Provinces and cities across Vietnam are striving hard to contain a potentially complicated recurrence of deadly avian influenza viruses, according to the Preventive Medicine Department under the Health Ministry. According to initial reports, flocks...
Japanese experts will likely come to Vietnam in mid-May to help transfer technologies for producing combined vaccines against measles and rubella for a long-term working period, state media reported. Accordingly, around 13 Vietnamese...
Over a period of ten years, more than 300 businesses responsible for polluting the environment have been taken to task, but just as fast up to 1,000 new ones have sprung up. Bui Cach Tuyen, deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, said...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have decided to invest more than VND13 trillion ($619 million) to clear up the environmental pollution in 44 craft villages from now to 2020. The project will benefit the craft villages on processing...
The school enrolment season started earlier in Quang Tri Province to enable many poor 12th-grade students to compete for free entrance to a vocational high school in Danang. The nation's official examination for vocational high schools and...
The country should revise the 2006 Law on Vocational Training in order to get private sectors to invest more in this practice and attract more students to trade jobs, said Duong Duc Lan, Director of the General Department for Vocational Training....
Sappers from the Thai Binh Provincial Military High Command have succeeded in disabling a 500-pound bomb. The bomb was unearthed by an excavator whilst building a sea dyke in Thai Thuong commune, Thai Thuy district, northern Thai Binh province on...
A mobile sapper team searching for bombs, landmines and other unexploded ordinance in northern Quang Tri province has discovered 114 bombs with their fuses intact. These bombs had been disposed of at a landfill in Lao Bao town by traders of metal...
The Vietnamese government has provided welfare support for over 200,000 Agent Orange/dioxin (AO) victims on a monthly basis. The national steering committee on overcoming consequences of toxic chemicals/dioxin (Steering Committee 33) told a press...
Capital for a dioxin remediation project in Vietnam’s central city of Danang has reached $84 million, doubling the initial estimated figure for the first project on cleaning up dioxin residue left from the Vietnam War. The figure may become...
