First cultural house for AO victims opens

First cultural house for AO victims opens

(VOVworld) - Vietnamese Agent Orange (AO) victims have had their first cultural house for the first time after a ceremony handing the Cultural House of the Rehabilitation and Nursing Centre to...
All out effort to push back drug crimes

All out effort to push back drug crimes

(VOVworld) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired an online meeting to review drug control and rehabilitation activities on Friday. Deputy Prime Ministers Truong Hoa Binh and Vu Duc Dam as...
Community communications to eradicate HIV/AIDS

Community communications to eradicate HIV/AIDS

(VOVworld)- Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam reiterated the government priority to control HIV/AIDS in a meeting aimed at improving cooperation between social organizations and partners
Vietnam, an active member of CITES

Vietnam, an active member of CITES

(VOVworld) – The 17th Conference of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) opened in Johannesburg, South Africa on Saturday involving representatives of 182...
Joint efforts to ease the pain of Agent Orange/dioxin

Joint efforts to ease the pain of Agent Orange/dioxin

(VOVworld) – In war time, the Vietnamese government ordered the army and the public health care system to provide treatments to those who were exposed to toxic chemicals. When Vietnam was unified in April 1975...
Dealing with AO/dioxin effects in Vietnam

Dealing with AO/dioxin effects in Vietnam

(VOVworld) – The American army’s chemical warfare in Vietnam severely damaged Vietnam’s ecology. 4.8 million Vietnamese have been exposed Agent Orange/ Dioxin of whom 3 million are directly affected by...
Joint forces arrest 400 Boko Haram gunmen

Joint forces arrest 400 Boko Haram gunmen

(VOVworld) - Some 2,000 people have been freed from Boko Haram strongholds by a West African regional force as Nigeria launches an operation to rehabilitate members of the militant group
Vietnam’s mine action programs

Vietnam’s mine action programs

(VOVworld)- Vietnam is one of the countries most contaminated with landmines and the one that has suffered the most serious consequences. More than 40,000 people have been killed and 60...