Words on the Street: Vietnam's E-Cigarette ban sparks debate
Welcome back to Words on the Street, where we explore the stories that influence discussions and spark arguments on Hanoi's bustling streets.
10:53, 2024/12/09
Hanoi to ensure medicine supply during Tet holiday
Plans are being drawn up to stockpile medicines in hospitals and a disease control center in Hanoi.
21:58, 2024/11/13
Hanoi's journey to becoming a global learning city
Hanoi has the largest education network in the country, with 2,913 schools, 2.3 million students, and nearly 130,000 teachers
22:39, 2024/10/25
Hanoi 10th graders win Asia's largest business simulation competition
The success is a testament to the strength and determination of Hanoi's students in international competition.
12:00, 2019/02/23
AI application to create evolution in healthcare sector
In 2018, AI market in healthcare reached more than US$2 billion, over US$36 billion in 2025, accounting for 20% of the entire AI market.
08:15, 2019/02/23
Big players ignite new race in Vietnam’s health-care market
UK-based research firm BMI forecasts that healthcare spending will grow to US$22.7 billion in 2021, recording a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of approximately 12.5 percent from 2017 to 2021.
17:19, 2019/02/19
Central Pediatrics Hospital to have branch in Hanoi outskirts
The hospital subsidiary with complete infrastructure and advanced modern technical equipment will provide health examination services for children in Hanoi and surrounding areas.
23:06, 2019/02/18
Vietnam successfully performs first-ever robotically-assisted cranial nerve surgery
With the support of the navigation system, neurotic robots and Professor Amin Kassam, a three-member team of the hospital successfully removed the tumor in the patient’s brain.
16:14, 2019/02/18
Vietnam successfully performs first-ever blowout fracture endoscopic surgery
The patient’s eye socket was recreated by the surgeon with an oral, muscle and nerve endoscope. Eye socket floor is reconstructed with artificial material.
17:35, 2019/02/15
Vietnam launches national plan for bird flu prevention and control
The Vietnamese government needs to build chains of poultry production and safe poultry products to meet domestic consumption and poultry export.
08:04, 2019/02/15
Vietnam-Mongolia bond tied through legacy
The Mongolian people inherit from the legacy and make efforts to build up the warm bilateral relations.
15:03, 2019/02/14
Spring Book Festival 2019 in Hanoi to feature 300,000 books
The event is aimed at honoring the cultural values and tradition of reading by showcasing meaningful and interesting materials for book lovers and providing opportunities for publishers to introduce new books directly to readers.
14:54, 2019/02/13
Vietnam to apply electronic health records from March 1
The electronic health records store the content of the paper health file and the digital signature of person who enters the data.
18:42, 2019/02/05
Caring for elderly remains big challenge for Vietnam
Vietnam’s population is greying as the percentage of over 60s is set to jump to 21% of the population in 2040, up from 12% today.
13:25, 2019/02/03
Hanoi leads the country in number of national excellent students
Hanoi Amsterdam Gifted High School has 84 excellent students with 11 first prizes.
15:32, 2019/01/25
Over 70% of Hanoi’s pupils join school milk project
Director of Hanoi Department of Education and Training Chu Xuan Dung highly valued the participation of Hanoi’s localities and schools in actively implementing the school milk project.
16:58, 2019/01/24
Vietnam ministries move to ensure security in hospitals amid rising violence
In cases of threats against medical staff, patients and relatives of patients, medical facilities should report the assaults to police via hotline 113 and the hotline of local police.
16:50, 2019/01/23
Vietnam spends 5.8% of GDP on education
The Vietnamese government has also approved 530 joint training programs between local and foreign universities.
13:07, 2019/01/17
Made-in-Vietnam flu vaccines licensed for commercial use
The successful production of the seasonal influenza vaccine is significant because Vietnam is a country with a high number of people with influenza each year.
16:01, 2019/01/10
Over 300,000 foreigners seek medical treatment in Vietnam in 2018
Many foreign patients chose Vietnam for their treatment because of good quality service and low cost.
14:57, 2018/12/31
Vietnam’s health sector names nine outstanding events in 2018
For the first time, Vietnamese experts successfully performed lung transplantation and simultaneously took six organs from a brain-dead donor for five patients on December 12 in Vietnam-Germany Hospital.
15:49, 2018/12/25
Vietnamese doctors successfully perform simultaneous organ transplants
This is the first time Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital has performed a lung transplant technique from brain-dead donor and it is also the first time that Vietnam has implemented six complicated organs simultaneously.
22:56, 2018/12/19
Hospital quality needs to be measured by patients’ satisfaction
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam encouraged healthcare staffs together with the people through information technology tools to contribute to improving hospital quality.
22:56, 2018/12/19
Vietnam to launch 5-in-1 ComBE Five vaccine nationwide late December
ComBE Five is a “five-in-one” vaccine that can help fight against five potentially fatal diseases affecting infants - diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenza type B.