The northern border province of Lao Cai is taking various measures that focus on health monitoring at border entry points to prevent the Zika virus from entering Vietnam. The provincial international medical quarantine centre has arranged body...
Vietnam has high potential to ship its agricultural products to foreign markets, especially countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, however, the export revenues will depend on whether the Vietnam-sourced farm produce can meet...
Plans to evaluate mineral reserves and marine natural resources and to help residents better adapt to climate change nationwide - especially in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region, the area predicted to suffer the most from climate change – are high...
Vietnam’s central region and Central Highlands will see even more severe droughts and water shortage this year compared to 2015, the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting has warned. Water volume in rivers in the central region and...
Workers at a bauxite factory in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Lam Dong last weekend discovered a broken pipeline that contains corrosive chemical Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH), which has been leaking and could pose serious environmental threats...
As many as 21 animals and one plant in the southern province of Kien Giang have been classified as endangered species that need to be better protected, according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. The threatened...
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is facing the most severe drought and salinization in nearly a century, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The serious conditions have occurred only once in the last 90 years, the ministry said at...
Leaders of the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) and the Vietnam Education Publishing House have recently confirmed that there is no such thing as two separate textbooks for the northern and southern parts of the country, state media...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has made changes to the university and college entrance exams for this year in order to improve the quality of the most important test for students nationwide, state media reported. First, there is...
A former software engineer who worked overseas, Khoa is now an AO victim and ailing Parkinson’s patient, turning bomb shells into unique music gifts for locals and tourists in the UNESCO-recognized Hoi An Ancient Town. Pham Nhu Khoa, 56, who lives...
