Hanoi street food tour

According to Director General of the MoH’s Management of Medical Examination Department Luong Ngoc Khue, the health sector will take care of more than 1,500 delegates from 100 countries and territories worldwide, and about 10,000 domestic delegates and Buddhist followers. The UN Day of Vesak 2019 will take place in Ha Nam province from May 12-14. The department will work with the Vietnam Food Administration, Department of Preventive Medicine and the Health Environment Management Agency to ensure food safety and arrange personnel to give timely emergency aid and treatment in case of fires, explosions or mass food poisoning incidents, among other potential calamities. As the delegates will join Vesak Day activities in Hanoi, Ha Nam and Ninh Binh, medical staff will be arranged at Noi Bai International Airport, places hosting Vesak activities, hotels and Tam Chuc Buddhist Cultural Complex, Khue said. Central-level hospitals, Hanoi French Hospital, Vinmec … [Read more...] about Health sector ready for UN Day of Vesak 2019

On the Week of Breastfeeding (August 1-7), the Ho Chi Minh City Nutrition Center will host a breastfeeding show to be performed by 200 women on August 6. The event is jointly organized by the center, the Health Education and Communication Center and the Reproductive Health Care Center. The show will include experts’ talks on the benefits of breastfeeding, correct ways of breastfeeding, and other interesting issues. A number of actresses will take part in the event, which contributes to enhancing the public’s awareness of the benefit of breastfeeding to babies, the organizer said. At a recent press conference on breastfeeding in HCMC, heath experts warned that only 19.4 percent of babies are exclusively breastfed in their first 6 months of life. Meanwhile, exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months would help reduce mortality among children below five by 13 percent. Babies exclusively breastfed in the first 6 months after birth will suffer less from respiratory, … [Read more...] about 200 mothers to perform ‘breastfeeding show’

Other News Can Tho University poised to become think tank in Mekong Delta: JICA By Huynh Kim Wednesday,  Nov 20, 2019,19:13 (GMT+7) Can Tho University poised to become think tank in Mekong Delta: JICABy Huynh Kim Officials from the Can Tho University and the Japan International Cooperation Agency attend the ground-breaking ceremony for construction of the Can Tho University Improvement Project on November 20 – PHOTO: HUYNH KIM CAN THO – An official from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has expressed the belief that Can Tho University could become a think tank in education, scientific research and technology transfer in the Mekong Delta region. Located in the center of the Mekong Delta, the university is expected to become an “excellent institution of education, scientific research and technology transfer,” according to Murooka Naomichi, deputy chief representative of JICA Vietnam, … [Read more...] about Can Tho University poised to become think tank in Mekong Delta: JICA

She lives in the Kien An-Ngoc Lu Cemetery in Saigon’s District 2, and people come during Tet to visit their loved ones in the graveyard. At 80 Huong still walks around the graveyard every day to clean and burn incense to the dead. She started doing this work almost 50 years ago and now lives with four generations of her family in the cemetery. Huong says: "My husband used to help me but he passed away five years ago. My children moved in to live with me and help a lot." Half a century ago a group of people from Kien An and Ngoc Lu districts in Hai Phong City and the then province of Ha Nam Ninh in the north bought this plot of land to bury their loved ones in Saigon. Since 1975 the cemetery has been run by the authorities. Huong and her husband were allowed to build a house in the middle of the cemetery to care for the graves. For the last 50 years she has been cutting the grass, sweeping the leaves and cleaning the graves without getting paid for it. Her income comes from … [Read more...] about 80-year old woman spends half century living alongside the dead

The welcoming ceremony was held at the headquaters of the Ministry of National Defense in Hanoi with the participation of Ambassador Dan Kritenbrink and military leaders of the two sides. Minister of National Defense General Ngo Xuan Lich affirmed the defense cooperation is an important landmark for the Vietnam-US comprehensive partnership. The US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s trip to Vietnam aims to implement contents of the agreement on promoting defense collaboration signed between the two ministries, make a contribution to the friendship between the armed forces and people of two countries. At the meeting, the two sides shared concerns and issues, and stressed the importance of maintaining a peaceful and stable environment for the development. The two ministers also highly appreciated the results in missing-in-action servicemen, bomb and mine clearance, Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin remediation, United Nations peace-keeping operations, training, military medicine and the … [Read more...] about Vietnam – US strengthening defense cooperation