Vietnam disbursed VND52 billion ($2.47 million) worth of state funds for health projects in the first month of this year, fulfilling 4.7% of the whole year’s set target. The figure represented an on-year slight decrease of 1.9%, the government’s...
Vietnam has recorded one more person died of influenza A/H5N1, the second case in the country in 2012, the Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department said. This is also the 2nd case having succumbed to H5N1 virus in the Mekong Delta region...
Health authorities of Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Thap have started building a general hospital worth over VND534 billion ($25.3 million), state media reported. Located on a 39,000-sq.m site in Sa Dec town, the 450-bed hospital will include...
PM Nguyen Tan Dung has asked the State President to ratify credit agreements for the establishment of Hanoi Science and Technology University – a state-of-the-art institution which will support research, technical innovation, and skills development...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved an agreement on accessing to a loan from South Korea to fund a solar energy supply project in the central province of Quang Binh. At mid-2011, the Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea Eximbank)...
The Export-Import Bank of the U.S (Ex-Im Bank) will likely fund up to $1 billion to help Vietnam develop clean energy sources in the future, Chairman Fred Hochberg said. Between Feb 5 and 8, a high-ranking delegation of the Ex-Im Bank led by...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Transport has proposed the government to raise total investment of Hanoi-Thai Nguyen expressway to VND10.33 trillion ($494 million) from VND9.15 trillion. Of the sum, VND6.99 trillion is expected to come from the...
As members of the United Nations Commission for Social Development, Vietnam, Nepal and Bangladesh raised their voices at the 50th session on hunger eradication and poverty reduction. The three nations will have a chance to contribute to mapping out...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) plans to raise the state budget for poverty reduction program this year, said a senior official from the ministry. Ngo Truong Thi, head of the ministry’s co-ordination office for...
Vietnam recorded 66,300 hungry families in Jan 2012, with 269,600 starveling people, up 5.9% and 7.5% from a year earlier, respectively. Most of the households are mainly in rural remote mountainous provinces, central coastal areas and central...
