The Ministry of Health (MoH) has asked cities and provinces to be on high alert of the Ebola virus disease (EVD), which is spreading in a number of African countries, though no EVD patient has been recorded in Vietnam to date. Ebola – passed on...
People from West African countries affected by the Ebola outbreak will have to sign a medical declaration before entering Vietnam from August 15. Any person suspected of having come into contact with the virus will be stopped at airports or border...
The rate of antibiotic resistance among Vietnamese people has been rising due to the inappropriate use of over-the-counter antibiotics in treatment of anti-bacterial contamination in the country. No prescription was involved in 88% of antibiotics...
Vietnam’s health authorities are trying to increase the rate of infants breast-bred during the first six months of their lives in Vietnam, which is now only 19.6% or the lowest level in Southeast Asia. Nemat Hajeebhoy, director of the Alive &...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on August 9 chaired an urgent meeting with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and other relevant agencies to institute preventative measures to minimize the risk of the Ebola virus entering Vietnam. Vietnam issues highest...
Hundreds of people in Vietnam’s Central Highland province of Gia Lai are living in peril after a hydropower plant dam broke on Aug 1, damaging hundreds of hectares of crops. The dam of the 5.5-MW Ia Krel hydropower plant suddenly collapsed for the...
The Mekong Delta must come up with ways to address the consequences of climate change, especially rising sea levels and salinity intrusion, delegates said at a workshop in Hanoi on Aug 9. Covering an area of about 3.96 million hectares, the Mekong...
Erosion is affecting many areas in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta, causing property damage and interruption of business production. In Ca Mau Province, Nam Can District has had 23 riverbank erosion cases in the first half of the year, causing property...
The illegal use of forest land and deforestation still occur in many provinces despite many attempts in recent years. Forest productivity was also low, experts told a conference on forestry production in northern Thai Nguyen Province last Aug 8. At...
A rare leatherback turtle, known scientifically as Dermochelys Coriacea Linnaeus, has been released into the sea in the central province of Quang Binh. Truong Thanh, a fisherman in Dong Hoi city, found the 80 kilogramme turtle stuck in his net while...
