The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the People’s Committee of southern Dong Nai province have reached consensus on the funding for a drainage and wastewater treatment project in Bien Hoa city after 10 years of negotiations....
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has just approved a plan to finance $1 billion to $1.5 billion in development aid for Vietnam in the next four years, ADB’s Vice President Stephen Groff told Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc during a...
More than 1,500 children with autism come to the National Hospital of Acupuncture for treatment every year, said head of the hospital Associate Prof Dr Nguyen Ba Quang at a recent conference on Vietnamese high-tech acupuncture therapy for paediatric...
The Ho Chi Minh City-based Center for Promotion of Quality of Life (LIFE) is providing 12,000 sets of rapid HIV tests free to high-risk groups, including men who have sex with men (MSM), transgender women, drug users and prostitutes via community-...
Vietnam’s Binh Phuoc on November 1 announced that the province had eliminated an outbreak of diphtheria on the district-level. On June 22, the outbreak was first reported in Thuan Loi and Thuan Phu communes of Dong Phu district. The disease claimed...
Vietnam’s central city of Danang city has been taking measures to fight dengue fever as infections are rising rapidly. Danang’s preventive medicine center reported that the city has so far this year recorded 3,183 cases of dengue fever, 709 more...
There are signs of the virus spreading rapidly across the city of 12 million people. Ho Chi Minh City reported nine more cases of the Zika virus on Nov 3, raising the total infections in the city to 30 and in Vietnam to 39. The health department...
The Department of Health of the southern province of Binh Duong on November 3 reported the second Zika infected case in the locality. A 20-year-old woman residing in Di An commune tested positive to the mosquito-borne virus after showing symptoms of...
Dozens of workers at the company also fell sick in a similar case five months ago. Health officials in Ho Chi Minh City are taking food samples from a Chinese-owned garment company to investigate a mass poisoning case that happened on Saturday. The...
More people living in Mekong delta provinces in Vietnam have moved to other regions, especially to the southeast which is home to the country’s most dynamic economic hub – Ho Chi Minh City. Statistics by the Southern Institute of Social Sciences...
