General News

  • Over 1.5% of Vietnam's population participated in blood donation and 99% of the total 1.5 million blood units received in the country came from voluntary blood donors in 2023, health officials at a conference to review blood donation in Hanoi on...
    Monday, 22nd January, 2024
  • The Health Department in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City has asked pharmaceutical businesses not to sell products over social media platforms or livestreams, local media cited the latest information from a press conference about...
    Monday, 22nd January, 2024
  • The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has urged localities to monitor and promptly detect respiratory transmission cases at border checkpoints due to the continuous changes in the new variants of SARS-CoV-2, according to the latest Directive from the...
    Monday, 22nd January, 2024
  • Vietnamese Deputy Health Minister Le Duc Luan and UNDP Resident Representative in Vietnam Ramla Khalidi discussed measures to promote cooperation at a meeting in Hanoi on January 15, local media reported. During the talks, both sides talked about...
    Monday, 22nd January, 2024
  • The Department of Health in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City recorded over 12,500 pieces of negative feedback at public hospitals last year, with a significant focus on registration services and restroom conditions, local media reported. The discontent...
    Monday, 22nd January, 2024
  • Vietnam, with a population of approximately 100 million, reported only about ten cases of brain death and organ donation per year, equivalent to a rate of 0.1 per million people, the lowest in the world, said Professor Dr. Dong Van He, director of...
    Monday, 22nd January, 2024
  • Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh issued official dispatch 04/CD-TTg on January 15 to request relevant ministries and localities to actively implement work to respond to the risks of drought, water shortage, and saltwater intrusion in the...
    Monday, 22nd January, 2024
  • The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has proposed that preschools, kindergartens, and elementary schools consider allowing students to take break if the air quality index remains hazardous for three consecutive days, local media reported. This...
    Monday, 22nd January, 2024
  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) has said it will step up digital transformation and maintain the operation of the online surveillance system over water exploitation and use for about 600 works licensed by it in 2024....
    Monday, 22nd January, 2024
  • Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Le Cong Thanh and State Minister of the Environment Yagi Tetsuya co-chaired the eighth Vietnam - Japan environmental policy dialogue in a hybrid format on January 12, local media reported....
    Monday, 22nd January, 2024