Students are required to spend at least 30 minutes a day studying English on their own, with support from their teachers.

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

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.

On April 13, the delegation of the Health Ministry led by the Deputy Minister Nguyen Thanh Long had a working session with Hanoi People`s Committee on piloting the food safety inspection in 5 districts and 10 communes in the city.

The Government will provide all necessary support for the establishment of Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV) which is due to open during the visit of US President Barack Obama to Vietnam in May this year .

The health sector has called for action to halt the rise of diabetes and improve care for people suffering from the disease at a workshop held in Hanoi on April 7.

City`s Vice Chairwoman Ngo Van Quy emphasized that Hanoi will continue into the more aggressive prevention on Zika virus intrusion.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has reassured "people should not be too confused" about Zika virus.

Right from the warning level of Zika virus level 1, Hanoi`s Health Department has been actively planning to build three specific situations to deal with the epidemic.

FrieslandCampina Vietnam`s Dutch Lady brand of dairy products has begun a charity campaign to build a school for disadvantaged students in the south-central province of Binh Thuan.

Earlier, Hanoi Department of Health actively has set 3 scenarios to prevent Zika virus after the Ministry of Health raised the Zika virus emergency level to 1.

The Ministry of Transport`s Vietnam Aviation Academy and D`viation Solutions, a subsidiary of Malaysia`s D`viation Group signed an agreement for a comprehensive strategic partnership to enhance aviation education and training in Vietnam.

This was confirmed by the Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien at the Steering Committee for Zika virus prevention that was held on March 30.

More than 200 doctors and cancer specialists participated in a scientific conference in Hanoi to update their knowledge about new methods of treating breast cancer.

A workshop was held on March 23 in Hanoi to promote bilateral cooperation and exchanges of health care products and technologies between Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK).

On the evening of March 23, the Ministry of Health has informed the press about the case of an Australian man who has been identified Zika virus infection in S outheast Asian nationafter 10 days to return home.

Doctors at the cardiac surgery ward in Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital have begun using a less invasive surgical technique to treat patients with aortic disease.

A workshop on improving access to eye care services for people with disabilities took place in Hanoi.

On March 20, information from the General Department of Preventive Medicine (Ministry of Health), through more than 200 tests on multiple samples provinces and key to conduct tests to detect cases of Zika virus suggests, the results were negative.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has issued an instruction on stronger measures to reduce overload in hospitals and expand the satellite hospital system.

According to the statistics of the Health Ministry, in the first 10 months of 2015, medicine cost of each Vietnamese was nearly 38 USD, rising by 10% from the previous year and almost doubling the 2009 figure.

Hanoi is struggling to set aside 36 billion VND (1.61 million USD) to expand methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) availability among heroin addicts in the city, said Le Nhan Tuan, Director of the municipal Centre for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control.