The Health Department in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on June 4 started upgrading an obstetrics hospital with a total investment of VND325 billion ($15.47 million), state media reported Wednesday. Under the project scheduled for completion in...
The number of male sex workers in Vietnam has been increasing, triggering concerns over sexually-transmitted infections (STIs) and transmission of HIV/AIDS, said Donn Colby, medical director at Harvard Medical School AIDS Initiative in Vietnam (...
The Vietnamese government is working on a plan to offer more incentives to foreign investors, including South Korean firms, in the field of environment and water supply and drainage, according to the Ministry of Construction. The information was...
Fast growing cities in the East Asia-Pacific region, including in Vietnam, are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters due to poor planning, the World Bank (WB) said in its recent report. Investing in the natural disaster readiness,...
A conference to review how environmental protection models work in residential areas across the country took place in the central city of Hue on June 4, in response to World Environment Day which falls on June 5. The organizer, Vietnam...
Most Vietnamese lawmakers said that a fund should be established to support natural disaster prevention and response but some concerns were raised over the management and transparency of the fund. The information was released at a working session of...
Vietnamese students won two gold medals at the 2013 Asia-Pacific Mathematical Olympiad for Primary Schools (APMOPS) in Singapore on June 1, winning Vietnam a place in the top ten nations for the first time. Among the ten Vietnamese candidates at the...
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has tasked the Ministry of Education and Training to coordinate with the association of non-public universities and colleges to organise a conference to review 20-year development of non-public education system in the...
Hundreds of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin victims and their families have successfully overcome difficulties in their lives thanks to the support of the Association for Victims of AO/Dioxin of southern Binh Phuoc province. The fact was mentioned by...
Doctors of Fortis Hoan My Saigon Hospital last weekend gave free medical check-ups and medicine to 400 poor patients in Long Thoi village in HCM City's Nha Be District. The doctors will again give free medical check-ups and medicine to...
