Many medical workers quit their jobs in State facilities and moved to private health centres, especially in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, leaving a big challenge for the health sector. Medical workers from the central-southern province of Binh Dinh express their determination as they head to HCM City to support COVID-19 prevention and control.(Photo: VNA) Nearly 9,400 medical...

The Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee on July 11 received 20 billion VND (856,500 USD) donated by Masterise Group for building 400 houses for poor and disadvantaged families in nine localities. At the hand-over ceremony (Photo: VNA) Representing the donor, Managing Director of Masterise Homes Phan Thi Anh Tuyet said the donation responded to the VFF Central...

Vietnam has successfully controlled the rapid population growth, maintained a reasonable population size, and kept the total replacement fertility rate for nearly 15 years, as results of population work over the past six decades. Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) Notably, the average life expectancy of Vietnamese people increased by 33.7 years, from 40 in 1960 to 73.7 in 2020. The...

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) will exert efforts to create a modern and safe national digital infrastructure, and a new space for digital economic growth, and developing e-government towards the building of a digital government. Ho Chi Minh City Urban Traffic Management and Operation Centre (Photo: VNA) The goal is set in the ministry’s action plan...

The Ministry of Health is urging the acceleration of the vaccination of the third and fourth shots, given continuously complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in many European countries related to variants BA.4 and BA.5. Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) According to the ministry, in Vietnam, the pandemic has basically been under control across the country, but the two above-mentioned...

Quang Nam authorities and the Vietnam Administration of Forestry has set a goal to cultivate as much as 200,000ha of panax ginseng and promote it to the international market. Chairman of the Quang Nam People's Committee Phan Viet Cuong examines the quality of panax ginseng grown at the Tra Linh Medicine Station. (Photo: baodantoc.vn) According to Tran Quang...

The Embassy of Japan in Vietnam has announced it will open a condolence book for late Prime Minister Abe Shinzo from 9am to 5:15pm on July 11 and 12. People lay flowers in memory of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo in Nara, Japan. (Photo: Kyodo/VNA) The venue will be the embassy's headquarters at 27 Lieu Giai street, Ba Dinh...

The Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) has been developing and perfecting appropriate and effective solutions, and coordinating with socio-political organisations in promoting digital transformation in all its subsidiaries. Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Under a resolution on implementing digital transformation in the group to 2025, with a vision to 2030 issued in February this year, PetroVietnam has determined...

While any mother can experience postpartum depression, a large number of cases went undiagnosed until they turned severe. A medical worker takes care of a mother and her newborn child. (Photo: VNA) Doctors recommend that families should pay attention, provide care and seek prompt treatment to help mothers make a full recovery from the disorder. Khanh (not her real...

More than 86.8 million people, or 88.99 percent of the population, had been covered with health insurance by the end of June, according to the Vietnam Social Security (VSS). Many hospitals nationwide have been equipped with advanced machinery to serve medical examination and treatment. (Photo: VNA) Addressing a conference on July 8, VSS Deputy General Director Dao Viet Anh...