General News

  • Doctors at Viet Duc Hospital in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have successfully carried out two transplant cases for two patients, including a liver transplant for a near 60 male patient and a heart transplant for a male patient aged over 40. The...
    Monday, 14th September, 2015
  • The U.S.’s Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking to support candidates who are able to compile innovation ideas for HIV prevention in Vietnam. The support package, which goes up to 80,000 each candidate/business, will be funded...
    Monday, 14th September, 2015
  • The dengue fever outbreak in Vietnam has spread more rapidly in the past three months, with the whole country reporting over 29,600 cases as of end August, including 18 deaths, local media reported from a press conference on the issue held in Hanoi...
    Monday, 14th September, 2015
  • Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance has issued a document to collect ideas from other agencies to raise tax on water which is expected to vary between 2% and 5% from early 2016. The tax hike would be imposed on all kinds of water, regardless of bottled or...
    Monday, 14th September, 2015
  • Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City discharges between 7,000 and 7,500 tons of solid waste per day, leaving waste treatment plants in the city in overloaded situation. Up to 65% of the total volume is organic waste but households do...
    Monday, 14th September, 2015
  • A workshop on building inter-region mechanisms and policies to cope with natural disasters and climate change in the Red River delta opened in northern Ninh Binh province on September 7. Experts and managers introduced a number of recommendations...
    Monday, 14th September, 2015
  • Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the Ministry of Public Security and state agencies to verify the case in which a state-owned forestry company is said to have destroyed up to 9,000 hectares of forest. The ministry must report the...
    Monday, 14th September, 2015
  • The Vietnamese government has issued a decree to classify local universities into three categories including research-based, application-based, and experiment-based, reflecting the long-term strategy to develop research capacity of universities...
    Monday, 14th September, 2015
  • Prudential Vietnam Assurance Private Ltd (Prudential Vietnam) has joined hands with the Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients (SAPP) to provide free cancer screenings for 500 poor women in the city’s Cu Chi District, the company...
    Monday, 7th September, 2015
  • Japanese camera maker Canon has opened two new classrooms at a primary school for ethnic minority students in Vietnam’s mountainous Son La Province. Canon also donated teaching and studying equipment for teachers and students at Na Cai Primary...
    Monday, 7th September, 2015