The U.S. chemical companies sued by an Agent Orange victim living in France are trying to delay the lawsuit’s progress by questioning the accuracy of documents submitted by the plaintiff. Bertrand Repolt, who represented the plaintiff’s team of...
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urgently asked localities to quickly resolve the problems caused by a tropical storm, enabling life in the storm-hit areas to return to normal. The storm, the first this year, caused heavy rains, flash...
A number of schools in northern Vietnam have recently brought farming into their teaching with the aim of supplying life skills to students from ethnic minority groups. Since the academic year of 2014-15, the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai...
The ethnic minority communities in Huong Hoa, a mountainous district of central province of Quang Tri will benefit from a livelihood development project worth $2.2 million mainly donated by New Zealand Ministry for Foreign and Trade (MFAT) and...
Over 350 delegates from regional governments, businesses, and NGOs gathered in Hanoi on June 23 to discuss various steps to boost the development of agriculture in Southeast Asia. The two-day responsible business forum on food and agriculture,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) office in Vietnam announced on June 21 that the country will soon receive the licenses to produce vaccines for export, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported on June 22. According to the WHO, Vietnam is the fifth...
Vietnam’s general practitioners will be trained to become family doctors like in many Western countries. The highly popular overseas service is being introduced to try and reduce overloading at central hospitals - and to offer patients far better...
Hospitals across Vietnam are calling on local citizens to donate blood at nearby healthcare facilities as the blood bank at the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) is facing a severe shortage, especially of blood types A...
The overuse of antibiotics in both people and livestock in Vietnam is posing a rising threat of drug resistance, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said at a meeting with Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the World Health Organization (WHO...
Up to 92.7% of people living in the outskirts of the capital city had access to clean water in 2014, the Hanoi Moi newspaper reported on June 24 quoting data from the local Center for Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (CERWASS). Of the figure, 33.8...
