The HIV & Addiction Treatment Technology Transfer Centre in the south, the second in Vietnam, has become operational in Ho Chi Minh City. The centre is a joint effort between the Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, the Hanoi...
The first non-relative umbilical cord blood transplant was successfully conducted in Vietnam, announced the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) under the Ministry of Health on April 2. The transplant took place on December...
Australia will continue to work with Vietnam to share experiences in dealing with integrated water management, including water quality control, and assist Vietnam to address challenges it faces in the sector, according to Australian Ambassador to...
The lack of clean water was affecting 1 million Vietnamese each year, the Government's portal chinhphu.vn reported from a conference held in Hanoi on March 26. The conference was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, who stressed on the need...
Massive felling of street trees has been recorded in a number of cities across Vietnam, not only in the capital city of Hanoi, according to state media. Earlier this month, Hanoi started its plan to cut 6,700 aged trees in its main streets and...
The International Exhibition Fair for Environment and Energy Technology (ENTECH HANOI 2015) will convene from May 20 to 22 at the Hanoi International Exhibition Centre in Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi. The 6,000 square meter fair features between 160...
Vietnamese school girls and female students get around 150,000 abortion cases every year, according to the Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Population and Family Planning. The figure accounts for half of the total abortion cases in the country...
Can Tho University, a member of the ASEAN University Network (AUN), announced that its biotechnology and aquatic farming training programs have recently been accredited as AUN - Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) programs. President Ha Thanh Toan said the...
Nearly 170,000 people living in Bien Hoa and Phu Cat airports, two hotspots contaminated with dioxin in Vietnam after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, have been no longer exposed to the dioxin/orange agent risks thanks to a cleanup project funded by...
The People’s Committee of southern Tay Ninh province has devised a number of measures to reduce poverty and bring the local impoverished household rate to below 2% in 2015 from current 2.38%. The programs are designed to ensure sustainable poverty...
