Vietnam targets breast cancer screening for half of women aged 40-70 by 2030
Vietnam News 17:22 20/10/2026Vietnam records around 25,711 new breast cancer cases annually, accounting for 28.1 percent of all female cancer cases. Under a new national action plan, the country aims to provide regular screenings for 50 percent of women aged 40-70 by 2030, and 70 percent by 2035.
Ho Chi Minh City presents Vietnamese ‘ao dai’ to Belarusian women
Vietnam News 15:22 18/09/2026The Ho Chi Minh City Women’s Union presented ‘ao dai’ (traditional Vietnamese long gown) to Belarusian women during a cultural exchange in Minsk in mid-September, strengthening ties between the two countries.
A woman who sails a ship on Vietnam's southern seas
In-Depth 10:01 27/06/2021She is known as a 'steel rose' of Vietnam’s southern sea
Scar tissue: Vietnamese women find healing with tattoos
Vietnam Life 16:15 09/04/2021In her tiny Hanoi apartment, tattoo artist Ngoc inks middle-aged women whose lives have been upended by divorce or illness, each of them searching for healing through an art form that is still largely taboo in Vietnam
Vietnamese women arrested in Singapore for public nudity, drug offenses: report
Vietnam News 22:00 16/01/2018The women were captured following a six-hour joint operation by local police
