Twenty-one big projectiles recently found in a garden in Huong Hoa district, the central province of Quang Tri, have been successfully defused and removed. Peace Trees Vietnam, a U.S. non-governmental organization working on unexploded ordnances (...
Soft loans provided in the northwestern region helped lift more than 318,000 families out of poverty between 2011 and 2015. The information was released at a meeting on September 21 to review credit provision in the northwest. The event was held in...
Human resource training needs more attention in order to improve the effectiveness of socio-economic development policies in Khmer ethnic areas, heard a recent workshop held in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang. human resource training needed to...
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Intel Products Vietnam Co., Ltd began last weekend a joint project to restore habitats in Lang Sen Wetland Reserve in the Mekong delta with an aim to plant more than 12,000 trees this year. The project...
The cost of the Danang-Quang Ngai expressway project decreased by VND3 trillion ($134 million) thanks to an international bidding, said Mai Tuan Anh, general director of the project’s investor Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC). Mr. Anh made the...
Health authorities of Vietnam recently confirmed that a 63-year-old Taiwanese man tested positive for the Zika virus right after returning home from Vietnam, marking the fifth Zika case infected in the Southeast Asian country. The patient arrived in...
Vietnamese doctors have warned of possible outbreaks of seasonal diseases such as pinkeye, viral fever and respiratory tract infections. The Pediatrics Hospital has recorded more than 30,000 patients this month. It sees an average of 3,000 children...
Vietnam’s Health Ministry participated in a teleconference of Health ministers from ASEAN member states on September 19 to seek ways to battle with Zika virus, which has hit many parts of Southeast Asia, state media reported. As of September 16 in...
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has proposed the World Health Organization (WHO) increase technical and financial assistance for Vietnam, particularly in building healthcare policies and in the preparation and adaptation to public health issues,...
Some countries have given financial support to help Vietnam improve its water quality which become more polluted amid salinization and worsening climate change. The Dutch Government has assisted Vietnam’s universities to promote research on climate...
