Vietnam’s Binh Phuoc on November 1 announced that the province had eliminated an outbreak of diphtheria on the district-level. On June 22, the outbreak was first reported in Thuan Loi and Thuan Phu communes of Dong Phu district. The disease claimed...
Vietnam’s central city of Danang city has been taking measures to fight dengue fever as infections are rising rapidly. Danang’s preventive medicine center reported that the city has so far this year recorded 3,183 cases of dengue fever, 709 more...
There are signs of the virus spreading rapidly across the city of 12 million people. Ho Chi Minh City reported nine more cases of the Zika virus on Nov 3, raising the total infections in the city to 30 and in Vietnam to 39. The health department...
The Department of Health of the southern province of Binh Duong on November 3 reported the second Zika infected case in the locality. A 20-year-old woman residing in Di An commune tested positive to the mosquito-borne virus after showing symptoms of...
Dozens of workers at the company also fell sick in a similar case five months ago. Health officials in Ho Chi Minh City are taking food samples from a Chinese-owned garment company to investigate a mass poisoning case that happened on Saturday. The...
More people living in Mekong delta provinces in Vietnam have moved to other regions, especially to the southeast which is home to the country’s most dynamic economic hub – Ho Chi Minh City. Statistics by the Southern Institute of Social Sciences...
Vietnam’s Mekong delta provinces find it hard to choose either to promote the paddy and fruit granaries or to develop thermal power projects which will pose negative impacts on the environment. Authorities in Can Tho, Tra Vinh, Soc Trang, Long An,...
Customs officers in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City have detected and seized nearly 500 kilograms of elephant tusks hidden in two timber containers imported from Africa, the fourth ivory smuggling cases to be unearthed in the...
Seven more locals went missing in the central province of Phu Yen due to floods caused by heavy rains over the past few days, raising the number of missing victims in the region to eight, according to initial reports. Quang Binh province reported...
Vietnam and EU on November 3 held a higher education forum, which was expected to boost the educational cooperation between the Southeast Asian country and the European nations, state media reported. The forum aims to help universities, educational...
