Việt Nam launches national digital map data platform and humanitarian information system

The Việt Nam Digital Map Data Platform (Vmap) and the Humanitarian Information System (iNhandao) were launched at a ceremony on Tuesday in Hà Nội.

Mekong Delta to face earlier, more severe salinity, droughts

Salinity and droughts will come earlier and be more severe in the 2019-20 dry season than the previous year in the Mekong Delta, according to Hoàng Phúc Lâm, Vice Director of the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Buddhist monks, followers register for blood, organ donation More than 500 Buddhist monks, nuns and followers registered for blood donation while 150 people put their names on a list of organ donors at a festival in Hà Nội yesterday. 

HCM City Red Cross unit targets supporting 10,000 organisations, individuals1

The HCM City chapter of the Vietnam Red Cross Society will seek support from local and international organisations, enterprises and individuals to help 10,000 charity organisations, poor and orphaned people and Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin victims and people with disabilities this year.

Floods leave 19 dead or missing in northern, central provinces

Floods and landslides in northern mountainous and central provinces have killed 15 people and left four missing, along with heavy losses in property, according to the Central Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control.

Stopping the waste of food1

A lot of good food that could feed hungry people goes to waste.That is what Nguyễn Tuấn Khởi believes. He runs a project that collects food that has not been sold.

Charity fights food waste in Việt Nam

Ranked second for food waste in the region, Việt Nam also has a high number of hungry people. Foodbank Vietnam is a non-profit organisation looking for solutions. Mai Phương reports.

Flood victims receive relief funds

The Vietnam Red Cross Society yesterday received emergency aid from both domestic and foreign individuals and organisations to help households affected by the recent floods in the northern part of the country.

Various groups join hands in flood response

Various organisations from the central to the grassroots level have joined hands to alleviate the suffering caused by a flood that inundated two provinces last Saturday night.

Programme provides health care to 6 million people

A community health care programme has provided free checkups, treatment and medicines to more than 6 million people in nearly 13,500 campaigns nationwide, heard a conference held in Hà Nội on Thursday to review its outcomes.