The central highlands province of Dak Lak has given vocational training to nearly 3,000 laborers this year, bringing the total number of rural laborers who have received free vocational training over the past three years to 9,159 people, including 5...
The first Representative Congress of Ethnic Minority Groups of Ho Chi Minh City opened on Dec. 27, attracting 486 delegates from 26 ethnic minority groups in the city. The congress emphasized the need to further promote the role of patriotic...
Vietnam and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) will cooperate to manage gender equality projects that cost nearly $2 million next year, state media reported Dec. 22, citing the fund representative in Vietnam. UNFPA and the country will...
The World Bank (WB) said Wednesday it has approved a $500-million loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to support stimulus effort and public investment reform in Vietnam. The loan is the largest ever made by the...
Foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have granted more than $1 billion for Vietnam from 2005 through June, 2009, the online VietnamNet newspaper reported. The figure equals the aid by NGOs for the Southeast Asian country between 1989 and...
Hanoi authorities have approved a plan to spend VND39 billion ($2.1 million) to modernize medical equipment for Saint Paul General Hospital. Of the sum, VND20 billion will come from the city’s budget and the remaining from other sectors, the Vietnam...
Thai Binh Duong Hospital in the central province of Quang Nam will invest VND100 billion ($5.4 million) to build a new clinic in Tam Ky City in early 2010. At a ceremony to mark five-year establishment Dec. 19, the hospital’s board of directors said...
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization and the Word Lung Foundation have launched a campaign to call for participation from different agencies in a bid to stop smoking at public places in early 2010. This is a move from the...
Vietnam cut the malnutrition rate among children to 19.9% in 2008 from 38.7% in 1998, state media reported, citing a senior health official. Minister of Health Nguyen Quoc Trieu released the figure at a meeting in Hanoi on Dec. 23 to review 10 years...
Hanoi’s health authorities are mulling a plan to spend VND600 billion ($32.5 million) to upgrade health stations from now up to 2020, local media reported Dec. 25. The plan aims to train medical human resources, purchase medical equipment and expand...
