More than a quarter of 170 million condoms sold in Vietnam each year are of substandard quality, the state-run Vietnam News Agency reported on April 2, citing a survey by the British company Crown Agents. Up to 26% of the amount failed to meet...
Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Viet Tien on April 4 asked other hospitals in the capital city and neighboring provinces to support the National Hospital of Pediatrics, which has been strained by overcrowding over the last two months. Meeting with...
The fifth annual meeting of the Cervical Spine Research Society – Asia-Pacific section (CSRS-AP) opened in Ho Chi Minh City on April 4, with the participation of nearly 300 experts from 20 countries across the world. President of the Spine Society...
The number of private hospitals in Vietnam, where major state-run hospitals are always overloaded, has increased by over four-fold to 170 units to date from as few as 40 units in 2004, the Ministry of Health said. The figure includes six foreign-...
Experts gathered at a seminar in Hanoi on March 31 to share experience in implementing a project to enhance gender equality and improve water, hygienic and environmental conditions in ethnic minority-inhabited areas in northern Vietnam. Co-organised...
Vietnam is experiencing serious drought, worsened by saltwater intrusion, with water levels in reservoirs at many hydropower plants much lower than previous years. Drought is hitting the central and southern regions much harder this year than in the...
Authorities in the south central province of Ninh Thuan have suspended a Vietnamese titaniuore, many objections from the public have been voiced, with the latest breaking out on March 20 when about 1,000 people from Son Hai 1 and Son Hai 2 hamlets...
Drought has damaged crops and cost the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak over VND93 billion ($4.4 million), said Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Trang Quang Thanh on April 1. The heat has depleted more...
A strategy for sustainable exploitation and use of natural resources and protection of the marine environment by 2020 with a vision to 2030 was officially announced at a ceremony in Hanoi on April 2. Speaking at the event, Deputy Minister of Natural...
The government of Vietnam has turned down a proposal by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) to lower the environment fee and natural resource tax for the Tan Tai and Nhan Co bauxite-alumina projects in the Central Highlands. Deputy Minister of...
