The HCM City People's Committee has submitted a proposal to allocate nearly VN?2.9 trillion ($114 million) more for the city’s sustainable poverty reduction programme for the 2021-2025 period.
At the 17th session of the municipal People's Council...
Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on July 16 signed a decision on the establishment of a national fund aiming to improve makeshift and dilapidated houses for poor and near-poor households.
The fund will receive, manage, and utilise money...
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) Jin Liqun on July 16, where AIIB committed $5 billion at preferential rates to support Vietnam's infrastructure projects, local media reported....
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) signed a lending agreement totaling $36 million for Phuong Nam 3A-1 Real Estate Business and Investment JSC on July 16 to develop an office building in Vietnam’s southern metropolis of Ho Chi Minh...
Vietnam has approximately 2.5 million hearing-impaired individuals, with 60% of them in the working age, but the number of patients receiving hearing aid interventions remains very low, an expert has said.
Associate Professor Dr. Tran Phan Chung...
On July 15, Tu Du Hospital in Vietnam’s southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City announced the successful birth of a baby who underwent fetal heart intervention, marking the third time a baby in Vietnam has been born healthy following such a...
Vietnamese life expectancy increased from 65.5 years in 1993 to 74.5 years last year, surpassing many countries with similar per capita incomes, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan has said.
Minister Lan shared this data at a meeting co-hosted by the...
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Health Dr. Nguyen Tri Thuc has highlighted the success of the salt reduction and hypertension management programs in Vietnam, supported by the Resolve to Save Lives initiative through the World Health Organization (WHO...
The management board of the Pu Luong Nature Reserve in Ba Thuoc district, Vietnam’s north-central province Thanh Hoa, has launched a project to preserve three precious and rare plant species – Trai ly (Garcinia fagraeoides A...
The Education for Nature – Vietnam (ENV), one of the country’s pioneering social organisations in wildlife conservation, has released a two-minute video clip titled "Chim troi keu cuu" (wild birds cry out for help) to urge the community to refrain...
