The 8th Red Spring festival, the year’s largest gathering of blood donors, will be taken place on March 8th in Hanoi. This year’s festival began on February 24th and hopes to achieve an overall contribution of 8,000 units. The main day on March 8th...
A short supply of 5-in-1 pediatric vaccine Pentaxim has prompted hundreds of parents in Hanoi to spend their night in front of an immunization station, to secure one of the 300 available doses for their children. Despite the cold weather, many...
Authorities in Vietnam’s southern province of Soc Trang have detected appearance of bird flu in two districts Long Phu and Ke Sach during the past two weeks, said Quach Van Tay, head of the provincial Department of Animal Health. Samples taken from...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has requested the Ministry of Health and the Vietnam Social Security to take tough measures to boost the country’s health insurance coverage rate to 75% in 2015 and 80% by 2020. The request was made at a...
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has set up two centers to cope with influenza in Hanoi and HCM City. The moves follow a recent warning by the World Health Organization (WHO) over dangerous changes in the flu virus, said the General Department of...
The Government has approved a national program to look for underground water in 44 cities and provinces where water supply was limited. Such regions as Central Vietnam, the Central Highlands and the Mekong Delta have experienced difficulty in...
Authorities in Vietnam’s province of Quang Nam have put into operation an anti-disaster center funded by the U.S. Pacific Command, extending support to disadvantaged people in the central region, the hardest-hit region by natural calamities in the...
The U.S. Embassy in Vietnam and Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development have launched a program to combat wildlife trafficking to follow global efforts to save wild animals, mostly rhinos. The program called Operation Game Change is...
Vietnam always places her people in the cornerstone of every policy related to climate change, especially the national climate change response strategy, a Vietnamese representative addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council’s session on...
The government of Vietnam has proposed the National Assembly (NA) allow it to provide an additional VND3.7 trillion (nearly $173 million) worth of g-bonds to complete the 2011-2015 school consolidation scheme. Minister of Planning and Investment Bui...
