Vietnam targets to reduce the malnutrition rate among children aged less than five to 15% by 2015 and to below 13% by 2020 from 17.5% of last year, a local health official said. The country reduced the rate of underweight children aged less than...
Quang Ngai International General Hospital JSC have proposed to stop building an international general hospital with a total investment of VND880 billion ($42.11 million) due to difficulties during the implementation, especially capital shortage....
Binh Duong Water Supply, Sewerage, and Environment Company Mar 29 started building a wastewater collection system and a domestic wastewater treatment plant with a total investment of VND2 trillion ($95.69 million) in Vietnam’s southern province of...
Vietnam is estimated to have lost VND849 billion ($40.6 million) from natural disasters in the first three months of this year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said. Bitter cold weather damaged more than 28,000 hectares of paddies and rice seeds...
The Vietnamese the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Medicine Department on March 29 joined hands with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to start the second phase worth $30 million of an infectious disease control project in the country. This is part...
The Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety has recorded radioactive isotopes Cs-137 in Hanoi’s atmosphere, head of the agency Doctor Trinh Van Giap said. This means that the capital city is now contaminated with both I-131 and Cs-137...
Vietnam will build an online blood bank this year in a move to ease the country’s severe lack of blood for medical treatment, the An Ninh Thu Do newspaper reported Mar 31. The information was released at a meeting in Hanoi on March 30 to review the...
The Kuwaiti government will provide a $14.6 million loan through the Kuwait Fund to help Vietnam’s central province of Ha Tinh develop its infrastructure system, the government said on its website. The loan agreement was signed by Vietnamese Deputy...
The World Bank (WB) Mar 29 approved one loan and three credits totaling $570 million for development projects in Vietnam, the WB said on its Press Release on March 30. Of the sum, $180 million will be used to scale up and reinforce Vietnam’s...
