Việt Nam News

After ten years of implementing the United Nations-launched education programme for sustainable development (from 2005-2014), today education for the sustainable development (ESD) was the key of Agenda 2030 with 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs), Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Phùng Xuân Nhạ said.

Hospitals in HCM City are seeing more patients with dengue fever one month before the peak season for the disease.

 More and more young people are suffering from the effects of burnout, an expert has warned.

Doctors at Paediatrics Hospital 1 in HCM City have performed open heart surgery on a prematurely born baby weighing only 1,600 grammes.

The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bến Tre will invest more than VNĐ2.5 trillion (US$107.4 million) by 2030 to develop key aquatic species like black tiger shrimp, white-legged shrimp and tra fish, according to its People’s Committee.

A total of 280,084 people have received unemployment allowance so far this year, and more than 13,600 people were supported with vocational training.

A primary school funded by Zwilling J.A Henckels office in Việt Nam opened on June 2 in Hậu Giang Province’s Phụng Hiệp District.

The Cửa Lò Town People’s Committee in the central province of Nghệ An has developed a plan to strictly manage jet skis on Cửa Lò Beach.

Bình Thuận Police on Monday afternoon released a nationwide wanted notice for two people who had escaped from detention on Sunday.

Two elephants have been released back to the wild in the Yok Đôn National Park in the Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk, said Vũ Đức Giỏi, deputy director of the Environmental Education and Services Centre under the national park.

Lê Thanh Nam, deputy director of the Hà Nội Department of Natural Resources and Environment, talks to Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper about his agency's effort to eliminate illegal sand and pebble depots along river banks

Associate Professor Nguyễn Phương Đại Nguyên, a biology expert, spends most of his time studying new types of mushrooms to distinguish between poisonous and non-poisonous species to avoid public food poisoning.

Việt Nam has made progress in its plan to increase health insurance coverage with some 90 per cent of the country’s population participating in the scheme by the end of May, said Phạm Lương Sơn, deputy director of Vietnam Social Security (VSS).

The 1,000 hectare Ba Kích ginseng area in Đăk Mi Preventive Forest is located on a mountainside 500 metres above sea level.

For Trần Ngọc Dũng, the traditional fish sauce of VIệt Nam has not received the respect it deserves. 

After several years of using eco-friendly compressed natural gas (CNG) to fuel some of its fleet, HCM City’s public bus system is now on the verge of a fuel shortage as the only supplier plans to reduce supply, Tuổi trẻ (Youth) newspaper has reported.

Four more hospitals have been asked to join the city's tuberculosis (TB) prevention programme and treat patients with the disease.

A range of new policies are coming into effect this month, including wage increases, paternity leave for male workers and regulations relating to retirement age of the people’s public security force.