Vietnamese live longer, yet suffer many diseases: survey
By Thuy Quynh December 19, 2020 | 05:03 pm GMT+7
Elderly people attend a yoga class at the National Geriatric Hospital in Hanoi, October 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Thuy An.
In Vietnam, women live up to 77.1 years but spend 11 being sick while men spend eight of their 74.4 years ill.
Nguyen Hong Quan, chairman of the Vietnam Association for Community Health Education, said the average life expectancy of Vietnamese is higher than that of many countries with the same per capita income, but their health is weaker.
The latest data provided by the General Statistics Office (GSO) states elderly people make up 12 percent of Vietnam’s population of 95 million. The rate is expected to rise to 17.9 percent in 2025 and 23.5 percent by 2050.
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Flower gardens in Da Nang ready for Lunar New Year
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Many flower gardens in the central city of Da Nang have faced difficulties due to the impact of COVID-19 and the recent severe weather. But local flower growers have made every effort to ensure a sufficient supply of blooms for the upcoming lunar new year, or Tet.
His 800 flower pots are the main source of income for Pham Ngoc Anh as Tet approaches. But his spending on pesticides and fertiliser this year has been higher than previously due to the unfavourable weather conditions.
Illustrative photo (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Thirty-two international organisations
have donated some 25 million USD for people affected by natural disasters in Vietnam’s
central region this year, heard at a conference held on December 16.
At the event, which reviewed international support for
Vietnam’s natural disaster risk mitigation in 2020, Deputy Minister of
Agriculture and Rural Development
Nguyen Hoang Hiep said the due attention
given to Vietnam reflected the humanitarian value in the work of the
international organisations and the effective operation of the Disaster Risk
Reduction Partnership (DRRP).
The DRRP was established under the Minister of Agriculture
and Rural Development’s Decision No. 3922/QD-BNN-TCCB, with the participation
Primary school children explore what chemistry means in daily life through online experiments at the
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - BASF Virtual Lab, an
online platform that
allows children to do a variety of
The ‘
Energy from the Sun’ experiment helps kids discover how a solar cell works
and converts as much sunlight as possible into environment-friendly energy
sources.
In the ‘Foaming Beads’ experiment, children will examine what makes insulating
materials and their differences before they learn to make the insulating
materials themselves.
The five experiments that are already available in Vietnamese are ‘Looking for
the sender,’ ‘Chemistry Lab Bakery,’ ‘Bubbling Refreshment,’ ‘Water
school children in areas affected by severe floods in Quang Binh, Quang Tri and
Thua Thien – Hue provinces.
The aid will address the damage caused by floods, lack of clean and safe water
and hygiene, and the disruption of education for children.
The support, worth up to 800,000 euros of integrated interventions, is funded
by The European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) within
the framework of its Vietnam Central Emergency Flooding Response project.
The joint action between Save the Children and World Vision is implemented from
November 2020 to February 2021 through an integrated package of interventions,
including education kits, household kits and WASH kits at home and school.