The Ministry of Health has decided to resume the use of Quinvaxem, a combined vaccine against five diseases among children, starting October after five months of suspension to clear up some cases of severe post-vaccination reactions. The move...
Locally produced drugs are reportedly sold at 5%-10% lower than prices of imported medicines so that Vietnamese people should use more, instead of the imported, according to a government program. Under the plan, Vietnamese doctors are advised to use...
A huge volume of untreated waste from livestock farming is polluting Vietnam’s environment, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). There are 8.5 million householders and 18,000 animal farms producing 75 million-85 million...
People living near Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant in the central province of Quang Nam have been worrying about their safety as the flood season comes. Recently, due to the impact of tropical storms, Bac Tra My District in Quang Nam Province have...
The Vietnamese government needs to make more efforts in managing alien species, which are growing at a fast pace and threatening the ecosystem and biodiversity, local experts said at a recent meeting in Hanoi. An official survey showed that up to 85...
Hanoi is going to launch a pilot project in which parents will supervise and partly decide what exactly their fees will pay for at public schools. The project will be piloted at five education facilities, from October 2013 until the end of July 2014...
A play, “Memorial Day”, written by Brian Delate and directed by Dan Bonnel, will be staged at the Youth Theatre in Hanoi on September 20th and 21st to raise more funds for Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (AO). At a press conference on...
The gap between the rich and the poor in Vietnam has become wider in the past few years, a trend that will worsen if the government continues to tolerate the wrongdoings of state officials and grant privileges to wealthy and interest groups....
The Committee for Ethnic Minorities organized a conference to collect opinions on setting up a system of database on the country’s ethnic minorities in 2014-2015 period. At the conference in Hanoi on September 18, participants argued the project...
The Japanese government announced loans worth $500 million in official development assistance (ODA) to three development projects in Vietnam at the fifth meeting of the Vietnam-Japan Cooperation Committee in Tokyo on Sept 12. The funding is under...
