VIETNAM TODAY

The oldest giant panda living in captivity, 38-year-old Jia Jia, was euthanized in Hong Kong after rapidly deteriorating health over the past two weeks, her owners Ocean Park said on Sunday.

The central province of Quang Nam has submitted an upgrade plan for Chu Lai Airport to ministry review before it seeks approval from the Prime Minister.

The Vietnam National University-Hanoi should take the lead in building Vietnam into a start-up nation, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc told its managerial staff.

Authorities in the southern province of Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu are working closely with government agencies to identify the cause of the recent mass death of farm-raised fish in the province’s Long Sơn Commune.

The Ministry of Health and the Supporting Fund for Cancer Patients – Bright Future has jointly launched a campaign to give free breast cancer screening for 10,000 women from 40 years old nationwide.

The Philippines evacuated almost 12,500 people before a Category 3 typhoon hit land early on Sunday, dumping heavy rains and unleashing strong winds on northern rice-growing areas, disaster officials said.

Public universities in Vietnam are to become autonomous in academic knowledge, human resources, and finances and will tighten their accountability.

Young Vietnamese diners are undertaking dares and challenges eating South Korean 7-level spicy noodles.

The Hanoi Department of Health will expand the health insurance coverage among poor people living with HIV/AIDS by giving them financial support sourced from the city’s health insurance fund.

Typhoon Sarika in parts of the nation already hit by torrential rain and floods that have left at least 21 people dead and missing and dozens injured, authorities said.

A group of ‘so called experts’ is encouraging farmers in Vietnam to plant crops such as corn and soybeans for use as animal feed in lieu of rice because it will increase gross revenue for the nation collectively.

Two more Zika cases have been reported in Ho Chi Minh City, bringing the total number of confirmed cases this year to seven as of October 15, the Ministry of Health has reported.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has designed a plan to monitor the production chain of safe shrimp for export, aiming to develop shrimp farms to the standards of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

Since early September, hand, foot and mouth disease has been spreading rapidly in HCM City, affecting local nurseries.

Heavy rain that lasted from October 12 to 14 in Ha Tinh and Quang Binh provinces have flooded thousands of houses, the main north-south rail line and killed at least three people.

A major effort to reform the nation’s education system and make it more practical and relevant has been ongoing for the last five years, but there is a danger that this can stumble on its own contradictions, experts say.

A campaign to combat breast cancer was launched yesterday in Hà Nội in conjunction with Vietnamese Women’s Day next Thursday.

The National Assembly delegation of HCM City has asked the city’s People’s Committee why the amount of foreign direct investment has declined this year.

President Tran Dai Quang, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan on October 14 sent their condolences to Thailand over the death of King Bhumibol Abdulyadej.