Text campaign launched to support TB patients

From March 8 to May 6, mobile service subscribers can text TB to 1402 to contribute VNĐ20,000 (US$0.81) per message to the fund to help TB patients overcome the disease and reduce infection risks in the community.

Hospitals urged to enhance infection control

Effective infection prevention and control play a vital role in the safety of patients and healthcare workers, but there is inadequate knowledge and awareness of it among healthcare workers, an international conference on infection control heard.

Street boys find stable jobs

Understanding the hardships faced by marginalised workers, Nguyễn Văn Phúc opened a leather workshop and welcomed his "street brothers" to work with him. Their lives have changed for the better as they learn new skills, have stable jobs to stand on their own feet and support their families.

Happy Vietnam Contest 2024 launched

The submission period for entries runs from March 20, 2024, to August 20, 2024, with each author allowed to submit no more than 10 entries.

An Giang, Cambodian province boost cooperation activities

The two sides agreed to continue promoting collaboration across the fields, including social safety and order in border areas; cross-border drug crime prevention and combat; border management and demarcation; agriculture - trade; education, culture, tourism, health care, transport, and search and repatriation of martyrs' remains, among others. 

Việt Nam, Netherlands seek nature-based measures for sustainable development

Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Lê Công Thành and Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management Mark Harbers held that both nations have similar natural environments and been hard hit by climate change, with Việt Nam’s Mekong Delta region experiencing land erosion, saline intrusion and sand depletion, and 25 per cent of the Netherlands’ areas below the sea level.

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