Drought and saltwater intrusion in Vietnam’s southern region will be less severe in the 2016-2017 dry season, said the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. According to the centre, the flow of water in Mekong River will be 10%-20%...
The Public Affairs Sections (PAS) of the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi and the Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City have recently announced the 2017 Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD). Accordingly, first, second, or third-year undergraduate...
Military officers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak have reported that they found a large quantity of weapons. The weapons were unearthed during the construction of a waste water project in Buon Ma Thuot City on Nov 7. The weapons, left...
Shimizu has developed an efficient and cost-effective way to clean soil in Vietnam that remains contaminated to this day with toxic dioxins from the Vietnam War. The Japanese civil engineering company will propose to Hanoi that it install a large-...
The Vietnamese government has issued criteria for extremely poor communes and villages in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the 2016-2020 period. Accordingly, extremely disadvantaged villages must include one of the two following criteria: (1...
Buckwheat flowers from the northern province of Ha Giang will be showcased at Ly Thai To Park in downtown Hanoi during a three-day cultural festival of Mong people starting today. The event, designed to preserve and promote the cultural identity of...
The World Bank (WB) will help Vietnam build water-supply plants, according to an official at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment at a conference on water resources. Statistics show about 250,000 households in the Mekong Delta face...
Save the Children in Vietnam and the World Bank on November 10 signed a sponsorship agreement worth $2.82 million to improve nutrition for children in the northern mountainous region. Yen Bai and Son La provinces will benefit from the project from...
Foot-and-mouth disease has threatened to break out in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Dak Lak if the local authorities fail to take proper measures to prevent the disease from further spreading, said Vu Van Dong, deputy head of the province’...
The Drug Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Health last week decided to remove three substandard drugs from pharmacy shelves. These drugs including traditional medication produced on December 2, 2014 by Phuc Vinh Herbal Company;...
