The northern mountainous province of Lao Cai has detected A/H5N6 virus in a local red pheasant farm for the first time, reported the provincial Department of Veterinary under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Deadly avian flu strain...
Hanoi’s health authorities have shut down 33 illegal drugstores in the Vietnamese capital city since the beginning of 2014, as part of efforts to tighten control over the sales of medicines, especially antibiotics. Chief Inspector of the Health...
The Ministry of Health has set up two inspections to check medical equipment at state-run hospitals in major cities, following a lot of concerns that some public hospitals in Vietnam have imported old equipments without clear origin. Inspectors will...
The Ministry of Health is keeping a close watch on 83 airline passengers who came from Ebola-hit regions recently, affirmed Tran Dac Phu, head of the ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department on August 22. Seventy-nine people, including 20...
Residents in seven districts of the central city have lacked clean water since last week as the salinity in Cau Do water plant –Danang's major water supply –reached an alarming high of 9.950mg per liter. "Reasons include climate change, forest...
Authorities in the southern province of Dong Nai have decided to stop licensing new business projects in five sectors to prevent pollution, according to the head of the local Department of Planning and Investment. Bo Ngoc Thu listed them as pulp and...
Customs officials and Environmental Police seized around a ton of ivory in northern Haiphong City. The ivory arrived last week in four containers shipped to Haiphong Port from Nigeria. Relevant documents said the containers contained peanuts. The...
Representatives from the Mekong Delta German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and Siemens gathered at a meeting on August 18 to discuss a project to enhance the region’s capacity to better cope with climate change. Addressing the working...
A 4.0-Richter scale earthquake occurred early on the morning of Aug 20 in Vietnam’s northwestern province of Son La, putting the total number of earthquake in the province at seven over the past month. The Institute of Geophysics said that the quake...
Two Vietnamese companies have got international forest management certificates in a nine-year program costing $12 million funded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ). Dak To Forestry Company in the Central Highlands...
