The dengue fever outbreak in Vietnam has spread more rapidly in the past three months, with the whole country reporting over 29,600 cases as of end August, including 18 deaths, local media reported from a press conference on the issue held in Hanoi...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance has issued a document to collect ideas from other agencies to raise tax on water which is expected to vary between 2% and 5% from early 2016. The tax hike would be imposed on all kinds of water, regardless of bottled or...
Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City discharges between 7,000 and 7,500 tons of solid waste per day, leaving waste treatment plants in the city in overloaded situation. Up to 65% of the total volume is organic waste but households do...
A workshop on building inter-region mechanisms and policies to cope with natural disasters and climate change in the Red River delta opened in northern Ninh Binh province on September 7. Experts and managers introduced a number of recommendations...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Ministry of Public Security and state agencies to verify the case in which a state-owned forestry company is said to have destroyed up to 9,000 hectares of forest. The ministry must report the...
The Vietnamese government has issued a decree to classify local universities into three categories including research-based, application-based, and experiment-based, reflecting the long-term strategy to develop research capacity of universities...
Prudential Vietnam Assurance Private Ltd (Prudential Vietnam) has joined hands with the Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients (SAPP) to provide free cancer screenings for 500 poor women in the city’s Cu Chi District, the company...
Japanese camera maker Canon has opened two new classrooms at a primary school for ethnic minority students in Vietnam’s mountainous Son La Province. Canon also donated teaching and studying equipment for teachers and students at Na Cai Primary...
Three Vietnamese people have died from meningococcal meningitis, a serious bacterial infection that results in swelling and irritation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, since the beginning of this year, the Hanoi Moi newspaper...
Vietnamese hospitals are losing a large number of patients who prefer the bedside manner and abilities of foreign doctors. While Vietnamese doctors' skills are said to be equal to most foreign doctors, every year about 40,000 Vietnamese spend nearly...
