As ads for fake beauty products proliferate on social media, Vietnam's Ministry of Health is taking action to protect consumers and crack down on online counterfeit cosmetics.

All students are advised to stay indoors this Saturday due to the large radius of the super typhoon's path.

The number of school-age children in the capital city is growing faster and faster.

​According to a recent decision by the Japanese Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, Foreign certified professional caregivers, including those from Vietnam will be allowed to work at patients’ homes from April, 2017.

As many as 80 percent of the 40,000 children born in the Hanoi Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital every year receive pre-birth and post-birth screening for deformities detection, according to a senior official of the hospital.

A set of 40 standardised menus, which are both nutritious and delicious, have been created to ensure the good health and stature of primary pupils in Hanoi.

Hanoi’s Health Department has launched three hotlines to receive feedback from people and organisations.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has cut a ribbon to inaugurate the new headquarters of the Hanoi School of Public Health in Bac Tu Liem District, Hanoi.

On July 19, Vietnamese Ministry of Public Health and the Australian Embassy in Vietnam jointly organised a workshop in Hanoi, drawing many international medical experts and representatives from Australia’s leading healthcare technology firms.

The Capital of Hanoi will invest over 160 billion VND in an initiative to the early detection of birth defects for the period of 2016-2020.

The first national simulation training lab for anesthesia and intensive care has been inaugurated in Hanoi.

According to Deputy Head of Hnaoi’s Population and Family Planning Department, Hanoi will cut down and strictly fine those providing early gender indications of foetuses through ultrasound scans.

Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) and Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) have been listed among the top 150 Asian universities in the 2016 QS rankings.

Free medical check-ups and medicines were provided for 1,200 ethnic minority people in the districts of Thach That, Quoc Oai and Chuong My, Hanoi.

Thu Duc District Hospital doctors were able to perform high-tech treatment on a patient after receiving training from leading hospitals in HCM City.

Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam is leading a Vietnamese delegation to attend the UN General Assembly high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York. On June 9, the Deputy PM made the speech that HIV/AIDS prevention and control are regarded as the Vietnamese Government’s prioritized task.

Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam is leading a Vietnamese delegation to attend the UN General Assembly high-level meeting on HIV/AIDS in New York and also visit Atlanta June 8-12.

Chairman of the Hanoi municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung has ordered the establishment of five inter-sector inspection teams on food safety and hygiene.

On June 7, while receiving Special Advisor to the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Parliamentarian Alliance Tsutomo Takabe in Hanoi, PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed that the Vietnamese Government will facilitate the operation and development of the Viet Nam-Japan University, which will be open in September, 2016.

From June 1 to June 30, 2016, Hanoi will launch an annual programme to eradicate HIV transmitted from mothers to children. The programme is in full swing this June.

An international business start-up contest is held for the first time in Vietnam to offer high school and university students in the country a chance to win money and support for their business ideas.

Internet freedom in Vietnam is an irrefutable truth, or in other words, Vietnam is an Internet-friendly country.

On May 25, the US Secretary of State John Kerry officially attended the ceremony to announce the establishment of the Fulbright University Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City.