Obesity on the Rise, Schools Educate Children On Dangers
Nutrition intervention, especially at kindergarten and primary schools, is taking an important role in managing the increasing rates of obesity in children in Vietnam. Read More »Vietnam Needs Policy for Sustainable Gender Ratio Balance
Tackling the gender imbalance among the country’s population was a contentious discussion at an international conference in Hanoi. Read More »US Veterans Try to Atone for Mistakes of the Past
Fifty years ago this month, in the early stages of the Vietnam War, the US military began spraying rural areas of the country with the herbicide, Agent Orange. The programme’s goal was to defoliate forested land, depriving the enemy Viet Cong of cover and driving peasants to the cities, thus destroying the Viet Cong’s support base and food supply. Read More »Canadians Urged to Protect Children from Sex Tourism
As South East Asia’s tourism industry explodes with huge increases in arrival numbers, more needs to be done to protect children from sexual exploitation by travelers, warns World Vision on the eve of World Tourism Day. Many of the countries in the region are known as “hot spots” where travelling child sex offenders target vulnerable children. Read More »Hand, Foot & Mouth Disease Death Toll Now at 109
Vietnam has witnessed 52,321 hand, foot and mouth disease in 61 cities and provinces so far this year, including 109 deaths. Read More »Changing Faces With a Smile
Changing faces with a smile – a little Brazilian girl gets corrective surgery for her cleft lip. Read More »Photos from Hanoi & HCM City’s Mid-Autumn Festivals
Two days before Vietnam’s annual Mid-Autumn Festival, Hanoi’s streets were packed with people buying toys, lanterns and enjoying the atmosphere. Read More »HCM City Neighborhoods Through the Eyes of 5-Year Olds
This blogger & teacher in Ho Chi Minh City had her 5-year-old students recreate their neighborhood with cut-out buildings, crayons, and glue. Read More »81 Children Dead From Common Virus, Vietnam on Alert
Vietnam’s prime minister has put the country on alert as an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease continues to surge, killing 81 children and sickening more than 32,000 people nationwide so far this year, officials said Friday. Read More »Debate Over Proposed Addition of Letters to Alphabet
Linguists and educationists are pitching into the vigorous public debate that has started over a recent suggestion to add four more letters to the Vietnamese alphabet. Read More »Children’s Foundation Helps Bring Down Trafficking Ring
After weeks of hard work, we have played a significant role in bringing down a ring of traffickers who were kidnapping teenage girls from Vietnam and selling them to brothels in China. Read More »Children Of The Cannabis Trade
An investigation into how Vietnamese children trafficked to work in the UK’s cannabis trade are prosecuted as criminals. Read More »Schools in HCM City Teaching Students Self Defense Skills
HCM CITY — A slender HCM City schoolgirl has stunned everyone by not only single-handedly warding off two would-be bag snatchers but also wrestling them to the ground to have them arrested. Read More »3-Year Old Dies from Loaded Gun Mistaken for Toy
This story was reported by Vietnamese media a few days ago with the headline “Thinking it was a toy, little boy points gun at his chest and pulls the trigger” (Tưởng đồ chơi, bé trai chĩa súng vào ngực bóp cò)… Read More »Boy Goes for Joy Ride on Honda Motorbike
Even though he’s too small to manually kick start the Honda motorbike, he’s able to ride it with apparent ease. Giving his name and age as 13-year old “Phước,” the seemingly experienced little rider goes to buy a snack to eat, before riding away… not before getting a little help from an adult.The scene was captured on video in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 9 Read More »
