A World Bank-funded project has improved capacity of agricultural cooperatives in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang and helped change the farming practices of local farmers, state media has reported. According to Le Huu Minh from the...
The National Television Channel on May 2 highlighted the first achievement in Vietnam’s research on stem cell for medical application. The government licensed a national-level research project on this topic 10 years ago, which has attracted many...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has recently issued Certificate of Free Sale for the combined vaccine against measles-rubella, which will be mass produced by the Center for Research and Production of Vaccines and Biology (POLYVAC) for the first...
A batch of used computerized tomography scan machines was discovered at the Tan Son Nhat Airport in HCM City on May 2. An attempt was being made to transport the machines into Cambodia. According to the airport’s customs office, the machines were...
Nineteen Zika virus cases have been reported in HCM City since the beginning of the year, according to the city Preventive Health Centre. Since April 2016, when the first case was reported, 210 people in the city have tested positive for the Zika...
Only a third of water supply systems in Vietnam work effectively while 16.7% of facilities have poor operations, state media reported, citing the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Water Resources Directorate. North central region tops...
Climate change has a huge impact on HCM City’s water resources, the head of its public water utility has warned. “Climate change, especially drought and saltwater intrusion [into rivers], has directly affected the Dong Nai and Saigon Rivers, making...
The People’s Committee in the central province of Thanh Hoa has given the nod to the locally-based Nghi Son Refinery & Petrochemical Limited Liability Company (NSRP) to discharge its treated wastewater into the coastal sea area from May 1, 2017...
Vietnam expects to raise the forest coverage to 45% by 2030 from 42% in 2020 with the aim to cut as much as 25% of greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030, state media reported, citing the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Raising forest...
El Nino, which is forecast to last until the end of 2017, will cause drought and salinity intrusion in many areas of the country during the dry season, said Le Thanh Hai, Deputy General Director of the National Hydro-Meteorological Centre on May 3....
