Health & Education

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a wholly foreign invested project to build Tokyo Vietnam Medical University in the northern province of Hung Yen.

They included school lunches, and nutrition clubs and health counselling for mothers with babies, pregnant women, students, workers and obese and diabetic patients.

None of the three solutions suggested by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) relating to the national high school exam organization has achieved a broad consensus among the public. Some educators have pointed out that all three are problematic.

Hai Phong has planned to earmark about 3.6 billion VND (169,000 USD) for a large-scale vaccination campaign against measles and rubella for children aged between 1 and 14.

Ebola virus disease (EVD) spreads in the community through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals.

Among school children, the rate also almost doubled from 11.6 percent in 2002 to 21.9 percent in 2009.

The exhibition aims to raise public awareness on the importance of breastfeeding to help children grow physically and mentally well.

Nearly 100 domestic and foreign scholars are discussing tertiary education reform at a conference that opened in Ho Chi Minh City on July 31.

Nearly 200 delegates from universities around the globe are gathering at the Vietnam Education Dialogue 2014: Higher Education Reforms (VED 2014) in HCM City from July 31 to August 1.

The onset of the disease shows initial symptoms of high fever, headache, feeling sick, vomiting, seizures, conscious disorder and coma. The disease is dangerous because of its high fatality rate.

To raise funds in support of needy children, over 600 Vietnamese university students will take part in a run for charity at Hanoi’s National My Dinh stadium on August 17 .

The project also provided eye check-ups for some 40,000 students at 56 secondary schools and presented 4,000 pairs of spectacles for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Under the project, Japan’s leading Waseda Health Sciences Education Corporation and a number of Japanese organisations and individuals will fund construction of the not-for-profit university.

Despite the conflict ending in 1971 – four decades on – Vietnamese are still suffering from the devastating effects of Agent Orange sprayed on crops, plants and trees by US military forces.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday met Professor Ngo Bao Chau, the first Vietnamese to win the Fields Medal, the highest professional honour a mathematician can attain, and the Education Dialogue Group.

Educators discussed three methods for organising the 2015 national high school exam at a meeting hosted by the Ministry of Education and Training yesterday in the capital.

Viral hepatitis is a group of infectious diseases known as hepatitis A, B, C, D and E, causing acute and chronic liver diseases and killing around 1.4 million people each year.

Nearly 200,000 children from 1-14 years old in the northern province of Ha Nam will be vaccinated against measles-rubella as part of the 2014-2015 vaccination scheme announced by the provincial Health Department on July 28.

Contrary to all predictions, only 15 percent of those polled by VietNamNet say they agree with the Ministry of Education and Training’s (MOET) plan to organize a single national exam instead of the current high school finals and university entrance exam.

The professor wrote a book on spy Pham Xuan An, helping Vietnamese and American easily access to the information about him.