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.

The Center for International Health Quarantine officially required to fill out health declaration forms of the MERS-CoV for passengers coming from Republic of Korea (RoK) entering Vietnam via Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport as from June 3.

Under the fact of complicated developments of Middle East respiratory syndrome corona virus (MERS-CoV), the Ministry of Health (MoH) held an urgent meeting to discuss solutions for preventing the epidemic from penetrating into Vietnam on June 2.

More than 200 teachers from around the world, including one from southern Vietnam, are gearing up to take the trip of a lifetime to Honeywell Educators @ Space Academy (HESA), the game-changing experience that inspires teachers to encourage students to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and careers.

At the Asia-Pacific Mathematical Olympiad for Primary Schools (APMOPS2015) held from May 28-31 in Singapore, Vietnamese delegation with ten Vietnamese students from Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted won 6 gold medals.

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union kicked off its summer volunteering campaign with the participation of 5,000 young volunteers in northern Thai Nguyen province on May 28.

Bosch, a leading global supplier of technologies and services, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Vietnamese-German University (VGU).

On May 21, the Hanoi Department of Education and Training held a ceremony to honor 1,200 outstanding individuals, and collectives in the 2010 2015 period.

According to a report from the Ministry of Education and Training on May 19, Vietnamese students won 3 gold medals at the 2015 Asia-Pacific Informatics Olympiad held online by Indonesia on May 10 and 11.

The Vietnam Young Doctors’ Association in coordination with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union opened Young Doctors’ Day for community health in 63 cities and provinces across the country on May 17. The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union rewarded 10 outstanding young doctors in 2014.

The 22nd Vietnam International Hospital, Medical and Pharmaceutical Exhibition (Vietnam Medi-Pharm 2015) opened at the Friendship Cultural Palace in Hanoi on May 13.

The upgrading of the Transport Hospital to a 500-bed General Hospital has been completed, according to the project`s management board. The hospital will be opened to public on May 15.

On May 9, the Ministry of Education and Training announced the results of the Vietnamese team at the 2015 Asian Physics Olympiad held in China on May 3-9.

The Centre for Thai studies was inaugurated at a ceremony held on May 7 at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City with the attendance of Thai princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, among others.

The Hanoi Department of Health has required all medical units to build and implement a plan for hygienic hospital in 2015 and to commit this target.

The Honda Young Engineer and Scientist’s Award (Y-E-S Award) was launched on May 4 at eight universities across Vietnam.

A phase 1 clinical trial of an inactivated influenza A/H5N1 pandemic vaccine candidate (IVACFLU-H5N1), involving 75 participants in southern Long An province`s Ben Luc district, has so far proven to safely induce immune responses at various dosage levels in healthy adults.

Thirty pharmaceutical businesses and 62 medicine products were awarded the prize "Vietnamese Medicine Star" by the Ministry of Health April 22.

The 11th Conference of the Association of Francophone Universities (AUF) in the Asia-Pacific opened in Hanoi on April 23, gathering representatives of 84 member universities from 10 regional countries.

Eighty Vietnamese outstanding students in the 2014-2015 academic year were each granted scholarships worth US$300 from the Japanese FUYO Foundation at the 17th FUYO scholarship awarding ceremony held in Hanoi on April 21.

Senior representatives from Australia’s Regional University Network (RUN) are on a visit to Vietnam from April 20-24 to develop research partnerships with Vietnamese universities and institutes in agriculture, forestry, regional development and sustainable development.