The PM has agreed to re-allocate the credit No. 3475-VN in the framework of the World Bank (WB)-funded Hồ Chí Minh City Environmental Sanitation Project.

The Health Ministry says Vietnam's population is getting older and the country should prepare its health care system to meet new challenges.

Inspired by the simple type hairpin, a trauma surgeon for the Canadian Navy has just designed a medical clamp can stop bleeding wound in seconds.

The instrument can sample SO2, NO2, NOX, NH3, and analyze air pollution level to have ways to adjust on time.

The Prime Minister has approved targets for the National Programme for Rural Water Supplies and Sanitation during the 2012-15 period.

Việt Nam is on the path to shifting its growth model to a green one to realize its goal of restructuring the economy toward being more efficient, competent as well as being capable of cutting greenhouse emission and responding to climate change.

Experts warned that with the current flood control system, HCM City may be inadequate for a disaster similar to the one in Bangkok in October, 2011.

The U.S. Navy scientists have successfully made Octavia robot firefighters. Robot Octavia will be a companion along with firefighters.

Vietnam is currently in the process of developing a "green" gross domestic product (GDP) index which is expected to be ready for use in 2014.

Indonesian pharmaceutical company PT Kimia Farma plans to open business in Vietnam in an attempt to increase its market share in Southeast Asia.