General News

  • The U.S. government will provide $3.5 million in aid to help defuse bomb, and land mines left from the war in Vietnam this year, state media reported, citing the U.S. embassy as saying. The funding aims to clean up unexploded ordnance (UXO), raise...
    Tuesday, 17th April, 2012
  • A charity music program will be held in Hanoi on April 14 to raise funds for needy Vietnamese people, including the disabled orphans.“One Heart - One World”, the 9th of its kind, will be co-organized by the Association in Support of Vietnamese...
    Tuesday, 10th April, 2012
  • As many as 12,000 poor people in 10 provinces and cities nationwide will be provided with free medical check-ups and treatment following an agreement between the Vietnam Red Cross (VRC) and Glaxosmithkline Pte Ltd Co. (GSK).  Under the...
    Tuesday, 10th April, 2012
  • 1,162 children in Cao Bang Province, for the first time, received free check-ups for congenital heart diseases in a two-day humanitarian program to provide heart surgeries, “Heart for children”, in late March. The program was held by Viettel...
    Tuesday, 10th April, 2012
  • Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh has called for more efforts to quicken the implementation of a rapid and sustainable poverty elimination program in the poorest districts. The Deputy PM asked relevant agencies to support local...
    Tuesday, 10th April, 2012
  • The Vietnamese government spent roughly VND360 billion ($17.14 million) on implementing social security policies in the first three months of this year, the Ministry of Finance said. Of the sum, VND272.7 billion was used to support electricity...
    Tuesday, 10th April, 2012
  • Vietnam is in need of more support from the international community to cope with the consequences of post-war bombs and mines, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan said. Nhan made the statement at an exchange in the capital city of Hanoi on April...
    Monday, 9th April, 2012
  • Vietnamese and French scientists discussed the impacts of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin on Vietnamese victims in A Luoi district in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue , at a forum recently held in Paris . Jointly organized by the France -Vietnam...
    Monday, 9th April, 2012
  • Vietnam has recorded 16 food poisoning cases in the first quarter of this year, affecting 360 people with three deaths, the government’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said. In March, six collective poisoning cases with 166 involvers occurred in...
    Tuesday, 3rd April, 2012
  • Vietnam is estimated to have disbursed VND208 billion ($9.9 million) worth of state funds for health projects in the first quarter of this year, fulfilling 18.7% of the whole year’s set target. The figure shows an on-year slight increase of 9.2%,...
    Tuesday, 3rd April, 2012