Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a VND4.315 trillion ($197 million) irrigation project funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in the central province of Thanh Hoa. The project will target to build three irrigation canals...
The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) has signed an agreement to fund phase II of the Vietnam Blended Learning Program, managed by the World Bank through its Vietnam Development Information Centre (VDIC). The AUD900,000 grant...
Vietnam highly valuates the United Nations (UN)’s role in the global community, especially in promoting peace, development cooperation, poverty reduction and climate change adaptation, said Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. The Vietnamese cabinet...
Vietnam and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will discuss an agreement on a credit supporting the Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Program V (Program Cluster) - Subprogram 3, the Government Office said. The Vietnamese inter-ministerial...
Authorities of Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi Oct 25 decided to spend VND94.5 billion ($4.5 million) to help build and repair houses for 3,780 local poor families. Accordingly, each household will receive VND20 million from the city’s budget and...
The Republic of Korea’s MBC Television wants to support Agent Orange (AO) victims in Vietnam, MBC General Director Kim Jae Cheul said. The MBC leader affirmed this willingness while working with the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange /...
Health experts have called on the community to take action against cancer at the launching for a program on improving the public awareness of disease prevention among women in Vietnam. The event, which was co-held by the Hanoi-based Cancer Hospital...
A private heart hospital, the first of its kind in Vietnam’s northern region will be put into operation in Hanoi by the end of this month, state media reported. Located on 7,500sq.m in Hoan Kiem district, the Dong Do heart hospital, outfitted with...
Many state-owned hospitals in Vietnam will have to shut down if the proposal on medical service fees hike is not approved, Ministry of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien warned. The current fees kept unchanged for many years are not suitable to the present...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health is working out a draft circular to tighten control over certification and operational licenses for medical units nationwide. Under the draft circular, beauty salons will be banned from breast augmentation surgery...
