The World Health Organization (WHO) has praised Vietnam’s tuberculosis (TB) prevention work, saying that the country is one of the three leading countries in terminating the epidemic, said Deputy Minister of Health Le Quang Cuong at a national...
The measles-rubella vaccine (MR) produced by Vietnam, which was clinically tested and proven safe and effective, will be used in the National Expanded Program on Immunization free of charge in 2017. This is the first vaccine that has been produced...
Vietnam has successfully performed nearly 1,400 organ transplant surgeries since 1992, said Le Quang Cuong, Deputy Minister of Health. He said that Vietnam successfully performed more than 1,280 kidney transplants, as well as liver, heart and bone...
Health officials on November 18 reported eight more local Zika infections, raising the total to 46 Ho Chi Minh City residents who have acquired the disease from mosquitoes in the country this year. The Preventive Medicine Centre disclosed Zika...
In recent years, Bac Ninh has increased safe and sanitary water supplies for rural people funded by the National Target Program for Rural Clean Water and Sanitation, World Bank loans, and social resources. As a result, 98% of the people in Bac Ninh’...
Vietnam has destroyed tons of elephant tusks and rhino horns ahead of an international conference called “Illegal Wildlife Trade” that will be hosted in Hanoi on Nov 17-18 to show the country’s efforts to combat wild animal trading which is quite...
Vietnam may lose an estimated 1,122 hectares of forest in 2016 due to illegal logging, state media reported, citing deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ha Cong Tuan. More than 40% of lost area caused by local residents in the...
Vietnam’s government is determined to combat illegal wildlife trade and speed up the completion of institution on wild species protection, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said. Speaking at a reception in Hanoi on Nov 16 given to Prince of the UK...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has issued Circular 26/2016 to regulate the classification of marine areas based on the level of risk of pollution following the incident caused by Taiwan’s Hung Nghiep Formosa Ha Tinh...
Vietnam signed a joint statement to cooperate with 13 wildlife conservation organizations on November 16 ahead of the International Wildlife Trade Conference (IWTC), which takes place on November 17 in Hanoi, Tuoi Tre newspaper reports. They are...
