Provinces and cities across the country have carried out humanitarian programs to ensure the poor and those exposed to Agent Orange/Dioxin will enjoy a happy lunar New Year (Tet). The Central Highland province of Dak Nong has handed over 1,051...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that two irrigation projects financed by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank must be finished this year. The projects which are out of seven projects valued at $620 million the MARD is...
The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) launched a $500,000 project funded by the British and Swedish embassies in Vietnam to increase transparency in the local business environment, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan newspaper reported Jan. 28....
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) said that it will help Vietnam quicken the construction of projects funded with Japanese official development assistance (ODA) this year, the Dau tu newspaper reported Jan. 29, citing a JICA official....
The Swedish government had helped train nearly 3,000 Vietnamese journalists via professional training courses under the “Improving the Press’ Capability” project between 2004-2009. An exhibition to review and display the project’s activities...
Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang plans to build an obstetric and pediatric hospital that costs VND800 billion ($43.3 million) in the coming months. The 15-storey hospital, to be built on a site of 10 hectares in Soc Trang city, will have...
An A/H1N1 outbreak has occurred at a primary school in Vietnam’s northern province of Bac Kan’s Na Ri district, the Ministry of Health said at a meeting on swine flu prevention in Hanoi Jan. 27. Deputy Head of the ministry’s Preventive Health and...
As many as 500 French and Vietnamese professors and doctors exchanged advanced technologies in prevention and treatment of cardiovascular, diabetes and mental diseases at a seminar in Ho Chi Minh City Jan. 27. The French Servier Pharmaceutical...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health started a project on Jan. 28 to build eight satellite hospitals of Bach Mai Hospital as part of efforts to ease the overload. They are Ha Dong Hospital in Hanoi and seven general hospitals in Lao Cai, Nghe An, Bac...
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has provided $7.9 million to help Vietnam and other developing countries produce vaccines against influenza. The donation,...
