Nearly 1.8mn Vietnamese children under 5 are stunted: UNICEF
Vietnam News 17:26 01/12/2025Vietnam currently has around 1.8 million children under five suffering from stunting, with the rate of malnutrition among ethnic minority children in remote areas being twice that of the Kinh ethnic group, according to UNICEF statistics.
Vietnam has nearly 2.2mn children with disabilities in need of comprehensive care: chief editor
Vietnam News 13:49 29/11/2025Vietnam currently has nearly four million children in special circumstances, including 2.2 million with disabilities, said Tran Doan Tien, editor-in-chief of Children's Health Magazine.
School admission costs for children increase in Japan
World 17:14 27/11/2025TOKYO -- Expenditures needed for children to enter junior high and high schools in Japan have increased, a recent survey by a nongovernmental organization showed.
Indonesian president defends free meals program after 6,000 suffer food poisoning
World 15:45 29/09/2025JAKARTA - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on Monday defended his ambitious plan to provide free meals for children after some 6,000 cases of food poisoning, saying the percentage of those affected was small and the program was still finding its footing.
With Italian doctors’ help, Vietnam achieves first successful marrow transplant from mother to child with thalassemia
Vietnam News 15:45 09/09/2025In a historic medical breakthrough, doctors at Hue Central Hospital in central Vietnam have successfully performed the country’s first allogeneic bone marrow transplant for a child with thalassemia using stem cells from the child’s biological mother, despite an incompatibility in blood types.
Vietnam has 5 million children with refractive errors
Vietnam News 16:31 28/08/2025Vietnam has around five million school-aged children, or 30-40 percent of the total, with refractive errors, most of whom suffer from myopia, according to statistics from the Vietnam Ophthalmology Society in 2024.
Shooter kills two Minneapolis school children in Catholic church, wounds 17 others
World 14:19 28/08/2025MINNEAPOLIS - An assailant armed with three guns fired through stained-glass windows into a Catholic church where parish school students were attending Mass on Wednesday, killing two children and wounding 17 other people, officials said.
At least 27 dead, mostly children, in Bangladesh air force jet crash
World 08:45 23/07/2025DHAKA - At least 25 children were among the 27 dead pulled from scorched buildings after a Bangladesh Air Force jet on a training mission crashed into a college and school campus in Dhaka, officials said on Tuesday, with 88 people being treated in hospital.
Novartis gets approval for first malaria drug for babies and children
World 17:42 08/07/2025ZURICH - Novartis on Tuesday said it had received approval in Switzerland for Coartem Baby, which it said was the first drug to treat malaria in babies and young children.
Woman arrested for snatching lottery tickets from children, disabled in Vietnam
Vietnam News 19:20 14/06/2025Police in Binh Thuan Province, south-central Vietnam have arrested a woman who snatched lottery tickets and money from a nine-year-old boy, aside from targeting other vulnerable vendors including the elderly and the disabled.
Japan enacts bill to tackle child suicides
World 15:50 06/06/2025TOKYO -- The Diet, Japan's parliament, enacted Thursday a bill aimed at strengthening measures to tackle child suicides at a societal level.
Vietnam empowers couples with reproductive freedom
Vietnam News 10:05 04/06/2025In a landmark move, the Standing Committee of Vietnam’s National Assembly has passed an amendment to Article 10 of the Population Ordinance, granting couples and individuals the legal right to determine the number of children they have, as well as the timing and spacing of births.
