All 63 provinces and close to 9,000 staff have been coached since the country launched the early essential newborn care (EENC) programme in 2015. In addition, around 78 per cent of term babies receive skin-to-skin contact and are exclusively breastfed in the immediate newborn period.
Under the hot noon sun, more than 20 women at Nguyễn Thị Thu Hà’s sewing workshop seem oblivious of the sweat pouring down their faces as they work at their sewing machines.
The Central Steering Committee on Disaster Prevention has ordered hydropower companies to discharge water to decrease the water level.
Those having income below VNĐ10 million (US$450) per month will benefit from the new personal income tax that has been proposed by the Ministry of Finance as they will have to pay a lower amount for income tax.
Vietnamese universities should offer majors in data science to meet the demands of the fourth industrial revolution, Hồ Tú Bảo, a professor at the John von Neumann Institute under Việt Nam National University-HCM City, has said.
The Hà Nội Superior People’s Court on Thursday held an appeal hearing of Giang Kim Đạt and three accomplices in a major corruption case that involves bankrupt State-owned firm Vinashin Ocean Shipping Ltd, or Vinashinlines.
A blood donation drive will be organised later this month by the Indian Business Chamber in Việt Nam in collaboration with the city’s Blood Transfusion Haemotology Hospital.
Police in the Central Highlands province of Lâm Đồng found two households in Đà Lạt City growing nine marijuana plants that collectively weigh around 25.5kg.
Two general departments have been set up to help the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) deal with natural disasters and issues related to irrigation.
Five people were killed and six others seriously injured when a passenger bus collided with a tractor in the southern central province of Bình Định on Wednesday night.
Bacterial infection has caused the mass deaths of grouper fishes being bred in cages in the central Quảng Ngãi Province’s Bình Sơn District, according to the provincial animal husbandry and veterinary department.
Hundreds of extra buses and trains will be used to meet increasing travel demand during the upcoming three-day holiday for National Day (September 2).
The Vietnam Press Museum has been set up with Trần Thị Kim Hoa, head of the management board for component projects of the Vietnam Press Museum project, appointed as its Director, according tothe Vietnam Journalists’ Association (VJA).
Authorities in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of An Giang on Tuesday (August 15) discovered a newly eroded area extending 270 metres along the Hậu River on An Thạnh Islet.
Sầm Sơn City in the north central province of Thanh Hóa is set to become a second-tier urban area by 2025 and the first-tier coastal tourist urban area of world class by 2040 under the province’s master plan.
Hà Nội administration has yet to revoke any metre of its land after 9 State agencies moved from their old headquarter in downtown districts to new headquarter in suburban districts for 15 years.
A new school year’s coming, the market for textbooks, reference books and study kits has begun to take off a few months ago, but functional forces have discovered and seized many cases relating in illegal printing copies of book.
People in coastal Hải Ninh Commune, Quảng Ninh District in the central province of Quảng Bình mostly earn their living at sea.
Hà Nội and HCM City step up efforts to spread awareness and have residents participate in tackling an outbreak that has severely strained their healthcare facilities.
Hồ Thị Kim Thoa was dismissed from her position as Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade under a decision issued by the Prime Minister on August 16.
