A delegation of German parliamentarians has paid a working visit to the Ho Chi Minh City Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin recently in a move to share pains with them. The German MPs expressed their deep sympathies with the Vietnamese...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Mar 11 approved to set up a team to negotiate with the World Bank on borrowing loans to the 260-MW Trung Son hydropower project in the central province of Thanh Hoa. The negotiation team includes...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Vietnamese government have signed a loan agreement worth $540 million, to build metro route No.2 in the biggest city of Ho Chi Minh to ease its traffic jams.The loan contract was signed in Hanoi by Nguyen Van...
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed authorities of Ho Chi Minh City to make an adjustment for East-West Boulevard project, funded by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). However, Dung noted that the adjustment is not...
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has pledged to support advertisement of Dong Van karst geo-park in Vietnam’s northeastern province of Ha Giang. The organization will support the country in developing,...
Atlantic Philanthropies, the U.S. non-governmental organization (NGO) has funded $2 million to help improve health for ethnic minority women and children in Vietnam, the state-run Vietnam News Agency said late Mar 11. The project entitled “Improving...
Dengue fever attacked 6,600 Vietnamese people in the first two months of 2011, claiming four lives, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said. The central highlands recorded the highest number of such cases during the period among regions, followed...
Vietnam should come up with an effective awareness strategy to improve understanding of organ donation to lure more donors, said experts. The country is in dire need of organ transplant with around 500,000 people having transplant demand of various...
Around 5% of Vietnam’s 87-million population catch diabetes and between 15%-20% are facing a high risk of developing diabetes or pre-diabetes, the Central Endocrine Hospital said in its recent survey. The survey was released at conference held in...
Using wild animals for food and medicinal purposes will raise the risk of disease transmission from wild animals to people and domestic animals in Vietnam, foreign experts warned at a conference on emerging diseases and wild animals, in Hanoi on...
