In a ceremony to honor good ethnic minority students in the presidency palace in Hanoi, Vietnamese State President Tran Dai Quang urged the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs, the Ministry of Education and training, relevant ministries and local...
Somewhere in a village in the central province of Quang Tri, a muffled yet powerful explosion erupts, followed immediately by another, shaking the ground beneath us. Sparks shower from the treetops like arrows aimed at the sky, then a black plume of...
The Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients on October 22 organised free-of-charge operations for 200 poor patients suffering from cataract at the Nguyen Trai Hospital and celebrated the 500,000th case in the past 20 years. Most of...
High levels of child marriage threaten Vietnam's society as a whole, said Nguyen Viet Tien, Deputy Minister of Health during a conference on October 25. Vietnam’s Law on Marriage and Family sets the minimum legal age for marriage at 18 for women and...
Due to historical circumstances, many M’nong people in Dak Nong province only have their first name in legal documents because they do not know their surnames. Females and males are distinguished by middle names such as Y, Dieu, K, H, or Thi, thus M...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has given the green light to a Japanese-funded medical project on the detection and treatment of pneumonia among children. The five-year project will begin in 2017, under a non-refundable grant from the...
The Women’s Entrepreneurial Centers of Resources, Education, Access, and Training for Economic Empowerment (WECREATE), an initiative of the U.S. Department of State, has been opened in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi. The development of the WECREATE...
A group of experts from the World Bank (WB) have worked with authorities in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City to help the locality develop solar energy in the 2017-2018 period amid rising demand for power in the 10-million city. The bank will help the city...
Ho Chi Minh City’s Health Department has recently launched 15 more spots for screening and detecting Zika virus infections in the context of increasing number of infections in the city, state media reported. As a result, the city now has 45...
The inorganic arsenic content in 247 tested fish sauce sample is within the permitted levels, said Vietnam’s Ministry of Health. The 247 fish sauce samples were taken from 82 traditional and industrial brands, in five cities and provinces: Hanoi and...
