Water for drinking and sanitation in 37 villages across northern and central Vietnam is seriously contaminated and is the main cause behind many cancer cases, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. “The most common problem...
The Preventive Medicine Department under the Ministry of Health has urged local parents to bring their children aged above one to hospitals to get vaccinated against chicken pox. The call was made as 10 cases have occurred every week since Jan 1. Dr...
Vietnam will take measures to tighten control over food safety this year, including imposing strict fines for violators as well as publicizing their names in order to ensure costumers’ right to access to safe food, said Deputy Minister of Health...
As the flow of the Red River changed due to the impacts of climate change and socio-economic development, the Red River Delta region would face problems, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Hoang Van Thang warned at a workshop....
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) have signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen disaster response management for the Southeast Asian country. The...
From improving institutions to devising detailed plans for each sector, Vietnam is making every effort in order to dramatically reduce CO2 emissions by 2030. Vietnam is predicted to pump 466 million tonnes of CO2 into the air by 2020 and 760.5...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has requested local authorities in Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) and the south-eastern regions to enhance measures to prevent forest fires. In an official document sent to several provinces,...
The 2015 Earth Hour response program, which calls upon people to save energy to cope with climate change, was launched in Hanoi on February 7th. A switch-off ceremony will be televised live from August Square between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on March 28th...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi has targeted to increase the proportion of schools meeting national standards to 50%-55% by the end of this year from 41.2% in 2014, said Pham Thi Hong Nga, deputy director of the municipal Department of Education and...
The Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange (VAVA) has recently received 3,500 presents from the Decathlon Vietnam Co. Ltd., for the victims of Agent Orange. The giving started a program to give presents to AO victims during the lunar New...
