The Vietnamese Fatherland Front in the central city of Danang has received more than VND520 billion ($26.6 million) from organizations and individuals to help poor people in the past ten years. The fund has been used to build and repair nearly 10,...
Saigon Co.op, operator of the Co.opMart supermarket chain, on Dec 7 awarded 150 scholarships worth VND5 million each to poor students nationwide. Students who received the scholarships will be given the opportunity to work for Saigon Co.op after...
The U.S. government has approved to grant $17 million to rid Vietnam’s central airport of Danang of Agent Orange, state media reported, citing an official. This is under the $70 million funding project which the U.S. government approved for Vietnam...
A photo exhibition of Vietnamese disabled teenagers who are victims of Agent Orange opened in a gallery of the Maison du Vietnam (House of Vietnam) in Paris on Dec 6. The exhibition, the first of its kind, titled “Our Life and Dreams” gathered...
A delegation of the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin (VAVA) visited the U.S. from Nov 22 to Dec 4 at an invitation of the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief & Responsibility Campaign (VAORRC) and Veteran For Peace (VFP). The...
The U.S. IMI Hospital will provide technical supports for the construction of a $300 million hospital in Vietnam’s southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau in the first quarter of 2011, the Dau Tu newspaper reported Dec 3. The 500-sickbed hospital,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) in Vietnam and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) will assist Vietnam in producing essential medicines, the Sai Gon Giai Phong online newspaper reported Nov 29. Officials of the...
Vietnam is estimated to have more than 20,000 citizens died of diseases relevant to unhygienic and dirty water yearly, an official of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. Diarrhea is blamed for half of these fatalities, UNICEF...
Dengue fever killed 74 out of total 109,300 affected people in cities and provinces of Vietnam in the first eleven months of this year, said the General Statistics Office. In Nov, the disease killed 19 out of 20,700 affected people, the office added...
Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue has approved a project to build an obstetric and pediatric hospital with a total investment of nearly VND156 billion ($8 million). The 200-sickbed hospital will be built on a site of 22,175 square meters...
