The Vietnamese government has approved to spend an estimated VND1.5 trillion ($71.87 million) on upgrading and expanding the Hanoi-based National Hospital of Pediatrics from now till 2015. The move aims to meeting the increasing demand of local...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi plans to build a general hospital in the third quarter of 2011 with an estimated investment of over VND3 trillion ($143.74 million) in a bid to ease burden to local hospitals which are all overloaded. Covering an area...
Khmer Buddhist followers in Hung Hoi commune, Vinh Loi district in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu have contributed VND4 billion to construction of a Khmer language teaching school. The three-storey school which is situated in the precinct of...
Troops from Section 50, Gia Lai Provincial Military Headquarters, over the past years, joined hands in promoting local people’s living standard. They have worked with local people to upgrade houses, schools and sanitise living environments. In...
Soldiers-volunteers from Economic-National Defence Unit No. 4 in Nghe An Province have recently supported Thai ethnic minority people in Tang Phan Village, Ky Son District, with upgrading their village road devastated by the flooding last year. The...
A conference reviewing the campaign ‘Day for the Poor’ 2010 was held in Hanoi on March 16 attended by Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Chairman, Huynh Dam. Over the past year, VND 6,574 billion was raised for the poor by organisations,...
Vietnam will spend nearly VND1.81 trillion ($86.73 million) on a sustainable poverty reduction program this year in line with a Resolution 30a/2008/NQ-CP by the government. Of the sum, more than VND1 trillion will benefit needy people in the...
Vietnam recorded 143,700 hungry households last month, with 587,900 hungry people, mainly from northern mountainous provinces, central coastal areas and central highlands region, the General Statistics Office said. Prolonged bitter cold affecting...
A landmine suddenly exploded on March 13, leaving a person injured in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue while doing earthwork for building houses. The victim, a 40-year-old woman from Thuy Phu district had a part of her right leg...
Around 8.4 million Vietnamese people or 9.66% of its population will likely suffer from water shortfall by 2050, warned the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB). The ADB attributed that Vietnam is listed among the five hardest-hit countries by climate...
