General News

  • Participants at an international seminar have stressed the need to protect the ecological environment for sustainable economic growth. The seminar was held in the southern city of Can Tho on May 27 by the south-western region’s steering board and...
    Monday, 2nd June, 2014
  • Socio-political organizations have been called on to take greater part in raising public awareness of climate change and rising sea levels. These are posing a visible threat to Vietnam’s efforts to reduce poverty and achieve sustainable development...
    Monday, 2nd June, 2014
  • Up to 25%-30% of students in Vietnam suffer from refraction errors, the Vietnam News Agency said on May 26, citing a survey by ophthalmologists. The ratio is higher at 30%-60% in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Ophthalmologists said that almost all...
    Monday, 2nd June, 2014
  • Two children from Phuc Trach Commune in the central province of Quang Binh were killed yesterday by two grenades left over from the American War, the communal Party secretary Nguyen Van Hien told Vietnam News in a phone interview. Hien said the nine...
    Monday, 26th May, 2014
  • The central province of Quang Tri has asked the government to support VND27 billion ($1.28 million) to help it remove unexploded ordnance (UXO) in Ho Xa industrial park in Vinh Linh district. (Thanh Nien – Young People May 23 p2)
    Monday, 26th May, 2014
  • Poverty relapse is high in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, with the rate as high as one third in particularly underprivileged communes, according to Vice Chairman of the National Assembly (NA)’s Ethnic Council Danh Ut. He pointed out the fact...
    Monday, 26th May, 2014
  • The Vietnamese health officials have called for urgent action to prevent concurrent outbreaks of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD), dengue fever and measles across the country. Phan Trong Lan, director of the Pasteur Institute in HCM City, said HFMD’s...
    Monday, 26th May, 2014
  • The Ministry of Health has recommended preventive measures against the Middle East respiratory syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) that is spreading in many countries around the world. The ministry’s Preventive Medicine Centre advised people to minimize...
    Monday, 26th May, 2014
  • Around five million children aged between 6 and 36 months in Vietnam will receive free vitamin A pills on June 1-2, part of the government’s efforts to reduce the high rate of malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies in children in the country....
    Monday, 26th May, 2014
  • Vietnam ranks first in Asia and 5th worldwide for the abortion rate with an annual average of one million cases, the Ministry of Health said at a conference supported by France’s Doctors Without Borders in Hanoi. As many as 83 out of 1,000 women in...
    Monday, 26th May, 2014