Doctors from the Vietnam National Hospital of Paediatrics and the Vietnam National Heart Institute successfully replaced an inferior vena cava, the main vein in the stomach, and removed a tumor on a child who suffers from renal cancer. He was the...
UNICEF aims to assure 50% of children around the world are breastfed exclusively in their first six months, but Vietnam has only reached 17%, an Asia-Pacific UNICEF representative said at a recent conference on nutrition in Hanoi. The percentage in...
According to a World Health Organization (WHO) comparison of per capita consumption in liters of pure alcohol, Vietnamese—at 8.7 liters per year—out-drink residents of all other Southeast Asian nations. "There's a huge problem with drinking in...
Unsafe food containing harmful bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances causes more than 200 diseases that claim an estimated 2 million lives globally each year, said the World Health Organization (WHO) in Vietnam. WHO in Vietnam made the...
A shortage of clean water would affect residents in several parts of Hanoi district this summer, the Hanoi Water Supply Company said. The shortage of water is expected to reach 60,000cu.m per day, while the demand for clean water in summer increases...
Several foreign countries recycle and reuse waste to protect the environment and save natural resources, but this has not received the attention it merits in Vietnam, environmental experts said. Statistics from the Ministry of Natural Resources and...
The Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau will spend VND198 billion ($9.5 million) to cope with climate change and rising sea levels this year, said Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Van Su. Of the figure,...
A textbook reform plan has been approved by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, which will see VND778.8bn spent by the Education Ministry for new study materials available in 2018, involving input from private organizations. The textbooks will include...
A court in France’s Evry will hold on April 16 a trial in which a Vietnamese-French woman sues 26 U.S. chemical firms for their involvement in the Vietnam War that leaves serious consequences for ages. Vietnamese-French Tran To Nga, 73, on behalf of...
Experts gathered at a national conference in the northern mountainous Lai Chau province on March 30 to discuss how to preserve and develop the culture of ethnic groups in the Thai-Kadai language family in Vietnam. The annual conference, the 7th of...
