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...
The central province of Nghe An’s People’s Committee has for the first time announced a state of emergency across the province due to prolonged severe drought occurring in the locality during the summer-autumn crop 2015. Together with the...
Vietnam is hosting the First Pangolin Range States workshop in the central city of Danang on June 24-26 with the attendance of Secretary General of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and U.S....
At least seven people died, four got injured and four others went missing after tropical storm Kujira swept northern Vietnam on June 23-24, state media reported Thursday. The victims are located in from the northern city of Haiphong, the northern...
The Mekong Delta, Vietnam's biggest farming region, is losing 500 hectares (1,235 acres) of land to erosion every year as land accretion fails to make up for areas being washed away, new evidence suggested. Studies and satellite images have showed...
Lawyer Bertrand Repolt from the Paris-based William “Bourdon & Forestier” law firm which is representing Vietnamese French Tran To Nga in a lawsuit against 26 US chemical companies for producing dioxin-containing Agent Orange sprayed by the US...
