Hanoi is planning to provide free rector cancer screening for people over 40 once a year, according to chairman of city’s People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung. Mr. Chung made the proposal in a working session on health with Deputy Prime Minister Vu...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health will release 1 million to 1.4 million of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes in four wards in Nha Trang city, the central province of Khanh Hoa in an effort to reduce the number of incidences of dengue fever and Zika virus...
The Preventive Medicine Department under the Ministry of Health said it will increase preventative measures, including the monitoring of those who come to and return from African and Latin American countries, where yellow fever outbreaks are...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has asked authorities in 38 provinces and cities to enhance operations of local water reservoirs to store water to deal with droughts this year. The provinces and cities consist of Bien Bien,...
Water pumping stations in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta provide more than 985,000 cubic meters daily to urban areas, meeting 89% of the need, the Ministry of Construction has said. Of this, around 650,000 cu.m come from the Tien and Hau rivers and the...
Vietnam expects to launch LOTUSat-1 in 2019 and LOTUSat-2 in 2022, the satellites with radar technology that will observe the earth and in charge of managing natural resources and environment. LOTUSat-1 and LOTUSat-2 are important components of the...
More than 50 serious pollution cases were discovered in 2016, including the mass fish deaths in four provinces of Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri and Thua Thien-Hue in the central region. Seven ministries and more than 100 Vietnamese and foreign...
All Vietnam’s state governing bodies in education and training and all other educational institutions are expected to perform administrative activities online, according to a recent scheme ratified by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. Of the number,...
Vietnam’s Thua Thien-Hue Provincial Department of Education and Training on February 9 held a conference on school violence, local media reported. According to the delegations, more pupils, especially female pupils, are fighting each other or...
Central Highlands provinces are focusing on providing production land, residential land and safe water supply to poor ethnic minority people who lack residential and production land, contributing to stabilizing production and gradually improving...
