The Vietnamese government has established a Decision to implement health insurance nationwide in the 2015-2020 period with a target rate of 84.3% coverage by 2020. According to the Decision, Vietnam is aiming at a rate of 75.4% of all population...
The blood bank at the Hanoi-based National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion is running out of blood type A with only 160 units of 250ml left, local media reported today. The hospital said that it needed 500 units of type-A daily to...
The prices of paid vaccines in Vietnam have surged between 5% and 10% recently due to scarcity and foreign manufacturers hiking their quotes, according to the Hanoi Preventive Medicine Center. The price of a dose of vaccine against typhoid has gone...
The development of dengue fever in the South East region and in all corners of the country is complicated. In August, the health sector in the southern provinces of Dong Nai and Binh Duong reported 6 deaths; accordingly, the sector must speed up to...
Vietnam Clean Water Investment and Construction Corporation (VIWACO) will raise the running water prices for households by 20% starting on October 1. The hike means that consumers have to pay VND6,869 (30 US cent) per cubic meter (cu.m) for the...
The central province plans to create a 7,900ha sea reserve off the coast of Ly Son island and Binh Chau commune before awarding it Global Geopark status. Nguyen Dang Vu, Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said the...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the EU delegation on September 14 co-hosted a seminar on the EU-Vietnam relationship and experience on climate change response. The two sides have run a number of cooperative programs on climate change, renewal...
Competent agencies should review their precautionary work to better respond to natural disasters, which have killed 98 people, and caused damage totaling nearly $243 million in Vietnam in the past eight months, Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai...
Environmental pollution in Vietnam causes damage equal to 5% the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) annually, representatives of the World Bank said at a workshop in Hanoi on Sept 15. The Southeast Asian country needs to spend additional $780...
The Vietnamese government has approved the Distance training development plan in the 2015-2020 period with the aim of providing accredited certificates for all distance training programs by 2020. The plan proposes measures to verify all licensed...
