General News

  • Vietnam ranks among the top ten countries with the most sedentary populations, the United Nations Population Fund said. Data from the Ministry of Health’s Department of Preventive Medicine revealed that 30% of Vietnamese adults lack physical...
    Monday, 26th August, 2024
  • The Vietnamese Ministry of Health (MoH), supported by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations Migration Agency, and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Vietnam, held a workshop in An Giang...
    Monday, 26th August, 2024
  • Vietnamese Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan has pointed out some legal gaps concerning electronic cigarettes, heated tobacco products, and other new tobacco products. In response to a petition from voters in the central coastal city of Danang calling...
    Monday, 26th August, 2024
  • At a regular press conference in Hanoi on August 22, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Pham Thu Hang confirmed that Vietnamese authorities have stepped up efforts to prevent monkeypox, including enhanced monitoring and disease control. Her statement...
    Monday, 26th August, 2024
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) has completed an emergency purchase of more than one million doses of measles-rubella vaccines to help control outbreaks and bolster immunization efforts in Vietnam's highest-risk areas, said WHO Chief...
    Monday, 26th August, 2024
  • Vietnam outlined its contributions in efficient energy use toward a zero-emission Asia at the second Ministerial Conference of the Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC) in Jakarta on August 21, state media reported. Mr. Pham Van Tan, Deputy Director...
    Monday, 26th August, 2024
  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) held a training workshop on August 20 to guide businesses in greenhouse gas (GHG) measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV), local media reported. Supported by USAID’s Vietnam Low Emission Energy...
    Monday, 26th August, 2024
  • Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized a “five-point” approach to education development during a school year review conference in Hanoi on August 19, state media reported. The “five-point” strategy highlighted the importance of placing students...
    Monday, 26th August, 2024
  • As of April, Vietnam’s education system faced a shortage of 113,491 teachers for the 2024-2025 academic year, the Ministry of Education and Training announced in its report at a conference in Hanoi on August 19. The ministry noted that the most...
    Monday, 26th August, 2024
  • Decades after the end of the war, the battle-scarred Quang Tri Province is undergoing a remarkable rebirth. Efforts to clear unexploded ordnance have reclaimed vast tracts of land, allowing farmers to safely cultivate their crops. The war left a...
    Monday, 19th August, 2024