Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai has recently announced the second case of Zika infection, state media reported. The patient is a 51 year old man in Tan Bien Ward, Bien Hoa Town. Accordingly, health workers from the province’s Preventive...
Vietnam Health Environment Management Agency under the Ministry of Health on December 21 released the laboratory results of water suspected of heavy pollution and cancer-causing in 10 villages in 9 provinces across the country. Accordingly, the rate...
The Hanoi Department of Health has sent doctors, nurses and medical workers from central level hospitals to district level facilities to help share advanced professional techniques. The plan aims to shorten the professional capacity gap between...
Vietnam records 250-500 food poisoning cases every year with 7,000-10,000 people affected, according to Food Safety Department under the Health Ministry. Of the number, 200 people were killed by food poisoning. The figures were released at a...
Torrential rains and floods that have ravaged the central region since mid-October have caused 111 people to die or go missing and injured some 121 others, according to the Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control. The damages were...
Both domestic and foreign scientists have proved that there are many rare kinds of animals and plants found in Vietnam, including those listed in the endangered ranking by the world’s books. According to a newly-released report by the World Wildlife...
Vietnam is estimated to have 120 wild elephants and 45 domesticated ones, which are feared to disappear one day from the country without timely conservation action. As wild elephants in Vietnam are on the verge of extinction, the World Wide Fund for...
As many as 450,000 people in Vietnam’s central provinces have suffered from severe flooding which was triggered by strong rainfall and floods caused by water discharge from hydropower plants, foreign media reported, citing a report by the United...
Police in the central province of Ha Tinh said on December 23 they found a tiger carcass in a house of a local man. The 120kg dead tiger was stored in an ice box in the house belonging to Nguyen Van Thanh from the mountainous commune of Huong Son....
A survey jointly released by the Ministry of Education and Training and UNICEF has revealed that less than 20% of Vietnamese students always feel safe at school, state media reported. According to the survey, school violence is reported to be on the...
