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

Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien met with the Hanoi People`s Committee to discuss about measures of preventing the transmission risk of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in the capital on June 18.

All hospitals across the nation should set up a separate section giving medical services to suspected cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in order to prevent the spread of the virus inside the hospitals, according to a Health Ministry’s official.

KTĐT - The Ministry of Health in collaboration with the HCM City People's Committee held a meeting on June 14 in response to the ASEAN Dengue Day (June 15). Some 3,000 people attended the 5th national-level event.

In the meeting with Hanoi`s MERS-CoV prevention steering committee on June 11, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Van Suu required all sectors, districts and towns implement strictly prevention measures of MERS-CoV, even when it has had no cases of MERS-CoV entering Vietnam.

Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan is on a working visit to France from June 4-9 with a hope of enhancing bilateral cooperation in the field.

According to Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health, up to 7p.m of June 7, Vietnam has not recorded any cases of infected the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS - CoV).

On June 5, the Vietnamese Ministry of Health has signed a a decision on establishing four quick-response teams to prevent the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome caused by the Corona virus (MERS-CoV).

The Ministry of Health recently designed a draft programme calling for public engagement in epidemic prevention amidst complicated disease developments in Vietnam, especially the possible appearance of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV).

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.