JICA, Ministry of Health and Viet Nam Social Security yesterday signed a record on the discussions of a project to improve the management of health insurance payment in Viet Nam.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has decided to establish a State Appraisal Council to appraise the first phase of HCM City’s metro line No 5 between Sai Gon Bridge in Binh Thanh District and District 8 and report to the Government.

Public hospitals in HCM City which do not receive city funds for regular expenditures will increase fees for non-insured patients by 30 per cent from August 1, according to the city’s Department of Health. 

 The Ministry of Health has instructed health departments nationwide to strictly inspect private health clinics to ensure they are offering safe and high quality treatment.

 The implementation of regulations related to food advertisement has improved, but managing advertising on social networks like Facebook and YouTube has faced a number of difficulties.

 The Indonesian national team secured a berth in the semi-finals of the annual VTV International Women’s Volleyball Cup, on July 11, in Hai Duong City.

 This year’s international Golden Paddle table tennis tournament promises many surprises, according to organisers.

 The Government has green lighted the 1,000-bed Tien Giang General Hospital in the Mekong Delta city of My Tho.

 Hotel investors continued to seek alternative opportunistic investments in the emerging tourism market of Vietnam during the first half of 2017, says real estate consultancy JLL.

 Consumer lending in Vietnam has prospered in recent years thanks, in large part, to the lending expertise of foreign firms, which has helped to propel the sector closer to its full potential.

 Four Vietnamese sailors on board a Taiwanese fishing vessel that sank near South Africa several days ago have been saved, the Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre reported on July 11.

Vietnam wants to enhance all-around cooperation with the Netherlands, especially in climate change adaptation, water management, high-tech and sustainable agriculture, oil and gas industry, logistics and seaport services.

 Torrential rains and landslides in recent days in northern mountainous provinces of Ha Giang, Lao Cai, Lai Chau, Dien Bien, Cao Bang, Bac Kan, Thai Nguyen and Hoa Binh have claimed 12 lives and left one missing.

 More than half of processing and manufacturing companies expect better business performance in Q3, according to a survey conducted by the General Statistics Office (GSO).

 Vietnamese localities attach importance to economic and trade ties with the US, considering cooperation an important resource for industrialisation and modernisation, said a Hanoi official. 

 The Vietnamese Government will create the most possible conditions for investors from the Netherlands to do business in Vietnam, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 N.C.T, a 32-year-old man, and his partner, a 38-year-old man, are waiting at the District 11 Preventive Medicine Centre to receive free antiretroviral drugs.

 Indexes for 2017 second quarter reflected Vietnam’s increasing dependence on FDI), said the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR) in its recent report on the performance of the economy in the quarter.

 Representatives from 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) member countries are expected to meet in Hakone town, west of Tokyo, Japan on July 12.

 Vietnam has surpassed Malaysia to become a bigger source of earnings for Japanese firms, according to the Bank of Japan (BoJ).