As the monsoon season approaches, Hanoi authorities have developed several scenarios to cope with flooding to protect people and their produce. Hoang Nam Son, deputy director of Hanoi Department of Construction, said his department had come up with...
Under current laws, female workers can enjoy six-month maternity leave, but state-owned nursery schools only accept children older than 12 months. Hong Duyen, a mother of an 8-month old baby in District 7 in HCM City, complained that she cannot send...
The Association of People Loving Vietnam in the Republic of Korea (VESAMO) presented 30,000 USD to Agent Orange/Dioxin victims in the northern localities of Thai Binh, Nam Dinh and Hanoi at a Vietnam-Republic of Korea charity event on April 22. The...
Minister of National Defence, General Phung Quang Thanh, has welcomed the US's move to double its funding for clearing Unexploded Ordnances (UXOs), saying it would help Viet Nam deal better with the aftermath of the war and enable people to live in...
Within half a month recently, three more districts in Ho Chi Minh City were recognized as districts without under poor households whose income reaches only VND16 million ($741) a person per year, taking the total to eight districts. It is expected...
The value of gong culture, a distinctive feature of the Central Highlands and a piece of world intangible cultural heritage, is vividly cherished through a festival kicked off in the regional province of Lam Dong on April 24. The festival brought...
The prime minister has approved a project to purchase fire-fighting, search and rescue equipment using official development assistance (ODA) funds from Finland. Vietnam’s ODA to Laos to increase by 30% The investment totals more than EUR16 million,...
Vietnam may export its vaccines after local producers have met the requirements of the World Health Organization (WHO), said experts from the organization. After a one-week mission to Vietnam from April 9 to review the implementation of the Vaccine...
Doctors at the Ho Chi Minh City-based Hospital for Tropical Diseases have diagnosed Trypanosoma evansi, a kind of blood parasite affecting a large number of wild and domesticated animal species, in a patient admitted to the hospital. The 38-year-old...
Hand-foot-mouth disease has spread widely in Vietnam’s southern provinces, infecting numerous children in the region, state media reported. The Ho Chi Minh City-based Paediatrics Hospitals No 1's Neurology and Infectious Diseases is full with...
