The U.S.-Vietnam Clean Energy Conference opened on April 14 in Ho Chi Minh City to promote green energy sustainability in Vietnam, state media reported. The conference, part of the continuing celebration of the 20-year anniversary of the...
Thanks to the national tuberculosis preventive program, a man in HCM City's Tan Phu District who was diagnosed with TB is not afraid he will transmit the disease to his infant son. The man, who asked not to be named, had exclaimed earlier to doctors...
More than 10 million Vietnamese, or about 11% of the country’s population, are said to carry the thalassemia gene, an inherited disorder that affects the production of hemoglobin, posing serious concerns about their quality of life, according to...
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has approved a new recommended schedule of the National Expanded Program on Immunization, in which the second measles shot given to children aged 18 months old will be replaced by a measles-rubella vaccine. On May 13,...
The Vietnam Administration of HIV/AIDS Control (VAAC) under the Ministry of Health have found an additional 1,500 people with HIV in the first quarter this year, bringing the total HIV cases in Vietnam to 230,000, the An Ninh Thu Do newspaper...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security has proposed criminalizing the use of banned chemicals in food processing in order to prevent food poisoning and protect consumers’ health. According to the ministry’s proposal, processing, supplying and selling...
Nearly 15 million liters of fresh water were delivered on May 12 to central Ninh Thuan Province's Thuan Nam and Bac Ai districts, which have been suffering from a severe drought. The fresh water is for local residents who need water for drinking and...
Scientists from domestic universities and Japan’s Tohuku University made practical proposals to prevent erosion along Cua Dai beach in central Quang Nam province’s Hoi An city at a workshop on May 12. The ongoing serious destruction occurring along...
The central Vietnamese province of Ninh Thuan is suffering from a serious drought which has depleted 20 local lakes during the last six months. Phan Rang, the province’s biggest city, is considered the most arid area in the country with a yearly...
The Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in central Quang Binh province has reported three new species of eyeless spider in the park. Dr Pham Dinh Sac, a scientist with the national Institute of Ecology and Fauna Resources, found the species in the many...
