The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Friday proposed a ban on beer advertisement besides liquor advertisement like present.

The collection of indirect taxes in Việt Nam is forecasted to increase in the coming time while direct taxes is predicted to account for a smaller proportion, according to a Fair Tax Monitor Index report released by Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) yesterday.

The application of the economic watering model has helped increase productivity by 10-15 per cent and reduced the cost of labourers as well.

Nearly 900 irrigation systems in the northern mountainous province of Điện Biên will be reinforced in preparation for the flood season to come.

The relatives of nine victims who died due to contaminated dialysis machines asked a court on Monday to acquit one of the defendants in the case.

Phạm Thanh Hải, 52, former director of the International Trading, Investment and Technology Development (IDT) joint stock company, received a life sentence Monday afternoon for defrauding hundreds of investors.  

Việt Nam is among the countries in the Asia-Pacific with an alarming incidence of gestational diabetes, Dr Lê Quang Thanh, head of Từ Dũ Hospital in HCM City, has said.  

Protecting the environment is now becoming a common motivation of enterprises’s long term strategy, Nguyễn Thế Chinh, head of the Institute of Strategy and Policy on Natural Resources and Environment said at an event on May 22.

Three hospital staff members in the southern province of Đồng Nai were suspended from work on Monday after selling expired medicines to a patient last week.

Children and pregnant women lack access to health services in remote, border and island areas, creating a major challenge for the national programme to eliminate the transmission of HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis from mothers to children, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyễn Viết Tiến said in Hà Nội on May 22.

The first-instance trial for the accident at Hòa Bình General Hospital that killed nine people in May last year ended its sixth day on May 22 with a question and answer series among defendants and the board of judges. 

More than VNĐ116 trillion (US$5.04 billion) is needed to upgrade Long Thành, Nội Bài and Tân Sơn Nhất airports for the 2018-21 period, with a vision to 2025, according to the State-owned Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV) investment plan.

Operating vehicles under the influence of alcohol will be officially banned from Wednesday as part of the Law on Prevention and Control of Alcoholic Beverages’ Harmful Effects.

The implementation of the national drug supply chain management system will help the health sector manage the supply of medicine and prevent the purchase of medicine without prescription.

Scientists and researchers from Việt Nam and Britain have come together for a five-day workshop in Hà Nội to seeks solutions to help the Red River-Hà Nội Delta (RRHD) develop a megacity catchment observatory to cope with multiple disasters in the future.

HCM City’s police busted an illegal gambling operation run by Đặng Văn Quý, 45, a native of southern Đồng Nai Province on Tuesday.  

The HCM City Department of Health and Hóc Môn District People’s committee have launched a campaign to provide reproductive healthcare and birth control services to people working in industrial zones and living in economically disadvantaged areas.    

The Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng plans to improve management of noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and epilepsy, as well as schizophrenia, under instruction from the Ministry of Health.

Unlicensed beaches operating in Hạ Long City in Quảng Ninh Province during summer have made local authorities worried, reported the online newspaper vov.vn.