Ho Chi Minh City-based Saigon Institute of Technology (SaigonTech) will invest more than $400 million to build a hospital in Vung Tau City in May. Located on a site of 4 hectares, the 500-sickbed hospital will have 22 wards to treat cancer, brain...
The Hanoi Preventive Medicine Center will spray chemicals to kill mosquitoes on the large scale in March as part of efforts to prevent spreading of the epidemic diseases. The center plans to vaccinate 25 million poultry, localize all disease...
In Binh Duong province on March 16 Marie Stopes International announced reproductive health service for low income workers via private medical centers under a project financed by the World Bank in Binh Duong province and Ho Chi Minh City. Under the...
Vietnam central province of Thua Thien-Hue started implementing a plan to build a clean water supply system worth VND3.2 billion ($167,500) in A Luoi mountainous district Mar. 18. The system will help nearly 150 local people in three communes of Phu...
The Vietnamese government will provide its rice granary, the Mekong Delta region, with VND220 billion ($11.5 million) next month to water summer-autumn paddies, the Nong Nghiep Viet Nam newspaper reported. Pham Van Du, deputy head of the Department...
U.K. Cambridge University and Darwin Foundation joined hands with Vietnam’s central province of Nghe An-based Vinh University to hold a conference to preserve saola and other endemic hoofed mammals on Mar. 15. The two-day event drew participations...
Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV) has called on the community to join hands to protect wild tigers whose population has been falling sharply in recent years, the Voice of Vietnam Radio said Mar. 16. Addressing a press briefing in Hanoi on Mar. 15,...
Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) has launched a campaign to reduce consumption of wildlife products in Vietnam’s northern province of Nam Dinh, the Thanh Nien newspaper reported Mar. 16. The campaign named “green restaurant” is aimed...
Domestic and foreign donors pledged to fund more than VND14 billion ($732,900) for central Vietnam in the first quarter of this year to cope with natural disasters, the state-run Voice of Vietnam Radio said Mar. 15, citing an official of the Central...
Seoul will cooperate with Hanoi to upgrade the polluted To Lich River, ensuring the Vietnamese capital city’s urban scenery for its 1,000th founding anniversary. The cooperation was reached during a working session between Vice Chairman of the Hanoi...
