Dengue fever has developed fast and may spread to Vietnam’s southernmost province of Ca Mau, said the provincial Department of Health. So far this year, 120 local residents have suffered from the disease, up 120% from the same period last year, the...
As many as 27 million poor Vietnamese who have no health insurance will be seriously affected by the hospital fee hike, said the Ministry of Health. Currently, about 70% of Vietnam’s population of over 90 million has health insurance, the ministry...
Southern Vietnam is facing rising risk of an outbreak of the mosquito-borne dengue fever this year because of strong increases in infection cases and abnormal weather patterns in the early months of 2015, said the Ministry of Health. The ministry’s...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung agreed with additional funding for the central province of Ninh Thuan to counter the local drought effects while working with local authorities on April 13. Since the 2014 summer-autumn crop, most local areas have...
A project to enhance the capacity of water environment management in river basins will be launched in several cities and provinces this September, as heard at a seminar in Hanoi on April 15. The project will cover the development of macro management...
Many incinerators in Vietnam are discharging high amount of dioxins into the environment, according to a new research. The research was carried out by the project titled Environmental Remediation in Dioxin Contaminated Hotspots in Vietnam organized...
People in the Central Highlands and nearby provinces are facing the worst drought of the decade, struggling to find drinking water and watching their crops and cattle die. But 400 kilometers to their north, three people drowned last month due to...
Scientists have for the first time rung the alarm over the high dioxin concentration in emissions and waste water in waste treatment plant areas. A number of waste treatment plants have been found with having much higher dioxin concentrations than...
Education for Nature-Vietnam (ENV) will team up with forest range department in Tuyen Quang Province to inspect and rescue as soon as possible a rare monkey that is being raised illegally. An ENV representative said the organisation received the...
Vietnam’s prime minister has approved a national project to reform textbooks and curricula for schools that costs about $36 million, far lower than a $1.7 billion proposal made last year, with a view to equipping students with practical learning...
