Vietnam passed a law relating to organ donation in 2006, however, so far the number of clinically-dead patients who have consented to donate their organs has been extremely low. The blame for such low numbers, is directed at a lack of public...
The Vietnam Red Cross Society on Mar 10 said that this year, the National Steering Committee on Voluntary Blood Donation strives to encourage people to donate blood to meet expectation of 1,282,000 blood units. To get the amount of blood donation,...
Vietnam’s outgoing Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has requested the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Vietnam Mekong River Committee to immediately send diplomatic notes to countries in upper...
Authorities and citizens of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta have been applying all possible measures and mobilizing available resources to minimize the damage caused by salinity. In Nga Nam Commune, Soc Trang Province, authorities have requested residents to...
Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat has asked local governments in the Mekong Delta to support farmers who suffered loss from ongoing drought and salt water intrusion, state media has reported. Governments should...
Admitting that the air in Hanoi has been polluted for a long time, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) said the pollution level in Hanoi must not reach levels as high as in Beijing. Aqicn.org, the website which provides...
Over 10% of Vietnamese youths, or 2.6 million people, have not graduated from elementary school, according to a national report released by the Ministry of Home Affairs last week, state media reported. The report was unveiled during a conference on...
The U.S. Embassy Hanoi on March 10 announced the 2017 Fulbright Vietnamese Scholar Program (VSP) which provides grants to Vietnamese scholars to lecture and conduct research at American institutions or universities for three months up to nine months...
A 250 kilogram general-purpose bomb from the Vietnam War was unearthed in the central province of Quang Tri on Mar 2 when local workers were digging a well. Some workers found the bomb, which has been identified as an MK82, at around three meters...
Quang Binh Province will receive financial aid of nearly VND5.4 billion ($242,000) from the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation (GWHF) for an explosive objects detection project. The project is aimed at improving the knowledge and skills of officers...
