As many as 12 out of 16 COVID-19 patients admitted at the Tropical Diseases Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City in December were infected with the JN.1 variant, marking the first time that Vietnam has identified the presence of this variant, local media...
On January 23, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha approved the National Strategy for Protecting, Caring, and Enhancing People's Health for the period up to 2030, with a vision to 2045, local media reported.
The goal of the Strategy is to...
Ten conservation areas in Vietnam have participated in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas (IUCN Green List), which is a set of global standards for successful conservation,...
The Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA) Vietnam program has selected 11 innovative low-carbon projects in the country for its second phase, local media reported.
The projects cover various sectors such as clean energy and energy transition; electric...
The southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City could lose $50 million each year due to climate change, said World Bank (WB)’s Country Director in Vietnam Carolyn Turk.
Ms. Turk gave the information at an investment promotion conference for green growth...
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang once again stressed the absolute point of view of no subjectivity in natural disaster prevention and control as the weather situation is forecast to continue experiencing abnormal changes.
Chairing a...
Dr. Kambiz Ghawami, president of the World University Support Organization in Germany, has expressed optimism about the prospects of Vietnam-Germany cooperation in education in an interview with Vietnam News Agency ahead of the Vietnam trip by...
Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City wants to become an advanced and integrated education hub for Asia under its education development strategy for until 2030.
The strategy, announced by the municipal People's Committee on January 18...
Over the 20 years of its development, the Vietnam Association for Victims of Agent Orange (VAVA) has obtained remarkable achievements in the effort to support Agent Orange (AO) victims.
From 1961 to 1971, the US army sprayed more than 80 million...
Representatives from Project RENEW and Quang Ngai Red Cross this week delivered brand-new school bags that carry UXO safety messages to 800 schoolchildren in Quang Ngai Province, home of the My Lai massacre in 1968.
450 girls and 350 boys in five...
