Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha on May 5 signed an diploma note over scholarship project for personnel development. The signing ceremony was under the witness of Vietnamese...
Japan’s Supporting Industrial Development Organization in Vietnam has granted JPY1.5 million ($1.4 million) to Vietnam’s Central Disaster Prevention Support Fund with an aim to help the Southeast Asian country cope with decade-worst El Nino....
Dozens of delegates from non-governmental organizations in ASEAN members have gathered in Hanoi for a two-day workshop on making policies and sharing experience on gender-based violence prevention. The event with an aim towards an ASEAN without...
Japan is providing Vietnam with new loans totaling more than JPY85 billion ($781 million) for the development of port and road infrastructure in the rapidly growing Asian nation. The loans are for the development of a major deep-seaport at Lach...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health (MoH) has included a number of new vaccines in the National Expanded Program on Immunization as part of efforts to improve the efficiency of disease prevention, state media reported. According to the ministry, in the...
A 2-month-old baby in Hanoi died after getting a shot of the controversial 5-in-1 vaccine Quinvaxem, state media reported. Hoang Duc Hanh, deputy director of Hanoi’s health department, suggested that the baby died of anaphylactic shock, a serious...
No case suspected of carrying Zika virus has been detected in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), since a South Korean woman was found with the virus on her return home from the city, state media reported. The municipal Preventive Medicine Centre...
Experts at a seminar in Hanoi on May 4 voiced concern over food safety and hygiene issues, warning unsafe and substandard food can be even found at retail outlets, including supermarkets. Vu Vinh Phu, chairman of the Hanoi Supermarkets Association,...
The United Nations Human Rights Office for South-East Asia (OHCHR) last week expressed concern over the enjoyment of human rights in the country, in particular, the right to health and food, as Vietnam’s central coast suffers from the worst massive...
Vietnamese scientists and the public have raised their deep concerns about a proposed megaproject on the Red River which flows through nearly ten northern provinces, saying the project may have potential negative environmental impacts on the river...
