Health & Education

Education experts have insisted tighter inspection and management of private kindergartens is needed to shore up education quality.

As part of the national strategy on vocational training development, the HCM City authorities aim to improve facilities and teaching at 14 selected schools.

Many students in HCM City have been taking Recotus cough medicine over the past two years as a recreational drug. Some kids just took it out of curiosity and others because it gave them symptoms that were similar to illness so they could skip school.

Almost 70 Canadian institutions will join the 2013 Canada Education Week, to be held in Vietnam from October 13 to 19.

The Hanoitimes - The US Agency for International Development (USAIDS) on August 14 held a workshop on summarizing achievements after five years launching Health Policy Initiative (HPI) project.

After ten-year implemenation of the National Nutrition Strategy, Viet Nam has gained encouraging achievements in lowering malnutrition among children under five.

PM Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the Project on supporting medical waste management to mitigate the discharge of persistent organic substances and mercury, funded by the Global Environment Fund.

A national videoconference to review HIV/AIDS, drugs, prostitution prevention and control in the first half and define key tasks for the rest of the year will take place on July 8 in Ha Noi.

Viet Nam and the US reached an agreement o­n health and medical science cooperation o­n June 17 in Ha Noi.

Viet Nam Farmers’ Union (VNFU) and People’s Committee of Vinh Phu province co-organized a meeting in response to the National Anti-Tuberculosis Action Month and the World Tuberculosis Day (March 24).

Vietnam currently has more than 200,000 veterans exposed to Agent Orange/Dioxin and infected with some diseases identified by the US Medical Academy.

Vietnam needs a better integrated complex higher education system to improve training quality, a foreign education expert has suggested.

The Hanoitimes - Vietnam needs a better integrated complex higher education system to improve training quality, a foreign education expert has suggested.

The Hanoitimes - More than 450 local and foreign companies will showcase their products at the seventh Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Vietnam 2012 fair to be held at the Sai Gon Exhibition and Convention Centre in HCM City's District 7 from September 26 to 29.

Millions of people in some Asian countries, especially China o­n Jan. 22 celebrated the arrival of the Lunar New Year of the dragon with fireworks and best wishes.

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and officials of relevant departments chaired an o­nline talk via the government website to answer the public’s queries.

The Russian Academy of Sciences is interested in educational development in Vietnam, Deputy President of the academy Prof. Vladimir Fedorovich Solinov said.

Hollywood lecturer Pilar Alessandra will run a three-day course at the end of November aimed at Vietnamese people interested in writing film scripts.

The European Commission will provide 60,000 EUR from the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund to the Vietnam Red Cross for controlling hand-foot-mouth disease in the country, the European Union’s Delegation to Vietnam announced o­n August 16.

The breaking ground of road No 11 was the first step of a major and long-awaited project to build Hanoi National University.