In a move to unlock the economic potential of Vietnam's mountainous areas, the International Cooperation Department (ICD) under the Government Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs has joined hands with the Institute for International Investment...
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) pledged to support Vietnam in developing circular agriculture, said Chief Resident Representative of the UNDP Vietnam Ramla Khalidi.
Affirming at a dialogue co-hosted by the UNDP and Vietnam’s Ministry...
Vietnam wishes to receive support from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in addictive drug prevention and rehab as well as human trafficking fight, said Deputy Minister of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs Nguyen Van Hoi.
Mr....
Dr. Nguyen Tuan Lam, a representative of the World Health Organization (WHO), has recommended that the Vietnam legislature pass a resolution to prohibit the importation, production, distribution, and sale of new generation nicotine products, local...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has proposed removing the policy limiting each couple to have one or two children in its Population Law draft, aiming to maintain the replacement fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman nationwide.
The draft law...
Vietnamese doctors successfully performed a liver transplant on a patient with the rare Budd-Chiari syndrome for the first time, Dr. Pham Ngoc Thach, deputy director of Children’s Hospital 2 announced at a press conference about the hospital’s...
The number of hospitalisations due to electronic cigarette use has been increasing recently, with most cases involving young patients experiencing acute poisoning.
In the first six months of 2024, the Poison Control Center at Hanoi’s Bach Mai...
U.S. experts shared sustainable development practices in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and Da Lat from June 26 to July 7, emphasizing the importance of government roles and innovative initiatives, local media reported.
The activity was part of a project...
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on July 8 signed a decision approving the national environmental protection planning project for the 2021 – 2030 period, with a vision to 2050.
The planning project’s objectives are to proactively prevent...
A total of nine Vietnamese higher education institutions were honored in the Best Global Universities Rankings 2024-2025, recently released by News & World Report of the United States, state media reported.
They are (i) Duy Tan University, (ii...
