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

​An HIV-Addiction Technology Transfer Centre on the campus of the HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy will offer workforce training and technical assistance in treating substance abuse.

Since the beginning of November, hand-foot-mouth disease has struck 7out of 8 communes in Khanh Son district in central coastal Khanh Hoa province, resulting in a sharp increase in infection cases.

​Most of the teachers conferred the title of “merit teacher” or “people’s teacher” are managerial staff, while very few teachers who give lectures at school receive the honorable titles.

​Enterprises in Viet Nam should provide comprehensive health care to employees to increase productivity and retention, an expert said yesterday at a workshop held in HCM City.

A project on building an HIV-addiction treatment technology transfer centre was officially kicked off at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy in on November 21.

Only 22,000 patients from 38 cities and provinces received methadone maintenance treatment by November 15, 2014, Nguyen Hoang Long, head of the Ministry of Health’s HIV/AIDS Prevention Department said in a workshop on the implementation of methadone maintenance treatment in Hanoi on November 20.

​The National Assembly discussed the draft project on textbook reform yesterday, the national holiday for teachers.

The Lilama 2 Technical and Technology College has become the first Vietnamese school to be accredited as a member of the European Association of Institutes for Vocational Training (EVBB).

Vietnamese children in big cities begin using electronic devices at a very early age, but parents are unsure if this is a good idea.

On November 19, Phan Huy Chu Secondary School (Dong Da District - Hanoi) formally organized the 32nd anniversary of Vietnam Teacher`s Day (20/11).

Minister of Education and Training Pham Vu Luan sent a letter congratulating the teachers, teaching staffs, officials on Vietnam Teacher`s Day (20/11).

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) said it must be involved in compiling a set of textbooks for every grade, but the public does not support the idea.

​ "Are you blind?" The young nurse`s response to Ho Thi Thuy hurt the 49-year-old woman, who had just asked for help in finding the Obstetrics section of the Hue Central Hospital.

​Vietnamese students are not required return to Vietnam after finishing their studies overseas, as they can serve the fatherland anywhere in the world, said Chair of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Nguyen Thien Nhan.

The Hue Central Hospital in the central province of Thua Thien Hue held a ceremony on November 17 to mark 200 successful kidney transplant cases conducted by its experts and to honor the voluntary kidney donors.

​The General Association of Vietnamese Cambodian People launched the new academic year at the Khmer-Vietnam friendship primary school in Cambodia’s Prey Veng province on November 14.

The provincial Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the centre for Vietnamese disabled children (Centre II) and the provincial General Hospital provided 150 disabled kids in Son La with free surgery.

To improve the health of local citizens, on November 14 free check-ups and consultations on diabetes were given to the locals in Ho Chi Minh city, as part of activities in response to World Diabetes Day (November 14th).

​Early detection could have a good survival rate for up to 40 percent of cancer patients, heard a national childhood cancer conference in Hanoi on November 13.

​The Ministry of Health is to establish a working group to collect documents related to the reported bribery case involving US firm Bio-Rad Laboratories to serve investigations.