A tuberculosis prevention project was launched in the port city of Hải Phòng by the city’s Department of Health yesterday.

The National Assembly's Committee for Social Affairs held its seventh plenary session yesterday in Hà Nội to examine several issues related to the management and use of the health insurance and tobacco control funds and the implementation of national targets for gender equality.

The provinces of Long An and Đồng Nai have been unable to use high-quality research findings to boost agricultural development because they lack funds and are unable to match what farmers want, officials say.

After 10 years as a coal miner in northern Quảng Ninh Province on a monthly income of about VNĐ10million (US$435), Trần Văn Phong from northern Hải Dương Province, decided to go back to his home-town and take up a job as a delivery man.

Hoàng Đức Lợi, a farmer from Trực Cường Commune in Nam Định Province’s Trực Ninh District, felt despair when seeing his rice fields being hit by a disease that would cause him total loss this year.

universities face the shortage of official lecturers which threatens to decrease their academic quality

Six of 31 community-based organisations (CBOs) that serve people in HIV at-risk groups in the country’s southern region are becoming social enterprises, moving from free services to fee-based models, as international aid for HIV/AIDS prevention to Việt Nam will end in several years.