Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project on improving public capacity in controlling HIV in the southern region that will receive $2.1 million from a non-refundable aid provided by the United States Agency for International...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) wishes to provide support to Vietnam’s agricul sector to build clean agricultural value chains, according to Mr. Hiroyuki Sakuma, Project Advisor of the Technical Cooperation Project on Development...
A human milk bank, the first of its kind in Vietnam, is made debut on Feb 17 at Danang Hospital for Women and Children located in the central coastal city of Danang thanks for the support of some foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The...
A multimillion-dollar thermal power plant in Vietnam that received insurance from Japan’s official export credit agency Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) has generated one billion kWh of electricity as of mid-February. The good...
Vietnam records 1,000 cases of viral encephalitis annually and Japan encephalitis accounts for 10%, of which most of the cases are recorded in northern Vietnam, according to a recent conference. Japanese encephalitis is a type of viral brain...
Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai has recorded the first case of totally drug-resistant tuberculosis, according to the provincial Lung Hospital. The 62-year-old patient is from Bien Hoa city. He was hospitalized in September 2015 for treatment...
Although the number of Zika virus infection cases have dropped, the disease could break out on a large scale if no preventive plan was implemented since the beginning of the year, said a health expert. Associate Prof. Dr. Phan Trong Lan, Director of...
Vietnamese doctors are going to perform the country’s first lung transplant on a 6-year-old boy later this month, with help from Japanese colleagues. A team of about 30 people, including surgeons and anesthesiologists, will perform the operation at...
Vietnam reported 13 new Zika cases, this year, raising total infections of the mosquito-borne virus to 233 since last summer with nearly 90% of the patients living in Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City alone reported 207 cases (including the country...
Practical and specific measures are needed instead of general and vague directions from authorities to ensure clean production and food safety. The statement was made by National Assembly Vice Chairman Phung Quoc Hien during a meeting held by the...
