Vietnam’s Mekong delta provinces find it hard to choose either to promote the paddy and fruit granaries or to develop thermal power projects which will pose negative impacts on the environment. Authorities in Can Tho, Tra Vinh, Soc Trang, Long An,...
Customs officers in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City have detected and seized nearly 500 kilograms of elephant tusks hidden in two timber containers imported from Africa, the fourth ivory smuggling cases to be unearthed in the...
Seven more locals went missing in the central province of Phu Yen due to floods caused by heavy rains over the past few days, raising the number of missing victims in the region to eight, according to initial reports. Quang Binh province reported...
Vietnam and EU on November 3 held a higher education forum, which was expected to boost the educational cooperation between the Southeast Asian country and the European nations, state media reported. The forum aims to help universities, educational...
In a ceremony to honor good ethnic minority students in the presidency palace in Hanoi, Vietnamese State President Tran Dai Quang urged the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs, the Ministry of Education and training, relevant ministries and local...
Somewhere in a village in the central province of Quang Tri, a muffled yet powerful explosion erupts, followed immediately by another, shaking the ground beneath us. Sparks shower from the treetops like arrows aimed at the sky, then a black plume of...
The Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients on October 22 organised free-of-charge operations for 200 poor patients suffering from cataract at the Nguyen Trai Hospital and celebrated the 500,000th case in the past 20 years. Most of...
High levels of child marriage threaten Vietnam's society as a whole, said Nguyen Viet Tien, Deputy Minister of Health during a conference on October 25. Vietnam’s Law on Marriage and Family sets the minimum legal age for marriage at 18 for women and...
Due to historical circumstances, many M’nong people in Dak Nong province only have their first name in legal documents because they do not know their surnames. Females and males are distinguished by middle names such as Y, Dieu, K, H, or Thi, thus M...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has given the green light to a Japanese-funded medical project on the detection and treatment of pneumonia among children. The five-year project will begin in 2017, under a non-refundable grant from the...
