UN organisations will assist Vietnam in improving its national system for child protection and changing social attitudes towards violence against children, following the One UN Strategic Plan for 2017-2021. Marta Santos Pais, Special Representative...
As many as 2,000 additional five-in-one Pentaxim vaccine doses will be made available to children aged under two in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, state media reported. Children born between June 22, 2014, and April 22, 2016, and have not been...
Up to 872 cases of dengue fever, including one death, have been reported in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre over the last six months, tripling those in the same period last year, state media reported. According to Vice Director of the...
All rural residents across the nation will get at least 60 litres of clean water each per day by 2020 under the National Target Program for Rural Water and Sanitation, Director of the National Centre for Clean Water and Rural Environment Sanitation...
Many Vietnamese companies and foreign enterprises have jointly established farms to produce safe agricultural products for domestic consumption and export, state media reported. The U.S.-based Registrar Corp said it had joined hands with 400...
A court in Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City has issued a five-year jail term to a Vietnamese wildlife trafficker who posted for sale on his Facebook account some wild animals, according to the Tuoi Tre newspaper. Tan Binh People’s...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has affirmed a ban on logging off natural forests to protect more than 2.25 million hectares of natural forests in the Central Highlands regardless of licensed projects. Closing natural forests must be done...
The Mekong Delta, the biggest agricultural areas in Vietnam, has incurred losses of nearly VND4.73 trillion ($212.06 million) due to the long-lasting drought and salinization which started in November last year. Specifically, saltwater intrusion and...
A workshop was held in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai on June 23 to intensify communication calling for people to stop using products from endangered and rare animals and plants. The event was jointly organized by the Party Central...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training has asked universities and institutes for Doctorate degree certification for a strict review of their syllabuses, state media reported. The ministry review will assess the quality of Doctorate-degree...
