A consultation workshop on development of a risk sharing facility for renewable energy projects in Vietnam has been held in Hanoi under the support of German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and the United States Agency for International...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health on Aug 26 launched the first-ever HIV self-testing service in the country as part of programs receiving financial support by the U.S. government. It is part of components in the Healthy Markets project began in 2015...
Vietnam will remove nearly half of compulsory drug rehabilitation centers by 2020 to replace this kind of facility with voluntary treatment stations which will partly receive investment from the private sector. Under a decision signed by Prime...
About 8.7 million Vietnamese people have been infected with hepatitis B while the number for hepatitis C are 1 million, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH)’s Department for Preventive Medicine, state media reported. Hepatitis B and C killed 23...
The Vietnam Network of People Living with HIV (VNP+) on August 30 held a conference titled “Barriers to accessing health insurance for PLWH” with sponsorship from the HCM City Department of AIDS Prevention, the U.S. Agency for International...
The rainy season has begun and the serious drought in Mekong Delta is finally over. However, Vietnam will still face water shortages and saline intrusion in the long term. Mekong Delta suffered the most serious drought in the last 90 years in March...
Fifteen initiatives aiming to protect the environment and improve people’s livelihood and living standards were introduced at a workshop-exhibition in Hanoi on September 1. These initiatives, mostly focusing on solar and wind energy, LED lights and...
The second phase of a project funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has made practical contributions to protecting the environment of Ha Long Bay – a UNESCO-recognized World Natural Heritage, heard a conference in Quang Ninh...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has announced that Taiwan-invested Formosa Hung Nghiep Ha Tinh Steel Corporation completed compensating $500 million for environmental disaster it caused to the sea off central coast several...
Tropical storms and typhoons have caused 90 deaths, 223 others injured and damage worth VND8.7 trillion ($390 million) to Vietnam in the first eight months of this year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO). More than 81,800 houses were...
