Viet Nam lauds support from WHO

National Assembly vice chairman Tòng Thị Phóng applauded the World Health Organisation (WHO)’ role in implementing healthcare programmes to provide better health and life quality of people in Việt Nam and world-over.

Schools to teach Russian, Chinese from 2017

Vietnamese students will have better opportunities to learn foreign languages other than English with a range of pilot programmes by the Ministry of Education (MoE) being introduced this year.

Central seafood remains difficult to sell

Seafood companies and traders in four central provinces affected by the Formosa toxic incident have asked management agencies to quickly take samples of massive frozen fish inventories for safety tests.

Poor conditions in VN sex work: ILO

Working in an industry which is not legal, most sex workers in Việt Nam face poor and unsafe workplace conditions, according to a new International Labour Organisation (ILO) Việt Nam study.

Formosa-contaminated fish destroyed in Quảng Trị

The central province of Quảng Trị will dump about 70 tonnes of fish harvested after Formosa released toxic waste water into the ocean bordering Hà Tĩnh, Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên - Huế late in April.

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