune, Quỳnh Lưu District, left more than 30 residents hospitalised over the past two days due to smoke inhalation.

The Ministry of Transport has asked the Airport Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) to evaluate the feasibility of building a transit station in District 1 to connect to Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City.

Electricity supply was resumed on Cô Tô island in northern QuảngNinh Province on Friday after the power line was struck by lightning earlier this month.

The People’s Court of central Bình Định Province on Thursday delayed the first-instance trial in a large-scale deforestation case in An Lão District last year.

Nearly 4,000 households in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai’s Krông Pa District have been using contaminated water.

Households in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Nông have complained that explosions at a nearby hydropower plant construction site may be causing damage to their homes.

A court in northern Ninh Bình Province on Wednesday sentenced an HIV-infected paedophile to two-and-half years in prison for sexually assaulting a neighbour.

The Journalism for Sustainable Development Award (JSD Award), launched on Thursday, aims to support the media in joining sustainable development process.  

 The capital city of Hà Nội has created favourable conditions for luring investment in infrastructure under the build-transfer (BT) mode, but municipal authorities require that BT investments be transparent and comply with the law.

Ministry of Transport (MoT) has invited some police officers to participate in monitoring activities on build-transfer (BT) and build-operate-transfer (BOT) projects.

All ports along the Sài Gòn River will be relocated by the end of the year to reduce pressure on transport in HCM City, according to a report from the Transport Ministry submitted to the Government.  

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc held meetings with leaders of the South Pacific countries of Nauru and Marshall as well as South America's Guyana on the sidelines of the sixth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in central Đà Nẵng yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc asked the World Bank (WB) to continue its financial and technical support for Việt Nam during his meeting with the WB’s Vice President for East Asia and Pacific Victoria Kwakwa on the sidelines of the sixth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in central Đà Nẵng yesterday.

Doctors at Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City have carried out kidney removal from living donors using robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery.

The Việt Nam Red Cross Society in collaboration with the National Humanitarian Portal 1400 has launched an SMS campaign to mobilise funds to support Agent Orange victims in Việt Nam.

HCM City is calling for investment in a new inland container depot (ICD) project with total costs of VNĐ5.8 trillion (US$ 250 million) in Long Bình Ward in District 9.    

An inauguration ceremony in the city was held yesterday (June 26) to open Romania’s Honorary Consulate Office at No 214 Võ Thị Sáu Street in HCM City’s District 3.