The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on November 29 held a press conference on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Vietnam, state media reported. According to WHO, AMR in Vietnam...
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has urged for more efforts to end the HIV/AIDS epidemics by 2030, affirming that HIV/AIDS fight is among the top priorities of the government, state media reported. He asked for closer coordination among agencies...
Located on the lower course of large rivers, Vietnam’s water resources are facing challenges as countries in the upper streams are building giant hydropower plants, according to Dr. Dao Trong Tu, a renowned expert on river networks. As much as 63%...
State media has reported that massive fish deaths have been recorded along the coastline in Vietnam’s central province of Khanh Hoa over the weekend, leaving dumps onshore equality to more than 10 tons in total. The incident was reported from Nov 24...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan to spend VND115 billion ($50.7 million) on disaster relief in 10 provinces which have suffered damages caused by floods and storms so far this year. The money will help the flood-hit...
Statistics by Vietnam’s Ministry of Labor, Invalid and Social Affairs (MoLISA) showed that roughly 13.5 million people or 15% of the country’s total population suffer from 10 common mental disorders. Among them, some 200,000 Vietnamese people suffer...
Cold spells are set to hit northern provinces over the next ten days while central Vietnam braces for flooding and landslides. The north of the country will experience 4-5 cold spells over the course of December, according to the National...
Floods caused by heavy overnight rain hit parts of the Central Region of Vietnam, leaving four people confirmed dead, another one missing with an additional five serious injuries, authorities said on December 2. The Steering Committee for Disaster...
The Vietnam-Japan University (VJU) last week held a workshop in Tokyo to recruit local students with participation from the management board of the University, scholars, experts, and crowds of students, state media reported. The workshop aimed to...
Vietnamese students have won the third prize in the International World Robot Olympiad (WRO) final which took place in India’s capital city of New Delhi, state media reported. The theme of this year was to reduce, recycle and manage waste....
