“Long Thanh Wants to Smile”, a German documentary on dioxin victims in Vietnam, has been nominated for this year Emmy Awards in the Current Affairs and News category. Made by Philipp Abresch, Singapore bureau chief of German broadcaster ARD, the 28-...
Hanoi is attempting to reduce the rate of poverty by 1.3%, equivalent to 27,000 poor households, in 2016, with preferential policies. More than 4,900 poor and near-poor households received preferential loans from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policy...
The Prime Minister has approved project proposals on poverty reduction in the northern mountainous provinces of Cao Bang and Bac Kan. The project targeting Bac Kan province will have a total investment of $37.5 million, of which $21.25 million in...
Ethnic minority affairs have always been a focus in development policies of the Party organization and government of the southern province of Kien Giang, which is home to 249,000 ethnic minority people, accounting for 14.3% of the local population....
Ethnics are given a strategic priority in the national policy on national great unity and policies for them should keep abreast with reality in their areas, asserted Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilization Truong Thi...
Vietnam’s prime minister has approved a technical support project for the City Infrastructure Financing Facility (CIFF) to finance municipal infrastructure in Vietnam, funded by the World Bank (WB). The technical support project costs $666,000 with...
Three Mekong Delta provinces of Soc Trang, Bac Lieu and Ca Mau, the biggest shrimp raising areas in Vietnam, will carry out a VND62.5 billion ($2.78 million) sustainable shrimp project funded by the EU. The project, to be implemented in the 2016-...
The Hanoi Department of Health officially launched its online administrative services on August 15 to issue practicing permits for health workers and business licenses to health care stations, state media reported. According to Director of the...
Vietnam will add vaccines against pneumonia, diarrhea and the HPV virus that causes cervical cancer to the national immunization program, with support from the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, state media reported. Each year, vaccines...
As one of the most fatal forms of cancer in women, cervical cancer kills seven women in Vietnam every day, according to a seminar on prevention and early detection of cervical cancer on August 17, state media reported. In addition, more than half of...
