General News

  • On May 31, Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan met with World Bank (WB) officials to discuss climate-resilient agricultural projects in Vietnam, local media reported. The meeting highlighted ongoing collaboration...
    Monday, 10th June, 2024
  • On May 31, Children's Hospital 1 in Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh City reported a pediatric patient in critical condition due to a rare brain-eating amoeba infection, which has a fatality rate of over 95%, local media reported....
    Monday, 10th June, 2024
  • Two weeks after the call on May 19 by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, nearly 10,000 people in Vietnam have voluntarily registered as organ donors, local media reported. Professor Dr. Dong Van He, director of the National Coordination Center for...
    Monday, 10th June, 2024
  • Vietnamese Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien has highlighted the ongoing legal gaps in state regulation of electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products due to the absence of provisions for these products in the Law on Prevention...
    Monday, 10th June, 2024
  • From the International General Hospital S.I.S Can Tho in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, Vietnamese doctors have performed two complex brain vascular interventions, live-streaming them to the LINNC PARIS conference in Paris on June 3 for 500...
    Monday, 10th June, 2024
  • Individuals, community-based organizations, government agencies and the United Nations (UN) made a collective commitment to achieving clean air in Hanoi through joint action and innovative solutions at an event held on June 3. The event Clean Air,...
    Monday, 10th June, 2024
  • Vietnam is generating little value by using its water resources as the country’s water use efficiency is currently $2.37 per cubic meter, versus the global average of $19.42 per cubic meter, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and the...
    Monday, 10th June, 2024
  • A program was initiated in Hanoi on June 3 to call for joint action and innovative solutions for clean air in Vietnam’s capital city, in response to the World Environment Day (June 5), local media reported. The event was co-held by the municipal...
    Monday, 10th June, 2024
  • Vietnam has large rare earth reserves, at around 20.7 million tons, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh reported to National Assembly deputies on June 4. Of the total, the Ministry Natural Resources and Environment has...
    Monday, 10th June, 2024
  • Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Hoang Hiep has proposed the German Development Cooperation Agency (GIZ) continue its support to Vietnam in natural disaster prevention and other fields in the coming years, local...
    Monday, 10th June, 2024