A Vietnamese lecturer from the central city of Danang has been voted as one of 30 top-notch education leaders worldwide. Dr. Nguyen Van Long, head of the Training Department of Danang Foreign Language University was among thousands of lecturers from...
The number of people with dengue fever is rising sharply in the southern region of Vietnam due to ineffective anti-disease measures, the provincial preventive medicine centers warned. The disease has sickened more than 6,600 people in Ca Mau...
The Australian government has pledged AUD45 million ($45.23 million) for a blindness prevention program in the Asia-Pacific region, including Vietnam from 2008 to 2013, heard a recent meeting. More than 40 experts and doctors from foreign...
The Health Department in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City has warned of the rising number of dengue fever patients with 10,473 cases recorded so far this year. The mosquito-borne disease has claimed ten lives during the period,...
The Vietnamese Prime Minister has approved a national strategic population and reproductive health development plan in the 2011-2020 period, the Vietnam News Agency said. Nguyen Van Tan, deputy head of the Health Ministry’s General Department for...
The Vietnamese Prime Minister has adopted an aid agreement valued at over EUR39 million by the European Union’s (EU) for the national health sector policy support program. Leaders of the Ministry of Finance (MoF) have been empowered to sign the aid...
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai has agreed to hold negotiations with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to look for loans for the national power transmission development project costing $155.63 million. Negotiators will include...
Vietnam plans to look for loans from foreign credit institutions like the World Bank (WB) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for its power transmission development projects from now through 2015. The Vietnam National Power Transmission Corp (NPT)...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications has launched a project on raising the capacity of using computers and public internet access among rural residents in 40 disadvantaged provinces across the country during the period of 2011-2016....
Ho Chi Minh City, the Vietnamese biggest economic hub, will carry out $6 million project, funded by World Bank to promote local animal breeding in 2011-2015, state media reported. The project aims to boost management capacity of the local...
