The central province of Quang Ngai plans to build 20 new boarding schools for ethnic students by 2020. The move will raise the total number of local boarding schools to 39. There are more than 45,000 students across mountainous districts in the...
Vietnam’s central bank-run Thoi bao Ngan hang (Banking Times) newspaper reported Oct. 19 that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Citibank have reached an agreement to arrange a syndicated $100 million for micro financial institutions in developing...
The Vietnam News Agency has reported that the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has pledged to finance $211 million for Vietnam to cope with inundation in Ho Chi Minh City. The support will be made through a number of special-purpose...
A general hospital in Vietnam’s central province of Ha Tinh has admitted 31 infection cases including 11 died of the virus because of sepsis, a severe blood infection that can lead to organ failure and death, state media reported. Whitmore virus is...
Four cases of Japanese encephalitis have recently been reported in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, according to the local health officials. The provincial health department said four patients were residing in the districts of Sa...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health has requested hospitals nationwide to tighten their regulations on the transfer of patients for treatment at clinics outside the hospital and have proper punishments for violations, state media reported. After initial...
A four-month-old baby in Vietnam’s Central Highlands of Dak Lak province is suspected of microcephaly caused by Zika virus, marking the first case in Vietnam since the country reported having Zika. Zika testing was performed on the mother in a local...
Vietnam’ s Ministry of Health (MoH) has increased the Zika virus warning to level 3 - the dangerous level, according to director of the Preventive Medicine Department Tran Dac Phu. According to a study by authorities in the south-central province of...
Italy has decided to loan EUR13.7 million to Vietnam for wastewater treatment system and flood early warning system in two projects in the southern province of Tay Ninh. Under the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by the Vietnamese Ministry...
The tourism industry in Vietnam’s four central provinces suffering from the seawater pollution caused in April by Taiwanese steel maker Formosa Ha Tinh has reported thousands of billions of dong in lost revenues. As of October 13, Ha Tinh’s tourism...
