Orbis International, non-profit dedicated to bringing quality eye health worldwide, has come back to Vietnam for the sixth time to provide a two-week intensive ophthalmic training to Vietnamese doctors in the central city of Hue. The program, which...
Vietnamese health authorities have detected an increasing number of substandard medicines over the past months, a situation that raises serious public concerns as there lacks a governing body responsible for the low-quality drugs already...
The Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) has provided 900 water tanks to 900 poor and ethnic minority households in Ninh Thuan, Khanh Hoa, Dak Lak and Phu Yen provinces in response to the region's ongoing drought. VRC also called on businesses and organizations...
Many parts of Vietnam are facing shortage of safe water, causing millions of people across the country difficulties in daily life and posing serious threats to farming, state media reported. Water shortage has also caused pollution and diseases as...
Vietnam has the fourth highest number of clean development mechanism (CDM) projects in the world and it has received the ninth highest number of certified emissions reduction (CER) units. These figures reflect the seriousness with which the Party...
Severe weather conditions, especially heatwave and storms, are likely to affect the country till October, the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has said. It said the northern and central regions would be the most affected areas....
The Vietnamese government has outlined a management plan for vocational education and training at its monthly meeting in April. Accordingly, the Ministries of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and of Education and Training (MoET) will take...
Many general school teachers and university lecturers were recently found as not having education degrees required for their jobs, while they have been working on posts for many years. The public has been stunned by the news that a lecturer at...
Sixteen peace activists from the U.S. met with representatives of authorities, organizations, and Agent Orange/Dioxin victims in central Danang city on April 27. The activity was part of their visit to Vietnam from April 19 to May 1 on the occasion...
Construction work on Vietnam’s National Bomb and Mine Action Centre commenced on April 27 following a ground-breaking ceremony at Thach Hoa commune, Thach That district, Hanoi. The 52,400 sq.m centre, which is costing VND415 billion ($19.21 million...
