Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a decision which will deduct tax charged for foreign individuals who work for foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Vietnam. Beneficiaries would be those directly carrying out programs...
Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has authorized ministries, sectors, and localities to take measures to deal with possible cases of the Zika virus to Vietnam. The Deputy Prime Minister late last week asked the Ministry of Health (MoH) to...
Vietnam’s Central Highlands region has recorded nearly 900 cases of dengue fever since the beginning of this year, up over 20% from the same period last year, state media reported Feb 22. The Central Highlands Institute of Epidemic Prevention showed...
The Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City have taken blood samples from eight locations in the southern region to check for the Zika virus, an preemptive action deemed necessary after new infections were reported in China and Thailand. Local media...
Vietnamese Ministry of Health on Feb 23 said that the country will have additional 30,000 Pentaxim or five-in-one vaccine doses in March to meet the huge demand which was caused by shortage last year, local media reported. The Ministry said that in...
Vietnam’s health sector will continue to strengthen the supervision at ports of entry of passengers from countries and territories with the Zika virus, the General Department of Preventive Medicine (GDPM) under the Ministry of Health announced on...
Saltwater is likely to intrude as far as 70km in the Tien and Hau rivers, the two main tributaries of the Mekong River in the Mekong Delta, the National Centre for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting said. This year, salinity intrusion is likely to be...
The local authority in Vietnam’s northern province of Hung Yen should return pythons found in the area back into the wild, animal experts have said. Residents of Yen My town in Hung Yen Province had found a python stuck in a graveyard of Trai Trang...
Professor Dang Kim Chi from the Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment said based on a strategy to develop agriculture, craft villages and rural areas, the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is forecast to rise...
The second Red River Delta Climate Change Symposium, organized on Feb 25 by Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), advocated increasing investments to help the Red...
