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

​The Fatherland Front of Viet Nam has for the first time given its seal of approval to religious organisations running nursery schools in the country.

Sending high-ranking specialists abroad could bring double benefits: it helps restructure the domestic labor market and strengthens the Vietnamese workforce.

​A community called ZEROworkplace made debut in Ho Chi Minh City on November 10 with an aim of calling upon Vietnamese businesses to support activities minimising child fatality, including the ongoing measles-rubella vaccination campaign.

According to UNICEF, 100 Vietnamese children die every day from preventable causes. Therefore, ZERO workplace aims to call Vietnamese businesses to support vaccination campaign.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) has released a list of four bans that primary schools must follow in an effort to ease the workload on students.

The delegation of 30 doctors and nurses from Hung Vuong Hospital provided free medical check-ups for workers across Nha Be district.

​Ha Noi People`s Committee has urged authorities to increase supervision over the operation of private health clinics.

A seven-year-study on more than 500,000 people has concluded that eating fruit everyday can decrease the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) up to 40%.

​The Hanoi Department of Health in coordination with Helen Keller International (HKI) will provide eye check-ups for some 10,000 people aged 45 or more in the capital city’s Quoc Oai district from now to September 2015.

The doctors of Bach Mai hospital has reccently provided free health check-ups, and medicines for people in Lang Chanh and Thuong Xuan districts, Thanh Hoa province, as part of the coordination program on providing free healthcare in the 2014-2017 period.

​The German development cooperation agency GIZ will continue helping Vietnam improve its hospital management with the use of advanced technologies, GIZ Programme Director Anna Frisch said.

More than 700 Vietnamese and international experts assembled in Hanoi for the 24th Annual Congress of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia (ATCSA 2014) from November 5-8.

According to a research team at University of Salford (UK), an extract of peppermint’s leaves can cure cancer by destroying blood vessels supplying tumors

Municipal health authorities recently closed down about 110 of the clinics after inspections revealed many medical violations.

Due to the rainy season lasting from August to the end of October, the number of patients contracting the mosquito-born disease rising to 3,000 in the first 9 months of this year

A ceremony was held on November 3 in Hanoi to honour students, who won medals at International Olympiads and recorded highest results at 2014 university entrance exams.

As part of the national campaign to provide the combined measles-rubella vaccine, more than 150,000 children aged 10 to 14 in HCM City have received shots, according to Dr Nguyen Tri Dung, head of the city`s Preventive Health Centre.

Helen Keller International (HKI) – in coordination with the Hanoi Department of Health (DoH) is implementing an eye care project for old people in Quoc Oai district from now to the end of 2015.

​Despite a Ministry of Education and Training ban on after-school classes, many students and parents take no notice. Some even use the classes as child minding centres while they are still at work.

​A dengue vaccination trial conducted by France’s Sanofi Pasteur in five Asian countries, including Vietnam, showed the efficacy in 56.5 percent of dengue-infected cases.