Ho Chi Minh City, the most populous city of Vietnam, will set up 13 new satellite hospitals in several southern provinces and cities in a move to ease the severe overload at the city’s hospitals. This is part of a national plan to build satellite...
Work on HCM City's water drainage system has helped to stem flooding this year, but experts warn that more floods of a larger scale could reoccur if serious measures are not taken. According to the city's People's Committee, for the first six months...
Vietnam needs to build a comprehensive strategy to death with coastal erosion, which results from rising sea levels caused by climate change, according to experts. At a recent meeting in Hanoi, Le Van Cong, deputy head of the Vietnam Administration...
Representatives from Vietnam and several Asian countries will attend a regional conference on disaster risk reduction and early warning system in Hanoi on July 25-26. The participants include non-governmental organizations and researchers from India...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Dung has called for a comprehensive restructuring of the national education system to make it more regionally competitive by 2030, local media reported. The government chief made the request during a meeting of the National...
The U.S. Army has joined a two-week training course to help Vietnamese troops safely remove post-war bombs, mines and unexploded ordnances (UXOs) as well as provide emergency aid to victims hurt by UXOs. The course, as part of the cooperation...
Seed to Table, a Japanese non-governmental organization, reviewed the one-year implementation of its project on improving livelihoods for poor households in the southern province of Ben Tre on July 19. The $45,000 project, financed by Japan’s...
Vietnam’s Central Highlands provinces have so far invested nearly VND999 billion (around $47 million) in building 43,345 houses for poor ethnic minority people, a move to help them stabilize their lives and develop production. Of the total, over...
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will continue to cooperate with Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in inspecting local markets to detect the deadly H7N9 bird flu, said an official from the world agency....
Poor reproductive education has led to rampant abortion in Vietnam, ranking the country 5th worldwide in abortion rate. Of 300,000 abortion cases among women aged between 15 and 19, high school pupils and students make up 70%. “This is the result of...
