Health & Education

​Hanoi’s students won 29 individual and 14 team prizes at the Bulgaria International Mathematics Competition 2018 (BIMC 2018) in Bulgaria from July 1-6.

Doctors at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City have carried out kidney removal from living donors using robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery.

Hanoi Mayor Nguyen Duc Chung suggested that Siemens Healthineers set up headquarter in the city during his working trip to Europe.

Hanoi considers supplying clean water to local people as a way to improve living standards. Thus, the city is working to realize its target of making tap water drinkable by 2020.

The Hanoi People`s Committee has recently held a conference to deploy HIV/AIDS prevention to achieve ambitious goals in HIV/AIDS prevention set by the United Nations by 2020.

Vietnam and France have signed many cooperation agreements in healthcare during a recent working visit to France by Vietnamese Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien at the invitation of French Minister of Solidarities and Health Agnès Buzyn.

Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) on June 17 inaugurated its third vaccination center at 243A De La Thanh street in Hanoi.

Nguyen Thanh Liem, Director of the Stem Cell and Gene Technology Institute at Vinmec International Hospital, has become the first Vietnamese doctor to receive the 2018 Nikkei Asia Prize in the science and technology category.

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Education is increasing in importance around the world. KinderWorld Education Group has made much effort to bring this innovative model to Vietnam.

A Vietnamese student team from RMIT Vietnam was awarded the first runner-up in the final round of the 11th edition of 2018 HSBC/HKU Asia Pacific Business Case Competition in Hong Kong.

Hanoi Department of Health has recently issued a plan on inspecting public administration reform in 2018. The inspection period will start from July to December this year.

Among the top 1,000 universities in the world by the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City has entered the 701st-750th category and Vietnam National University-Hanoi is in the 801st‑1,000th group.

Up to 330 Vietnamese students have completed a short-term training course on agriculture carried out by the Arava International Center for Agriculture Training (AICAT) of Israel.

Vietnam has not recorded any Ebola infections to date, Deputy Head of the Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department Dang Quang Tan has announced.

Vietnamese students spend US$3-4 billion Vietnamese a year on overseas study, which is a huge amount of money, said the Minister of Education Phung Xuan Nha at the question-and-answer session of the 14th National Assembly’s fifth plenum in Hanoi on June 6.

The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has recommended the public some measures to prevent A/H1N1 influenza after 16 people recently caught the virus from a patient at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tu Du Hospital.

Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training Le Ngoc Quang gave a report on results of the 2017-2018 school year and preparations for the next school year at the recent press conference held by the Hanoi Party Committee’s Commission for Education and Communication.

The Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training, the Thanh Nien (Youth) Newspaper and Thien Long Corporation has recently organized a ceremony to launch the 2018 Exam Season Support Campaign at the Hanoi Medical University.

Building and maintaining national standard schools is considered as key mission to improve the quality of education and training.

Vietnam and Australia have room for further cooperation in education.