The HCM City Department of Health views this success as an initial outcome in the specialised field of foetal congenital heart intervention.

More than 80 per cent of overseas Vietnamese are living in industrial and developed countries and major global economic hubs.

The capital city of Hanoi has witnessed a rise in influenza A cases over the past two weeks, with an increasing number of patients relying on mechanical ventilation.

An annual programme to provide free medical examination, consultation, and medicine to people in the central province of Quang Ngai was kicked off on January 15.

The Vietnam–Malaysia Business Association (VMBIZ), with the support of the Business Association of Overseas Vietnamese (BAOOV), on January 15 held a ceremony to present a bronze bell to Ti-Ratana Heights pagoda in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The Ministry of Health has warned about a possibly wider monkeypox outbreak during the winter-spring period.

Approximately 100 defendants accused of carrying out the terrorist attacks in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak last June will be brought to court on January 16.

Up to 288 kilos of cocaine have been found drifting onto a beach in Binh Son District in the central province of Quang Ngai.

The World Bank Board of Directors has recently approved a water improvement project worth over US$300 million in the southern province of Binh Duong.

A fire in the early hours of Monday morning claimed the lives of four people including two adults and two children in Hoan Kiem, Hanoi.

The HCM City health sector has proposed a ban on the sale of drugs through social media platforms or livestreams in an effort to tackle the sale of counterfeit or substandard medicine, as well as medicine without documented origin.

Vietnamese airlines have added an additional 472 flights with over 92,000 seats on routes between Hanoi and HCM City to destinations with high reservation rates to meet the increasing travel demand during the Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet.

Police operating in Da Nang said that they have co-operated with their counterparts in HCM City and the southern province of Binh Duong to bust a major loan shark ring headed by a Chinese national, whilst also arresting a total of 192 suspects.

Experts say GRDP per capita of $45,000-46,000 is an ambitious plan and that Hanoi needs to have groundbreaking ideas to obtain the desired growth.

Recruiting doctors to work in commune health centres and district hospitals in mountainous regions has become more successful.

Surgeons of Hanoi-based Viet Duc Hospital performed simultaneous eight organ transplants in 24 hours, said by Associate Professor Nguyen Quang Nghia, Director of the the hospital’s Organ Transplant Center.

Despite Vietnamese carriers adding over 470 flights to meet the high demand for Lunar New Year holiday (Tet) air travel, tickets on many domestic flights have nearly sold out.

The Soc Son racecourse is expected to become an international sports centre and to host the Asiad or Olympics in the future.

Three Vietnamese students have become famous in the southern Finnish town of Sulkava as they have conquered taste buds of the Finnish people through delicious Vietnamese salt coffee, a treat originating from the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

Captain Đức managed to divert the Su-22 aircraft away from residential areas before safely parachuting out.