The Ministry of Health sought to expand the family doctor model across the country during a video conference in Hanoi on July 15. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam hailed the model as a good idea that has worked well around the world; however, it has...
More than 80 local and international experts are gathering in Hanoi from July 12th-15th to share their lessons about water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) projects being delivered in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar and Timor-Leste. This...
Nearly a half of the Mekong Delta region would be badly hit by saltwater intrusion within the next 14 years, said the Ministry of Planning and Investment at a meeting of the South West Steering Committee on July 11. According to the report, the...
The Vietnamese office of the World Wildlife Fund has launched a campaign to increase commitment from both the public and private sectors in the conservation of saola, one of the world’s most endangered mammals. The “Save Saola” campaign was kicked...
Vietnam will grant no investment license to any project that fail to meet environmental protection requirements, the government said on its website. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE) needs to cooperate with related agencies...
Taiwanese Formosa Hung Nghiep Ha Tinh Steel Co., Ltd, located in Vietnam’s central province of Ha Tinh, is deep in troubles concerning its industrial waste discharge in the locality after many communes and districts found illegal waste dumping from...
The environmental pollution caused by Taiwan-invested Formosa Hung Nghiep Ha Tinh Steel Corporation has caused would result in shocks to Vietnam’s economy, said Nguyen Duc Thanh, head of the Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR)...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will hold the 27th International Biology Olympiad (IBO) from July 17-23, will the record number of students at an IBO, state media reported. The Olympiad will see 264 students from 68 delegations competing. The three...
Deputy director of the National Institute of Education Management Nguyen Manh Hung has proposed to reassess educational and school management ability of over 120,000 officials in the national education system and public and non-public schools. He...
It was on August 10, 1961, fifty-five years ago, that the US military first sprayed Agent Orange in Vietnam, the defoliant containing the toxic chemical dioxin that has resulted in the deaths of millions of Vietnamese people. Millions more continue...
