The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors on Thursday approved a US$80-million loan to help Vietnam improve the quality of basic health services and access to care, especially in disadvantaged areas.

The Ha Noi Electricity Corporation (EVN HANOI) has announced it will not cut or reduce the power supply in the city during the national high school examinations from June 22 to June 27.

The Ministry of Transport will add several regulations regarding the use of IT in managing and supervising automobile driver training centres to improve training quality.

Authorities in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang have announced that there has been serious erosion of the sea dikes in the Kim Quy-Tieu Dua area in the communes of Van Khanh and Van Khanh Tay, An Minh District.

The Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam on Wednesday awarded VND6.7 billion (US$290,000) in compensation to 83-year-old Tran Van Them, who was wrongly convicted of murder in 1973.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, people’s committees at all levels and other relevant agencies to review their land use starting on August 1, 2019.

Although the Thua Thien-Hue Province People’s Committee announced it had cracked down on illegal gold mining along the upper part of the Dakrong River in A Luoi District, the river water is still polluted, affecting people living downstream.

Electronic medical records for all Vietnamese citizens will be adopted nationwide next month, according to the Ministry of Health.

On June 17, doctors from Military Hospital 103 successfully conducted the hospital's 500th kidney transplant operation on a female patient from Nong Cong District, the north-central province of Thanh Hoa.

Ha Noi’s People’s Committee has asked authorised agencies and local authorities at the grass-roots levels to tighten inspection and demolish the areas being illegally used to store construction materials in the city.

The central province of Phu Yen on Monday reported its first outbreak of African swine fever in Eabar Commune, Song Hinh District, making it the 58th locality in Vietnam affected by the virus.

Illegal gold mining on Bo Tot Mountain in the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien has been posing a risk to public security since 2017.

The People’s Court in Binh Thanh District in HCM City yesterday sentenced Nguyen Thi Nga to three and a half years in prison for “violating regulations on road safety” which resulted in a car crash that killed one woman and injured six men.

Over 67,000 cases of dengue fever and three deaths were reported in the first five months of this year across the country, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Health.

Fishermen in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tien Giang have improved their working conditions and raised profits by using more advanced technologies.

The public health insurance fund paid more than half a million US dollars for treatment of just a single patient over three years.

The Ministry of Health has given sanction to the Hung Vuong General Hospital in HCM City to carry out surrogate pregnancies on humanitarian grounds, making it the country’s fourth public facility to be approved.

The central city of Da Nang has allocated 14 streets where parking is only allowed on odd or even dates in the downtown districts of Hai Chau, Thanh Khe, Cam Le, Son Tra and Ngu Hanh Son.

Two people died and at least eight others were injured in an explosion before dawn yesterday at a construction site on the Long Thanh golf course.

Diabetes, as a major public health issue, will be addressed across multiple fronts, from prevention and disease management to patient care and engagement, health experts have said.