Vietnamese health experts have examined three students who recently came to Vietnam from their homeland Nigeria and confirmed that they had not been infected with the deadly Ebola virus that has killed over 1,000 people in West Africa, the...
Police in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi have tracked down and questioned two women who spread a canard on Facebook that a Vietnamese person had contracted the deadly Ebola virus, which has been scotched by local health authorities. The two women have been...
The World Health Organization (WHO) will provide technical support to Vietnam in testing the Ebola virus, which is a deadly virus claiming more than 1,000 deaths in four Western African so far this year. The technical support is at the proposal of...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Aug. 9 issued an urgent telegraph requesting the Ministry of Health (MoH) and other ministries and agencies to take preventative measures to minimize the risk of the Ebola virus entering Vietnam. No Ebola case has...
Over the last 3 days, some of Danang’s districts, including Hai Chau, Thanh Khe and Lien Chieu, have been suffering a shortage of tap water. According to the Danang Water Supply Company (DAWACO), the reservoir of the Bung River Hydropower Plant No 4...
Vietnam is one of the 13 countries that have tigers in the wild, yet it is facing an urgent challenge in protecting the species, which is being pushed to the brink of extinction due to economic and social pressures. A 2011 survey by the Institute of...
Several photos of the Sao La, one of the rarest and most threatened mammals on the planet, were made public in Dong Hoi City, the central province of Quang Binh on August 13 by the Viet Nature Conservation Centre and the Quang Binh provincial...
As many as 45 of the nation's 63 cities and provinces have come up with their own master plans to manage solid waste, said a senior official at a workshop held in Hanoi yesterday. In urban areas, about 31,500 tons of waste, equivalent to 84% of the...
The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi has launched the latest iteration of an English-language scholarship program for disadvantaged Vietnamese students. Under this program, 96 outstanding middle and high school students from less developed districts in the...
An exhibit showcasing hundreds of photos of Vietnam’s Agent Orange victims and historical materials on the toxic defoliant is running in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho until August 20. The exhibit, themed “Da Cam – Luong Tri va Cong Ly” (Agent...
