Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has okayed to extend a power transmission project receiving financial support from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) by one year and a half to four years and a half. The extension aims to boost the...
Vietnam saw a sudden rise in the number of autism patients, which rose by as much as 50 times between 2000 and 2007 and reached more than 200,000 currently, state media reported, adding that the number could be 500,000 according to criteria by the...
Singapore’s Parkway Cancer Center over the weekend held a counselling workshop on targeted therapy and immunotherapy for cancer patients, introducing a way to detect cancerous cells more effectively and promising new hope for patients, state media...
Supermarkets and other business establishments in Vietnam will be allowed to sell some medicines on the restricted list starting on January 1 next year, state media reported citing the Pharmacy Law. The information was announced in the meeting of...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has called for action to halt the rise of diabetes and improve care for people suffering from the disease at a workshop held on Apr 6 in Hanoi, state media reported. The workshop is organized on the occasion of World...
The water discharged from China’s Jinghong Hydropower Station to the lower reaches of the Mekong River is expected to arrive in Vietnam from April 4, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment’s Water Resources Management...
The first waste water treatment system using reeds in Vietnam has been successfully developed at Nhan Ai hospital in Bu Gia Map district of southern Binh Phuoc province. Next to the hospital’s Internal Medicine Department, eight reed beds, each 8...
The VTV24 News Center of the Vietnam Television (VTV) station has announced a new program called “Noi khong voi thuc pham ban” (say no to unsafe food) in a bid to raise public awareness of food safety. Launched on VTV24 Channel from April 1, the...
Authorities in Vietnam’s central province of Binh Thuan have called for the government’s help to cope with pollution caused by a thermal power project which was built by China’s Shanghai Electric Group (SEC) under the engineering-procurement-...
The ongoing severe drought has caused damaged of over VND1.11 trillion ($49 million) for Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, state media has reported. The drought has severely affected 36,961 hectares of crop and livelihood of 21,000...
