Vietnam’s central province of Quang Tri has decided to invest more than $67 million in clearing up bombs and mines left from the war over the past two decades. The information was released at a conference held by the provincial People’s Committee on...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has issued an action plan from now until 2020 to cope with issues relating to Agent Orange/dioxin residue left from the Vietnam War. The ministry will focus on seven tasks to settle the thorny...
The World Vision International (WVI) pledges to continue its contributions to poverty reduction, sustainable development, and climate change mitigation in Vietnam, its President Kevin Jenkins assured President Tran Dai Quang during a meeting in...
The 53 ethnic minority groups in Vietnam had a total population of 13.39 million, accounting for 14.6% of the country’s population (91.71 million) as by July 1, 2015, a survey revealed. The General Statistics Office (GSO) released the results of a...
German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have cooperated to build manual guiding the investment in wind power in Vietnam in the context that the country is encouraging...
As many as 117 workers of a garment factory in Vietnam’s southern province of Kien Giang have been confirmed to have contracted flu virus H1N1, state media reported. The Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute has confirmed that samples taken from then...
As many as 117 workers of a garment factory in Vietnam’s southern province of Kien Giang have been confirmed to have contracted flu virus H1N1, state media reported. The Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute has confirmed that samples taken from then...
The risk of infectious disease in Vietnam is still high, with cases of infection likely to increase from now to the end of the year, said Ministry of Health in a recent online conference. From the beginning of this year, Vietnam has recorded 72,372...
Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City will provide free Zika tests at 30 public hospitals until the end of the year to keep control of the mosquito-transmitted infection in the region, state media reported. The city’s Preventive Health Department said people...
Authorities in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi have approved two water supply projects costing total VND8 trillion ($359 million) by 2020, easing the water shortage that troubles the urban people all year long, especially in summers. The two...
