State utility Vietnam Electricity (EVN), the country’s sole power distributor, will be allowed to borrow soft loans from Russia and Japan to build nuclear power plants in Vietnam’s central province of Ninh Thuan, state media reported. EVN will build...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health and World Bank officials on August 25 worked with authorities in the central province of Quang Ngai on a project to build a medical waste treatment plant costing VND123 billion ($5.45 million) in the locality. Quang Ngai...
Vietnamese doctors have successfully performed two operations on a baby born with her heart outside her chest, a rare case in the world and the first of its kind in Vietnam. Dr. Nguyen Hoang Dinh, head of the Cardiovascular Operation Department at...
Most Vietnamese people don't pay attention to nutrition, says Nguyen Thi Lam, the deputy director of the National Institute of Nutrition. Nutrition awareness was lacking among people with low incomes and those who were better off, the rich often ate...
Up to 42.5% of Vietnamese in a survey conducted by the World Bank (WB) in four provinces in 2014 and 2015 said that they were not satisfied with the attitude of doctors while the majority of respondents were displeased at the poor bathroom hygiene,...
The World Health Organization estimates that deaths from non-communicable diseases reach nearly 380,000 cases per year in Vietnam, claiming 73 percent of all deaths and reducing Vietnamese people's average longevity, reported Vietnamese non-...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi are preparing for construction of a water pipeline to ease the shortage of water that has troubled the life of roughly 70,000 households in scorching weather. In October, the city will build the...
A total of 63 pangolins have been rescued, a majority of them seized from illegal traders in northern Vietnam in August. Their rescue is the result of the Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program (CPCP), a cooperation between the national not for...
Nearly eight tonnes of smuggled ivory, rhino horns and pangolin scales were discovered after a two-week investigation, deputy head of the central region's anti-smuggling team Pham Van Thien said August 27. He told Vietnam News the investigation was...
Heavy rains are forecast to occur in vast areas in the northern and central Vietnam from August 28 to September 3, said the Central Hydrometeorology Center on August 28. From August 28-30, the north will have medium and heavy rains, with the...
