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 December 9, the Alive & Thrive project (A & T) has conducted review and share their experiences to reduce malnutrition of children in Vietnam by improving infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has decided to tighten control over medical training as experts have repeatedly rung the alarm bell over the quality of new medical school graduates.

Bryan Phan Ho or Ho Phan Vuong Bao is a 10th grade pupil at Mision Viejo school in California.

A ceremony to commence construction on HCM City Pediatrics Hospital in Binh Chanh district was held on December 6.

​ Information and communication technology tools are crucial for Asian governments to fast-track quality, affordable healthcare for all of their citizens, a regional healthcare conference heard in HCM City last week.

The KF-Samsung Scholarship Awards Ceremony took place on December 5 in Hanoi to present scholarships to Vietnamese students from low-income family.

Ethnic minority pupils were honoured at a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh city on December 5 for the outstanding achievements they recorded at school in southern provinces in 2014.

​Vietnam and the European Union (EU) signed a financial agreement valued at 114 million EUR for the second phase of the EU Health Sector Policy Support Programme (EU-HSPSP-2) in Vietnam , in Hanoi on December 4.

Vietnam and the European Union (EU) signed a financial agreement valued at EUR114 million for the second phase of the EU Health Sector Policy Support Programme (EU-HSPSP-2) in Vietnam

​Nearly 40,000 people have registered to donate their corneas, according to the Eye Bank of Vietnam.

​The northern mountainous province of Dien Bien recorded 291 new HIV-infected cases i n the first ten months of 2014, a reduction of 155 cases from the same period last year, according to Hoang Xuan Chien, Director of the provincial centre for HIV/AIDS prevention and control.

​The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has just approved a project to build a 1,000-bed paediatric hospital in the city.

A senior official from the Ministry of Health claims that many children who experience adverse reactions after being vaccinated are suffering from "a psychological reaction".

​Viet Nam has made significant headway in English language education, but needs to move faster to achieve its targets, an expert from a US-based global education company that draws up the annual English Proficiency Index has said.

Hanoi People`s Committee directed that departments, relevant agencies, People`s Committees of districts and cities have implemented the National Policy on preventing the harmful effects of alcohol abuse.

Closer co-operation between universities and industries is needed to further promote human resource training and innovative research in Viet Nam, participants at a recent conference here said.

​The conference room was humming with anticipation as headmasters from 66 leading universities in Vietnam and Hungary converged in Hanoi for the inaugural headmaster’s conference between the two nations.

​An estimated 53 million USD will be invested in expanding the Cho Ray – Phnom Penh general hospital in Cambodia, according to the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City.

​All 63 provinces and cities across Vietnam completed the first phase of the national measles-rubella vaccination campaign with more than 9.5 million children safely receiving free shots, preliminary reports from the localities show.

​Challenges still lie ahead in the expansion of the methadone treatment programme, since only 27 percent of the 80,000 drug users targeted until 2015 received access to this form of therapy.