Gu Bla, one of the main sculptural works used in the Cor ethnic group’s buffalo sacrifice festival in Tra Bong district in the central province of Quang Ngai, is slowly being forgotten as the festival’s popularity decreases. Gu Bla consists of Gu Pi...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a non-refundable HIV/AIDS prevention project worth $7 million granted by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (The Global Fund). The funding will be used to promote the...
Representatives from local and foreign firms have requested authorities to let private firms access the official development assistance (ODA) fund, the Thoi Bao Kinh Doanh (Business Times) reported from the Vietnam-Japan Business Forum on Oct 20....
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has launched a campaign to tighten control over prenatal gender selection in an effort to cope with worse sex imbalance, state media reported Monday [Oct 19]. A campaign has been jointly launched by the Ministry of...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership membership is expected to make medicine more expensive in Vietnam, according to an Oxfam report on the intellectual property (IP) and other monopoly regulation impacts of the trade deal. Though IP rules have not yet...
Vietnam has recorded remarkable achievements in curbing the infant mortality rate (IMR), measured by the number of infants dying before reaching one year of age per 1,000 live births, over the past decade thanks to an expanded immunization program (...
Health officials in Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An have reported the death of a baby related to the free 5-in-1 (Quinvaxem) vaccination, raising the national death rate to two since last month and eight in two years. The three-month-old boy...
The public-private partnership (PPP) model in provincial-level hospital management is the most effective in examining and treating patients among other types of investment, participants said at a conference held today in Vietnam’s southern Dong Nai...
The number of children who have died from hand-foot-mouth disease has reduced, but the risk of outbreak remains in— this season, according to the Ministry of Health's Preventive Health Department. The country has recorded more than 34,300 cases of...
The freshwater shortage in the Mekong Delta was the main topic on the agenda at a conference on combating drought held in Ben Tre. Dang Van Dung, deputy director of the Southern Hydro-meteorology Station, said the weather patterns around the country...
