Along the canals andr lakes in Hà Nội and HCM City, passers-by are used to men gathering in large groups for hours with their fishing rods, patiently waiting for the fish to come.

Demographic changes in Asia and the Pacific region are occurring at unforeseen rates. An explosion in the working age population and a fall in birth rates - changes that are expected to take a century in Europe and North America - could occur here in just 30 years.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has underlined the need to identify the responsibilities of agencies concerned with food safety management, especially the role played by their chiefs.

A 12-month project to improve the governance of immunisation programme for children aged 0-23 months in Việt Nam was launched at a workshop today in Hà Nội.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc today chaired the new government’s first national meeting to tackle the heated food safety issue.

Representatives of ten Vietnamese universities and institutions in agriculture and forestry and their Australian counterparts, discussed, yesterday and today, expertise and excellence in agribusiness, education and research in Hà Nội.

Mỹ Tho - the first city in the Mekong River Delta - is recognised to meet the standards of a first-grade urban area, including standards based on population scale, population density, labour rate in non-agricultural sector, infrastructure and scenery.

Hà Nội’s environment police in co-ordination with the market management department seized 3.7 tonnes of frozen meat of unknown origin at a foodstuff shop in Thanh Trì District yesterday.

The Ministry of Health has warned that insecticide-resistant mosquitoes have appeared in the country and are liable to spread.