General News

  • Vietnam has so far recorded no cases related to Zika virus, which is now affecting 54 countries and territories worldwide, the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Medicine Department announced on March 7. However, taking into account the virus spread in...
    Monday, 14th March, 2016
  • The Department of Medicine under Vietnam’s Ministry of Health said that there will be 160,000 doses of meningococcal vaccine available in April. The volume includes 60,000 doses of Polysaccharide meningococcal A+C for children from two years old and...
    Monday, 14th March, 2016
  • Application of advanced mini techniques can reduce post-operative care and pain compared to traditional methods, doctors said at Binh Dan Hospital’s biennial conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on Mar 5. Laparoscopic surgery is used in appendectomy...
    Monday, 14th March, 2016
  • Vietnam passed a law relating to organ donation in 2006, however, so far the number of clinically-dead patients who have consented to donate their organs has been extremely low. The blame for such low numbers, is directed at a lack of public...
    Monday, 14th March, 2016
  • The Vietnam Red Cross Society on Mar 10 said that this year, the National Steering Committee on Voluntary Blood Donation strives to encourage people to donate blood to meet expectation of 1,282,000 blood units. To get the amount of blood donation,...
    Monday, 14th March, 2016
  • Vietnam’s outgoing Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has requested the Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Vietnam Mekong River Committee to immediately send diplomatic notes to countries in upper...
    Monday, 14th March, 2016
  • Authorities and citizens of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta have been applying all possible measures and mobilizing available resources to minimize the damage caused by salinity. In Nga Nam Commune, Soc Trang Province, authorities have requested residents to...
    Monday, 14th March, 2016
  • Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat has asked local governments in the Mekong Delta to support farmers who suffered loss from ongoing drought and salt water intrusion, state media has reported. Governments should...
    Monday, 14th March, 2016
  • Admitting that the air in Hanoi has been polluted for a long time, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MONRE) said the pollution level in Hanoi must not reach levels as high as in Beijing. Aqicn.org, the website which provides...
    Monday, 14th March, 2016
  • Over 10% of Vietnamese youths, or 2.6 million people, have not graduated from elementary school, according to a national report released by the Ministry of Home Affairs last week, state media reported. The report was unveiled during a conference on...
    Monday, 14th March, 2016