A first dengue fever outbreak in Cau Giay District of Hanoi affected nine people, said Hoang Duc Hanh, deputy head of the city’s Department of Health on July 23. The outbreak was first recorded in the city. Health authorities and the local...
Since early this year, Hanoi has reported 21 cases of Japanese encephalitis, 17 cases more than the same period last year. HCM City to launch large-scale Japanese encephalitis shots Biosensor detects Japanese encephalitis virus. Of the infection...
The number of children receiving hepatitis B vaccine within a day of being born has fallen sharply, said professor Nguyen Tran Hien, director of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology. In the first six months of this year, a fifth of the newborns...
Vietnam spent $963.3 million on the imports of pharmaceutical products in the first six months of this year, rising by 8.23% against the same period last year, said the Vietnam Industry and Trade Information Center. India became the biggest supplier...
A sanitation project funded by the World Bank has been put into operation in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Binh with the aim of improving the lives of local residents. The project on drainage and waste water treatment system in Dong Hoi city...
Camera traps installed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) recorded another Asiatic black bear (Ursus Thibetanus) in the central province last month, the WWF's communications department said yesterday. The discovery of the Asiatic black bear, which is...
Vietnam has suffered big casualties with 26 dead, two missing and one wounded after typhoon Rammasun washed out the Southeast Asian country last weekend, said the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control. The death-roll is likely higher, it...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has decided to set up the Vietnam-Japan University in a bid to foster mutual cultural understanding between the two countries. Costing an initial investment of $330 million, including $200 million from Japan’...
Zambia said it will support Vietnam in dealing with war aftermath, especially unexploded ordnance (UXO). The statement was made at a meeting in Hanoi on July 17 between Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Zambian Foreign...
Some 350 eye patients in remote areas of Tra Vinh province recently received free surgeries as part of the Mekong Delta locality’s progamme supporting visually impaired low-income people. Doctors from hospitals of Cau Ke and Tra Cu districts and the...
