Chairman of the People’s Committee of Hanoi Nguyen Duc Chung held a working session in Hanoi on March 2 with Sugi Ryotaro, the Vietnam-Japan Special Ambassador, discussing natural calamity prevention and firefighting. The Ambassador said Japan is...
The National Cancer Hospital in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi has opened a 240-bed low-cost hostel for its patients and their family members at its Tan Trieu branch, local media reported. The facility aims to provide comfortable accommodation for...
The Hanoi-based Bach Mai Hospital has officially used robot in nerve and knee joint replacement surgeries, local media reported. This is the first time a hospital in Vietnam has used robot in brain and nerve operation contributing to boost the...
The percentage of Vietnamese citizens with health care insurance has risen dramatically, reaching 81.7% as of last year thanks to new regulations in the Health Insurance Law, said Minister of Heath Nguyen Thi Kim Tien. “This proves that the legal...
Representatives from Japan’s Kobelco Corporation expressed their desire to invest in the Nhon Trach 2 water supply plant project in the southern province of Dong Nai at a working session with local authorities on March 1. They said besides...
Health authorities in Hanoi have urged an investigation into a locally-brewed spirit containing high levels of methanol which have caused a rash of poisoning cases. On March 2, the Steering Committee for Food Safety and Hygiene of Hanoi had held an...
The central province of Quang Nam was hit by two earthquakes measuring between 3.2 and 3.9 on the Richter scale on Sunday morning (Feb 26), according to a statement by the Institute of Geophysics. The first one, measured at 3.9 degree on the Richter...
A flock of 18 red-headed cranes has recently returned to Phu My Reserve in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang, according to Nguyen Phong Van, director of the reserve. The red-headed cranes were spotted on February 25 at the reserve, which...
The area of forest illegally logged in Vietnam in the first two months this year rose 13.9% to 37.7 hectares from a year earlier, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said in the February report. Forest fires destroyed 66.3 hectares of...
Ambassador Nguyen Phuong Nga, head of the Permanent Vietnam Mission to the United Nations proposed five proposals to eradicate wildlife trade during an event on the sidelines of a ceremony marking UN World Wildlife Day (March 3). Nga suggested...
