Plans are being drawn up to stockpile medicines in hospitals and a disease control center in Hanoi.

Hanoi has the largest education network in the country, with 2,913 schools, 2.3 million students, and nearly 130,000 teachers

The success is a testament to the strength and determination of Hanoi's students in international competition.

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.

Hanoi Department of Education and Training has just made a plan on organizing numerous programs for students during summer vacation in 2016 to encourage them to take part in various activities of culture, art, sports, useful entertainment, etc.

On May 17, Vice Director of the municipal Health Department Hoang Duc Hanh said at the press briefing by the municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department organized that Hanoi announced hotlines to receive food safety-related feedback.

The Ministry of Health in coordination with Minsitry of Educaiton and Training, Viet Nam Unilever Foundation yesterday launched the handwashing campaign themed “10 million clean hands” in the presence of senior officials and thousands of students, teachers in Ba Dinh District.

News from the Ministry of Health, since June, some of the new vaccines will be included the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation for free.

The number of cervical cancer cases in Vietnam has fallen by half in the last 30 years thanks to a nationwide network of health facilities providing gynaecology screening, according to Professor Nguyen Chan Hung, Chairman of the Vietnam Cancer Association.

Entitled “Japanese Language Learning Taking Root in Vietnam” an article about a pilot project to offer Japanese lessons at three elementary schools in Hanoi was published on May 8 by Japan Today- an online newspaper based in Tokyo.

On May 4, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a reception for Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Hiroshi Hase of Japan in Hanoi.

News from the Department of Preventive Medicine (Ministry of Health), the Bureau held a meeting of the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) to enhance information sharing and risk assessment by Zika epidemic in Vietnam in the coming time.

The Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health said on April 26 that at present Vietnam is free of Zika virus cases.

Hanoi have agreed a programme to develop safe agricultural product consumption from 2016-2020. The City`s officials have urged consumers to buy products with clear origin sold at clean and hygienic trading places to ensure food safety.

During the Food Safety Action Month taking place in all provinces and cities nationwide since the middle of April, the Hanoi authorities will tighten food safety management and inspection.

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien and her counterparts from Japan, Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea (RoK) and Thailand attended the Meeting of Asia Health Ministers on Antimicrobial Resistance in Tokyo, Japan on April 16.

On April 14, a workshop was organised by the US Consulate General in HCM City, the Defence Ministry’s Military Hospital 175, and the municipal Department of Health on medical cooperation.