Local authorities in Dien Chau District in the central province of Nghe An have stepped up efforts to prevent dengue fever from spreading in Dien Thinh Commune further after recent breakout of the disease in the locality, state media reported. About...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health confirmed last week that two more women had tested positive for Zika, the fourth and fifth native cases infected with the mosquito-borne virus in the country since April this year, state media reported. The two female...
Vietnam in recent years have recorded a surge in the number of people admitted with heart disease, said Chairman Nguyen Lan Viet of the Vietnam Heart Association Professor at a national convention on October 10 in Hanoi. Accordingly, one or two out...
The Institute of Material Science under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology on October announced that it has successfully created Nano FGC complex, state media reported. Nano FGC complex is a new material to produce medicine for cancer...
A wastewater treatment project costing $800 million has been kicked off construction in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, which is expected the biggest of its kind in the Southeast Asian country. The project, which 85% of its capital coming from...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has called on Laos to enhance coordination to work together and with international organizations to tap the water resources in a sustainable manner. Mr. Dam made this call at a meeting with Lao Prime...
Vietnam authorities have advanced VND3 trillion (around $134 million) out of $500 million in the compensation Formosa paid for its pollution in central region to four provinces affected by the event, state media reported citing representative of the...
A court in Vietnam’s central province of Ha Tinh has rejected 506 petitions which local people filed to ask Taiwan-invested Formosa Hung Nghiep Ha Tinh Steel Corp to compensate for damages they have been suffering, state media reported, citing a...
Vietnam’s energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions rise by an average 10% annually due to rising demand for energy which grows between 12% and 15% yearly, according to the Economist Corporate Network (ECN), the Economist Group’s advisory...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Vietnam on Oct 11 held a seminar on green growth policy, state media reported. The high-level event, entitled "Vietnam Green Growth Strategy: Pathways...
