95-year-old Vietnamese patient survives rare gallbladder torsion and necrosis

Bong Son Regional General Hospital has accelerated the adoption of advanced surgical and diagnostic techniques in 2025, significantly improving treatment outcomes and meeting rising healthcare demand, hospital leaders said.

The Secretary of the Party Committee of Dien Hong Ward, Đoàn Hữu Dũng, on January 27 visited a family in particularly difficult circumstances, offering encouragement and financial assistance as local authorities pledged continued support.

Demand for Tet (Lunar New Year) 2026 gift baskets is rising across Việt Nam, with retailers reporting strong orders from corporate and individual buyers amid ongoing economic uncertainty.

Pham Thi Tam Anh, a 12th-grade English major at Hung Vuong High School for the Gifted in Gia Lai province, has won a consolation prize in Literature at the 2025–2026 National Excellent Student Competition, marking her third consecutive year on Vietnam’s national honor roll for the subject.

Nhon Chau island commune in Vietnam is set to receive an additional passenger ferry after the Nhon Chau 05 vessel completed its legal procedures and technical upgrades, local authorities confirmed.

Gia Lai province is accelerating safe vegetable production to secure supplies for the Lunar New Year (Tet), as farmers recover from late-2025 floods and respond to rising consumer demand for high-quality, clean produce.

Quy Nhon University on January 22 convened a high-level discussion on adopting English as a second language across its academic programmes, bringing together university leaders, lecturers, students and senior specialists from the University of New South Wales (Australia).

Young members of the Communist Party are taking on expanded responsibilities at the grassroots level, spearheading legal education, community support and cultural preservation initiatives across several localities, according to local Youth Union officials.

Gia Lai Province’s Vice Chairman Lâm Hải Giang on January 21 urged contractors and relevant agencies to accelerate construction of a multi-level boarding school project spanning seven border communes, insisting the work must be completed by July 30.

Pleiku Ward in Vietnam’s Gia Lai Province on January 20 launched its annual competition to select outstanding lower secondary school homeroom teachers for the 2025–2026 academic year.

Women’s Union chapters across Gia Lai have rolled out a series of environmental, social welfare and community-building activities in recent days to mark the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, creating a province-wide emulation movement among members and local women.

Quy Nhon University’s Institute of Applied Science and Technology on January 16 signed a contract to transfer food-production technology to the Nem Chả Cô Út household business in Gia Lai Province, marking a five-month collaboration aimed at modernizing the facility’s giò chả and nem production.

Gia Lai province has rolled out a broad package of grassroots healthcare measures under Project 7, a 2021–2025 initiative aimed at improving physical fitness and stature among ethnic minorities while preventing child malnutrition, local health officials said.

Spas and beauty clinics across central Vietnam are reporting a sharp rise in customers as women accelerate skincare and cosmetic treatments ahead of the Lunar New Year. Many facilities in Pleiku, Quy Nhon and nearby areas are extending opening hours and requiring advance bookings to meet demand.

The Quy Nhon Youth Club has begun providing home-based tutoring and financial support to disadvantaged children in Quy Nhon Ward, offering targeted assistance to families facing severe hardship.

More than 1,300 12th-grade students from Vietnam’s Gia Lai province participated in a technology project experience event on January 18 at FPT University’s Quy Nhon campus, where they explored student-developed innovations and learned about career pathways in the digital era.

A seminar aimed at improving mathematics teaching competencies for secondary school educators was held on January 18 at Asia Pacific International School Gia Lai (APC Gia Lai), bringing together more than 100 teachers from across the province.

Gladiolus growers in western Gia Lai are growing increasingly anxious as prolonged cold weather threatens to delay flowering just weeks before the Lunar New Year, a critical sales period for the ornamental crop.

Gia Lai province is intensifying efforts to send local workers abroad under contract, aiming to improve employment, raise incomes and enhance workforce quality, as it targets dispatching about 2,000 workers overseas in 2026.

More than 250 students from Quy Nhon University defended their graduation projects over two days this week, as the institution linked final-year engineering talent with major businesses seeking new recruits.

Residents in storm- and flood-affected areas of central Vietnam are moving into newly built homes as the Lunar New Year approaches, following weeks of intensive construction led by military units working through holidays and Tet to meet tight deadlines.

The provincial Traffic Police Division has cleared major bottlenecks in driver’s licence testing and issuance by streamlining procedures, expanding exam schedules and accelerating digital transformation, helping safeguard road safety and citizens’ rights.

More than 4,000 high school students in Gia Lai province took part in a university admissions and career counseling programme for the 2026 intake, held on January 11 at Hung Vuong High School for the Gifted in Dien Hong Ward.

A science centre in Vietnam’s Central Highlands has launched a trial of a locally designed wind tunnel model, giving visitors a rare, hands-on view of the aerodynamic principles underpinning modern aerospace technology.