The Vietnam Rising milk fund has donated over 72,000 glasses of milk to 800 kids from poor families in the central province of Quang Tri. Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social...
International organizations have continued to work with Vietnam in fighting HIV/AIDS by financial and technical support over the past time. HIV/AIDS prevention work in Vietnam has been hailed as the epitome of enormous achievements other nations...
A climate change adaptation project funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) kicked off in Tra Vinh province on July 25. The project will be implemented from 2014 to 2020 in 30 villages of 7 districts in the province,...
A first dengue fever outbreak in Cau Giay District of Hanoi affected nine people, said Hoang Duc Hanh, deputy head of the city’s Department of Health on July 23. The outbreak was first recorded in the city. Health authorities and the local...
Since early this year, Hanoi has reported 21 cases of Japanese encephalitis, 17 cases more than the same period last year. HCM City to launch large-scale Japanese encephalitis shots Biosensor detects Japanese encephalitis virus. Of the infection...
The number of children receiving hepatitis B vaccine within a day of being born has fallen sharply, said professor Nguyen Tran Hien, director of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology. In the first six months of this year, a fifth of the newborns...
Vietnam spent $963.3 million on the imports of pharmaceutical products in the first six months of this year, rising by 8.23% against the same period last year, said the Vietnam Industry and Trade Information Center. India became the biggest supplier...
A sanitation project funded by the World Bank has been put into operation in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh with the aim of improving the lives of local residents. The project on drainage and waste water treatment system in Dong Hoi city...
Camera traps installed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recorded another Asiatic black bear (Ursus Thibetanus) in the central province last month, the WWF's communications department said yesterday. The discovery of the Asiatic black bear, which is...
Vietnam has suffered big casualties with 26 dead, two missing and one wounded after typhoon Rammasun washed out the Southeast Asian country last weekend, said the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control. The death-roll is likely higher, it...
