The entire society should take responsibility for caring for victims of Agent Orange/dioxin spiritually and materially to help reduce their sufferings, Defence Minister Phung Quang Thanh has said. General Thanh, who is also a Politburo member of the...
A meeting between US friends and Overseas Vietnamese was held in New York on July 27 in support of Vietnamese Agent Orange (AO)/Dioxin victims. The event, which raised funds and fought for justice for victims, was jointly held by the Vietnam Agent...
The Vietnamese community in Great Britain, Italy and Germany raised almost $8,000 on July 25 for Agent Orange/dioxin victims in the homeland. In the U.K., the Vietnamese embassy joined with the Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society (BVFS) and the...
The World Bank (WB) has pledged to fund $30 million for a community-based natural disasters risk management program in central Vietnam in the 2011-2015 period, the Lao Dong newspaper reported July 20. The information was released at a meeting held...
The Finnish government granted EUR5 million to carry out the Innovation Partnership Program (IPP) in Vietnam as a part to help Vietnam firms to improve their innovation for better development.IPP is aimed to boost innovation within business,...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged to push up the construction of a VND1.4 trillion ($67.96M) tumor and cancer hospital funded by the Hungarian government, in the southern city of Can Tho. This is part of a financial cooperation...
Health authorities of Vietnam have recorded around 60 deaths out of total 20,000 people affected by hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) since early this year, the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City said. The information was released at a meeting to...
The Cat Tien National Park in south Vietnam has been recognized as a World Biosphere Reserve by the UNESCO, becoming the 7th in the Southeast Asian country, said the Management Board of the Dong Nai Nature Reserve and Cultural Site. Accordingly,...
Authorities of Vietnam’s southern province of Ca Mau have worked out a VND200 billion ($9.71 million) plan on building an embankment system for anti-landslides in the area of Ca Mau Cape. Local authorities have initially mobilized VND7-billion...
The Department of Natural Resources and Environment in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City has worked out an action plan to tackle climate change with an estimated capital of VND12 trillion ($58.25 million) from now up to 2015. Of...
