Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

A Vietnamese man was in a stable condition in hospital Friday after doctors removed a giant tumour from his right leg that weighed more than the rest of his body, hospital officials said.

Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training said at a meeting Thursday that more than 90 percent of schools in the country have hygienic toilets.

The Human Rights Watch’s recent report on forced labor and abuses in drug detention centres in Vietnam is groundless and distorts the reality in Vietnam with bad intention, the Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nguyen Phuong Nga said in Hanoi on Sept. 9.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Monday warned about a new mutant strain of the deadly bird flu H5N1 virus in China and Vietnam, saying there could be a "major resurgence" of the disease.

HANOI - A survey shows up to 90 per cent of country people who move to big cities aren't covered by social insurance and they don't qualify for subsidised care while they are away from their areas.

The number of people suffering from diabetes in Ho Chi Minh City has doubled in the last 3 years by 8 percent and by more than 6 per cent throughout Vietnam since 2001.

HO CHI MINH City - Vietnam should come up with an effective awareness strategy to increase understanding of all aspects of organ donation in order to have more people become donors, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported quoting experts as saying.

Hanoi - Vietnam's Health Ministry Tuesday rejected allegations by government inspectors that officials had accepted kickbacks on emergency drug purchases during the avian influenza scare of 2005-06.

The number of workplace accidents in Vietnam is on the rise and in danger of getting out of control because labour laws are widely ignored, a government official said Friday.

Vietnamese authorities have ordered several steel plants in the port city of Haiphong to suspend production after nearly 90 people at a nearby school were hospitalised, presumably from toxic fumes, a newspaper reported.

Vietnam's National Assembly Chair Nguyen Phu Trong called on parliamentarians of Asia-Pacific nations to intensify cooperation in policy and law making preventing HIV/Aids, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.

Vietnam is among the 24 countries with the largest numbers of children under five years old who suffer from stunted growth.

Hanoi - The company that makes Dutch Lady brand dairy products in Vietnam has halted the manufacture of one of its milk products after children complained of allergic reactions, a government official said Wednesday.

The HCM City-based Pasteur Institute last week said that it would soon produce a biochemical for influenza A (H1N1) testing to replace the imported chemical and reduce cost.

Vietnam will ban smoking in all indoor public places next year and raise tariffs on tobacco products to reduce consumption, the government said.