Nhat Tan Bridge in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi, which uses the funding of the Japanese government, is expected to open to traffic later this year, said Nguyen Thanh Van, general director of the Project Management Unit No. 85. To date, 96.4% of...
The U.S. Mission to Vietnam has announced the launch of a Small Grants Program to celebrate 20 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Through this program, Vietnamese non-governmental organizations, not-for-profit organizations,...
The State of the World's Midwifery 2014: "A Universal Pathway. A Woman's Right to Heath" launched in Hanoi by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Vietnam, together with the Ministry of Health (MOH), reveals that having midwives at the...
Vietnamese authorities have called on the government to invest more in sex education and reproductive healthcare in a bid to curb the rising pregnancy rate among teenagers. The investment would help reduce abortion cases in young adults, Dr Nguyen...
A two-month-old baby girl in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap died on early July 8 after having a five-in-one Quinvaxem vaccine shot, marking the fourth death in Vietnam allegedly linked to the popular vaccine since the beginning of 2014....
Vietnam will not face shortage of vaccines for children any more as more than 300,000 doses of 5-in-1, 6-in-1 and chickenpox vaccines are scheduled to be delivered from now to September. Of the sum, two local companies will import 62,000 doses of 5-...
The Vietnam National Pediatrics Hospital expects to raise the number of robot-assisted endoscopic surgeries to 100 by the end of 2014, with the costs likely to be much lower than similar cases in developed countries. The Hanoi-based hospital on June...
Hanoi will start building a second pipeline bringing water from the Da River to the capital in September. The decision came after the existing one broke on Thursday afternoon – the eighth time since the VND1.5 trillion ($70.8 million) pipeline was...
The Ha Long Bay Management Board on July 8th held a meeting to discuss environmental protection in the face of pollution caused by various vessels operating in its waters. According to a report prepared by the board, there are 527 cruise ships...
A severe drought, the most critical in 30 years, is occurring in Vietnam’s central region, affecting the local agriculture and citizen’s livelihood, state media reported. Particularly, Binh Dinh and Phu Yen provinces are the two localities hit...
