Vietnam and the United State Dec 30 signed a memorandum of understanding to grant $17 million for the Southeast Asian country’s Agent Orange cleanup project in the 2011-2013 period, the U.S. embassy said. The project which will start next July will...
Vietnam’s natural resources and environment sector will need more investment to raise the country’s capacity in coping with global climate change and natural disasters, said Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai. The deputy PM made the statement at...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health (MoH) has provided newborn screening services for 181,865 infants in 30 localities nationwide since 2007, said a MoH official. Tran Mai Hoa, deputy head of the MoH’s General Department of Population and Family...
Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam has invested over VND51 billion ($2.62 million) in clean water supply and environmental sanitation projects since 2006, said a local official. The province’s Vice Chairman Nguyen Ngoc Quang made the...
More than 100 workers of Phong Dat Co., Ltd in Vietnam’s southern city of Can Tho, were hospitalized due to food poisoning on Dec 23. The workers reportedly suffered symptoms of stomachache, vomiting and dizzy after having lunch on the same day, the...
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Dong Nai is likely to face a lack of underground water sources in the near term due to uncontrolled exploitation, warned experts. The provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment said that Dong Nai...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi will build an action plan to cope with impacts of climate change from now up to 2011. The plan will include defining targets, forecast impact levels of climate change with many different scenarios, the...
Natural disasters are estimated to leave 245 dead, 50 missing and 363 injured across Vietnam in the first eleven months of this year, the Central Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Control said. Four floods and heavy rains in the central region...
Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi plans to invest in various projects to upgrade water drainage systems in the inner city with the funding from the municipal budget, the Ha Noi Moi newspaper reported Dec 23. Of the sum, VND23.3 billion will be poured...
All schools across Vietnam are now provided with free-of-charge Internet services thanks to a joint program between the Ministry of Education and Training and the Viettel Telecom Group (Viettel), the Tin Tuc newspaper reported Dec 20. Between...
