Vietnam’s medicine market will likely see robust growth in the next five years as the country is seeing a rising number of patients suffering from diabetes, heart disease, respiratory problem, dengue fever and hand-foot-mouth disease. As the fastest...
The Children's Hospital No.1 in Ho Chi Minh City July 7 held a meeting to review the program of heart surgery for children in the past 10 years. Since 2004 to date, the hospital has performed heart surgeries for 3,115 children including 645 serious...
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s biggest economic hub, has raised a total of 100,000 blood units year to date, accounting for 46% of this year target. The figure was announce during the Blood Drive event in HCMC on July 9, which is part of the National...
The southern province of Dong Nai plans to invest more than VND30 billion ($1.37 million) in installing six automatic wastewater monitoring stations this year, according to the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment. They will be...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has proposed to the Prime Minister to raise forest environment service fees on companies producing drinking water and hydroelectricity. The proposal was part of a draft of the amendment and revision...
Vietnamese Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has asked hospitals and provincial authorities across the country to increase management over the discharge of medical waste, state media reported on July 7. The Health Ministry also asked the local...
Vietnam expects to earn between $80 million and $100 million annually from the United Nations-funded Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) program. The sum would triple the annual official development assistance (ODA)...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will assist Vietnam in a sustainable natural resource management project until 2020. Under the project inked in Hanoi on July 9 by JICA Vietnam’s Chief Representative Mutsuya Mori and Vietnam’s...
Vietnamese workers at industrial parks (IPs) across the country are facing the same difficulties in finding suitable kindergartens for their children as the childcare centers at IPs have poor quality while public kindergartens are closed off to...
A care centre for Agent Orange (AO) children, funded by philanthropists and organizations both at home and abroad, was inaugurated in the southern province of Ninh Thuan on July 1. The centre plans to receive five AO kids this year in its trial...
