According to medical reports, scorching hot weather is conducive to foods perishing faster and an increase in the number of food poisoning cases. Although food poisoning is not infectious, the number of hospitalized cases are on the upward trend...
Authorities in Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai will need an estimated VND15 trillion ($707.54 million) to move the Bien Hoa Industrial Park (IP) No.1, the oldest of its kind in the country, for severely polluting the environment. The...
Most enterprises in Vietnam, both foreign and domestic ones, are ignoring the government’s environmental protection regulations due to lax management and lenient fines on violators, as showed in a recent survey. The Ministry of Planning and...
A 230kg (500 pounds) bomb was successfully removed from Cay Dua residential area in Di Lang town of Son Ha district in the central province of Quang Ngai on July 2. The 1.45m long bomb was discovered by sappers from the Truong Son Construction...
Nearly VND15 billion has been mobilized via the charity program called “Compassionate Hearts” to support critically underprivileged children during the country’s Action Month for Children in June. This is the fifth year the program has been held by...
Vietnam has been praised for implementing and fulfilling some Millennium. At the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) in Geneva from July 1-4, Vietnam is one of three countries selected to share...
Over 350 reliefs depicting ethnic minorities’ daily lives and cultural values have recently been attached to the Dak Nong bridge walls to beautify the bridge and promote the peoples’ culture. The 50×80 cm reliefs are attached along the walls at one-...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health held on July 4 a meeting to review the implementation of a program on nutrition and food security for Vietnamese kids using loan from the Spanish government. The Joint Program on Integrated Nutrition and Food Security...
Japan has decided to transfer technology for producing one kind of combined vaccine against measles and rubella to Vietnam as part of its Strategy on Global Health Diplomacy issued by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in May. Accordingly, Japanese Daiichi...
Vietnam’s prime minister has decided to establish the National Center for coordinating Human Organ Transplants in the capital city of Hanoi, the first of its kind in the country so far. Located at Vietnam-Germany General Hospital, the center is...
