General News

  • Vietnam’s Dong Do Hospital has signed a memorandum of understanding with Singapore’s Vascular Interventional Center (VIC) on enhancing diagnostic and treatment capabilities for vascular diseases and providing advanced and effective endovascular...
    Monday, 18th March, 2024
  • Vietnam recorded 22 rabies deaths in the first two months of this year, doubling year on year, the Ministry of Health’s General Department of Preventive Medicine announced on March 13. During the two-month period, the Central Highlands region...
    Monday, 18th March, 2024
  • Chairman of Vietnam’s law-making National Assembly (NA) Vuong Dinh Hue has said that environmental pollution is a pressing problem in Hanoi, which is considered amazing in the eyes of many foreigners, except for its air quality. NA Chairman Hue made...
    Monday, 18th March, 2024
  • Climate change, sea level rise, saltwater intrusion and unsustainable water use fuel the water scarcity risks in Vietnam. That was the remark made by Tong Ngoc Thanh, director general of the National Centre for Water Resources Planning and...
    Monday, 18th March, 2024
  • Vietnam aims to construct 98 more automatic air quality monitoring stations from now until 2030, raising the total number of stations across the country to 201, according to the government’s recently-issued national planning for environmental...
    Monday, 18th March, 2024
  • Vietnam has been adopting solutions, including perfecting the legal framework, to enhance comprehensive actions at all levels to reverse the trend of biodiversity degradation, local media reported. Competent authorities in Vietnam are urgently...
    Monday, 18th March, 2024
  • Vietnam will strengthen actions to control and reduce plastic waste following an implementation plan on the National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) and promote participation in international forums on the issue, according to a document approved...
    Monday, 18th March, 2024
  • Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha received Canadian Ambassador for Climate Change Catherine Stewart and Canadian Ambassador to Vietnam Shawn Perry Steil in Hanoi on March 14 to promote cooperation between the two countries in climate...
    Monday, 18th March, 2024
  • Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s largest city, is prioritizing land fund solutions, capital allocation, and investment attraction to construct an additional 4,500 classrooms by 2025, aiming to achieve a ratio of 300 classrooms per 10,000 school-aged...
    Monday, 18th March, 2024
  • The Project Management Board of the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has announced the winning contractor for a VND180.05 billion ($7.3 million) tender package aimed at constructing an education sector database and implementing e...
    Monday, 18th March, 2024