The People’s Committee of Hanoi has a new goal for the school year of 2016-2017, targeting to equip all schools and educational facilities in the city with medical clinics that are of acceptable standards and meet emergency aid requirement, the Phap...
People who want to know their HIV status can now test themselves discreetly thanks to the HIV self-testing service that was launched in Vietnam for the first time on August 26th. A simple test kit allows the user to obtain the test result after 20...
China’s hydropower dams on the Upper Mekong River (Lancang in Chinese) are blocking waters from reaching Vietnam's Mekong Delta, Dao Trong Tu, said former vice general secretary of the Vietnam National Mekong Committee. Water has failed to arrive in...
Authorities of central province Ha Tinh on August 23 afternoon held a meeting with Taiwan’s Formosa Hung Nghiep Steel Company to discuss their shortcomings in waste disposal. At the moment, the Taiwanese-invested company has corrected 32/58 tasks...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc had reiterated not to barter environment for economic growth at a national online meeting on environmental protection held on Aug 24 after the country’s most serious environmental incident caused by Taiwan-...
Vietnam’s scientists have spotted a new group of critically endangered primates, a population of Delacour’s langurs, marking it as the world’s second largest population so far. Scientists from Fauna & Flora International (FFI) Vietnam saw a...
Vietnam’s Central Steering Committee on Natural Disaster Prevention and Control has reported that typhoon Dianmu left seven deaths, eight injured, and two missing when the storm flooded the northern region last weekend. The calamities were summed up...
The Vietnamese government announced at a conference with the participation of domestic and foreign scientists, universities scholars, and state officials that the water in sea off coastline in four central provinces is now safe after Taiwan-invested...
A land slide occurred at a gold mining quarry in Vietnam’s northern province of Lao Cai has killed at least seven people, local media reported. The accident happened last week, brought about by tropical storm Dianmu, local authorities said....
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed to grant work permits to foreign teachers, which allows them to teach in the public schools, state media reported. Accordingly, foreign teachers must have at least a degree in pedagogy or equivalent one, a...
