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The General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health on November 3 sent a document to the Health Department of the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, asking it to step up monkeypox prevention and control.

After nearly a year of operation, Hanoi's first metro project, the Cat Linh - Ha Dong urban railway has welcomed more than 7.2 million passengers.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho will build an embankment to prevent erosion along the Tra Noc River in Binh Thuy district in 2023-25 at a cost of 270 billion VND (10.9 million USD).

The planning of fishing ports will be a fulcrum for the sustainable development of the fisheries sector, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien has said.

All relic sites and tourist attractions in Vietnam will be included in a digital map, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism (MCST).

The housing area per capita in Vietnam currently stands at 25.5 sq.m, 0.5 sq.m higher than that in 2021, according to the Ministry of Construction.

The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) is striving to raise the number of people covered by health insurance to 91.05 million, or 92% of the national population, by the end of this year.

Labour federations across the country will spend about 500 billion VND (over 20.1 million USD) on organising activities and presenting gifts to labourers on the occasion of the upcoming lunar New Year (Tet).

Authorised agencies and the Border Guard of the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang are taking concerted measures to prevent local fishermen from engaging in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

At a resettlement area in Phu Luu commune in Ham Yen district of the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang, spacious houses were built close to each other connected by paved roads and alleys.

On October 25, the Provincial People's Committee held a signing ceremony of cooperation agreement between Long An Department of Health and Wonkwang University Hospital.

The management board of Hon Ba Nature Reserve in Khanh Hoa recently announced that it has discovered a species of mountain turtle which is listed among the wild animals threatened with extinction.