Roughly 15% of Vietnam’s population has mental disorders, statistics showed at an international forum in Hanoi on April 14-15. The disorders include schizophrenia, epilepsy, depression, amnesia, alcohol and drug addiction, and adolescent behavior...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged ministries and agencies to take bold measures to prevent a measles epidemic after 108 babies died of measles and cross infection. The dispatch was made after the disclosure of the deaths following a...
Vietnam needs to soon build a strong and effective legal framework for preventing water pollution as the problem is getting out of hand, experts warned at an international workshop in Hanoi on April 17. The function drew more than 100 experts from...
After exhausting the water flow of many rivers and badly affecting the lives of local people by building hydropower plants, authorities in Vietnam have recently pledged to prioritize water for people over the plants. The promise was given last week...
Vietnam needs an estimated $270 million to clean up dioxin residue at Bien Hoa airport in the southern province of Dong Nai, the most contaminated dioxin hotspot in the Southeast Asian country, an official said. The money is required to treat...
Foreign organizations have financed roughly $1 billion for climate change response programs in Vietnam, one of five countries hardest hit by such environmental problem. The organizations include the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the...
Vietnam’s lawmakers have raised questions on the feasibility of an education reform project costing roughly VND34.3 trillion ($1.64 billion) in the next decade submitted by the Ministry of Education and Training on the ground that the project is too...
Pham Ngoc Phuong, a spokesman for the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), explained how over VND34 trillion ($1.61 billion) will be spent on education reform. According to Phuong, they will need about VND105 billion to creating new content...
A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Defense Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh paid a visit to Australia to strengthen bilateral cooperation in overcoming the consequences of unexploded ordnance (UXO) left from wars. The visit from...
At the 11th art exchange titled “One Heart – One World” will be held and broadcast live on the national television on April 13 in honor of the Vietnam Day of People with Disabilities on April 18, in which jobs for people with disabilities will be...
