The International Exhibition Fair for Environment and Energy Technology (ENTECH HANOI 2015) will convene from May 20 to 22 at the Hanoi International Exhibition Centre in Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi. The 6,000 square meter fair features between 160...
Vietnamese school girls and female students get around 150,000 abortion cases every year, according to the Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Population and Family Planning. The figure accounts for half of the total abortion cases in the country...
Can Tho University, a member of the ASEAN University Network (AUN), announced that its biotechnology and aquatic farming training programs have recently been accredited as AUN - Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) programs. President Ha Thanh Toan said the...
Nearly 170,000 people living in Bien Hoa and Phu Cat airports, two hotspots contaminated with dioxin in Vietnam after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, have been no longer exposed to the dioxin/orange agent risks thanks to a cleanup project funded by...
The People’s Committee of southern Tay Ninh province has devised a number of measures to reduce poverty and bring the local impoverished household rate to below 2% in 2015 from current 2.38%. The programs are designed to ensure sustainable poverty...
The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang has invested more than VND170 billion ($7.9 million) to build new boarding schools and improve access to education for ethnic students in the locality. Four high schools have been established and...
Representatives from more than 20 French non-governmental health care organisations attended a conference on France-Vietnam health-care co-operation held in the city on Saturday. More than 100 Vietnamese and French doctors and health experts...
The World Health Organization (WHO) in Vietnam said that the Southeast Asian country has seen an increasing number of tuberculosis (TB) patients, calling for sustained commitments to the fight against TB and drug resistant TB. The call was made on...
Cervical cancer is killing nine Vietnamese women every day, according to reports of a conference which was co-organized by the Institute for Reproductive and Family Health and the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation in Hanoi on Mar 18. Twenty out...
Tran Dac Phu, director of the Preventive Medicine Department under the Ministry of Health, speaks to VietnamPlus about the scarcity of some vaccines under the national immunization program. Will you please explain the supply mechanism for privately...
