The Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang will provide housing loans worth VND108 billion for nearly 3,600 disadvantaged households in the locality between now and 2020, according to the provincial People’s Committee. The program will give priority to...
Northwestern mountainous region remains the poorest part of Vietnam as more than half of households are rated “poor” and “near-poor”, far from the country’s average of 5%, state media reported, citing the Central Steering Committee for Sustainable...
Bau Truc pottery village in Ninh Thuan Province is highly recommended by travel guidebooks as this is where Cham ethnic people produce exotic pottery items. The village lies by National Highway 1A in Phuoc Dan Town, Ninh Phuoc District, about 10...
The Vietnamese prime minister has approved a $408.93 million project to build 2,174 small bridges in remote areas, with majority of the amount from the World Bank (WB), state media reported. The project is part of a program to build 4,145 small...
Vietnam’s northern mountainous city of Ha Giang will become a green city once the Secondary Cities (Green Cities) Development Project II – Ha Giang subproject is completed in the next five years. The information was revealed at a March 8 working...
The Japanese government has pledged to raise its official development assistance (ODA) for Vietnam by JPY290 billion or $2.5 billion in the 2016 fiscal year, according to the White Book on ODA released on March 8. According to the White Book, Japan...
A new breed of mosquitoes injected with bacteria in central Vietnam has been proven to be able to stop the spread of dengue fever and the Zika virus, Thanh Nien newspaper reported citing health officials as saying on March 7. In April 2013,...
Vietnam has so far recorded no cases related to Zika virus, which is now affecting 54 countries and territories worldwide, the Ministry of Health’s Preventive Medicine Department announced on March 7. However, taking into account the virus spread in...
The Department of Medicine under Vietnam’s Ministry of Health said that there will be 160,000 doses of meningococcal vaccine available in April. The volume includes 60,000 doses of Polysaccharide meningococcal A+C for children from two years old and...
Application of advanced mini techniques can reduce post-operative care and pain compared to traditional methods, doctors said at Binh Dan Hospital’s biennial conference held in Ho Chi Minh City on Mar 5. Laparoscopic surgery is used in appendectomy...
