14/09/2020 08:38 AM

With the number of under-five deaths at an all-time recorded low of 5.2 million in 2019, disruptions in child and maternal health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic are putting millions of additional lives at stake

14/09/2020 08:33 AM

The Ministry of Information and Communications officially launched the national data portal https://data.gov.vn at a ceremony on August 31 in Ha Noi.

11/09/2020 08:52 AM

Health check-ups of all 1.6 lakh students, from classes I to VIII, were carried out in schools across Goa during the 2019-20 academic year, the state government has told the central government. The check-ups are carried out under the national school health programme.

10/09/2020 03:30 PM

An official of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) has suggested continuing to review and perfect the legal framework to promote trade facilitation to ensure uninterrupted circulation of goods and supply chains in the ASEAN region.

10/09/2020 03:01 PM

A draft resolution titled 'The role of women parliamentarians in securing jobs and income for women workers' was adopted on Tuesday in the Meeting of Women Parliamentarians of AIPA (WAIPA) within the framework of the General Assembly of ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA 41).

10/09/2020 02:46 PM

More than 17 million students, accounting for 95.3 per cent of total students nationwide, participated in health insurance in the 2019-20 school year.

10/09/2020 01:05 PM

The member countries of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) need to work together and give priority to developing COVID-19 vaccines and ensuring people’s right to access the vaccines in response to the adverse impacts of the pandemic, said vice chairwoman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Tòng Thị Phóng.

10/09/2020 09:36 AM

It’s been around one month since the central city of Đà Nẵng was directly hit by the COVID-19 outbreak with nearly 400 people infected with SARS-CoV-2 and 28,000 close contact cases quarantined at health centres or in their homes.