Vietnamese authorities have called on the government to invest more in sex education and reproductive healthcare in a bid to curb the rising pregnancy rate among teenagers. The investment would help reduce abortion cases in young adults, Dr Nguyen...
A two-month-old baby girl in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap died on early July 8 after having a five-in-one Quinvaxem vaccine shot, marking the fourth death in Vietnam allegedly linked to the popular vaccine since the beginning of 2014....
Vietnam will not face shortage of vaccines for children any more as more than 300,000 doses of 5-in-1, 6-in-1 and chickenpox vaccines are scheduled to be delivered from now to September. Of the sum, two local companies will import 62,000 doses of 5-...
The Vietnam National Pediatrics Hospital expects to raise the number of robot-assisted endoscopic surgeries to 100 by the end of 2014, with the costs likely to be much lower than similar cases in developed countries. The Hanoi-based hospital on June...
Hanoi will start building a second pipeline bringing water from the Da River to the capital in September. The decision came after the existing one broke on Thursday afternoon – the eighth time since the VND1.5 trillion ($70.8 million) pipeline was...
The Ha Long Bay Management Board on July 8th held a meeting to discuss environmental protection in the face of pollution caused by various vessels operating in its waters. According to a report prepared by the board, there are 527 cruise ships...
A severe drought, the most critical in 30 years, is occurring in Vietnam’s central region, affecting the local agriculture and citizen’s livelihood, state media reported. Particularly, Binh Dinh and Phu Yen provinces are the two localities hit...
A series of earthquakes repeatedly occurred in the surrounding areas of a hydropower plant in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam with the latest on July 8 was 3.6 on the Richter scale. The earthquakes happened in Bac Tra My district which is...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) launched its first-ever Biodiversity Policy in Washington on July 8, setting forth an ambitious vision of conserving biodiversity globally, including Vietnam. Under the new policy,...
More than 200 college and university students throughout the country will receive one-year student grants of $294 from the German State of Hessen's Ministry of Science and Arts, according to a representative from the Hessen office in Hanoi. The...
