In 2016, 0.4 per cent of the Asia-Pacific region’s GDP was lost to natural disasters, with some 11.2 million people displaced. By the year 2030, GDP losses are estimated hit 1 per cent.
Many district preventive health centres and ward and commune health stations in HCM City have run out of Quinvaxem vaccine for infants against five common, potentially fatal diseases.
Farmers in Đồng Tháp Province’s Châu Thành District, the largest longan cultivation area in the province, are using advanced farming techniques to improve the quality of its exports.
The Catholic committee in HCM City will continue promoting charitable activities, education, healthcare, contributing to the city’s socio-economic development, the chairman of the Committee for Solidarity of Vietnamese Catholics (CSVC) in HCM City said on Wednesday.
The central city officially introduced the Sakura-Olympia bilingual School, a combined education system of kindergarten, junior and high school, in the 2018-19 school year.
Nhân Chính Park, covering a total area of 13.2ha in Hà Nội’s two districts of Thanh Xuân and Cầu Giấy, has finally opened to the public more than a year behind schedule.
Eleven households – a total of 43 people – in Mỹ Hòa Hưng Commune in the southern province of An Giang were urgently evacuated from areas prone to erosion, reported online dantri.com.vn.
A temporary road, worth VNĐ4.5 billion (US$193,500), will be urgently built to serve travelling demand of vehicles via a section of Nội Bài – Lào Cai Expressway in the northern mountainous province of Yên Bái’s Trấn Yên District.
The Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam, in one month, collected fines totalling nearly VNĐ18 billion (US$773,000) for traffic violations, reported online newspaper baotintuc.vn.
As many as 62 buffaloes and cows have died so far this year due to hemorrhagic septicemia in Con Cuông District, the central province of Nghệ An.
The Hà Nội Department of Transport has rearranged traffic on several roads around Hoàn Kiếm district to reduce traffic jams in the area.
Việt Nam has instituted many screening programmes for diabetes and pre-diabetes as part of efforts to reduce the rate of undiagnosed diabetics and protect people from cardiometabolic disorders which are intrinsically linked with diabetes and a major cause of morbidity and mortality world-wide, according to experts.
Mental health issues are widespread and increasing in Việt Nam, particularly among young people, experts said.
Trang Tuyết Ngà and her friends created affordable locally made medical equipment for neonatal intensive care that already saved the lives of 1.4 million babies.
Accelerating the development of the private sector and expanding domestic private finance are key priorities for Việt Nam to meet the financial requirements of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report launched yesterday reveals.
The Korean Navy ship, Munmu the Great, with 302 crew members began their three-day friendly visit to the city yesterday, aiming at promotion relationship between the two navies.
Việt Nam is under risk of an African Swine Flu outbreak, prompting careful monitoring of pig farms for signs of infection and prevention of smuggling of untested pork, said experts at a conference on the disease held in HCM City on Tuesday.
A 26-year-old police offiicer has died in the Mekong Delta province of Vĩnh Long after drinking a massive overdose of liquid crystal meth.
Vietnamese and Japanese city administrators met at a conference held over the past two days to discuss the issues of administrative management that localities in the two countries encounter.
The Ministry of Health is collaborating with The World Health Organization (WHO) to monitor MERS and produce efficient solutions to prevent the disease after South Korea recorded a case last Saturday.
