Two European philanthropists have spent more than a year walking from their continent to Asia to raise funds for needy children in Vietnam. Simon Niggli from Switzerland and Christoph Obmascher from Austria have walked 7,000km across 19 countries...
Total outstanding loans to ethnic people in Vietnam reached an estimated VND33 trillion ($1.46 billion) at the end of 2015, the Thoi Bao Kinh Te Viet Nam newspaper reported, citing Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP). The money, which was...
The World Bank (WB), the biggest provider of official development assistance (ODA), pledged to finance $622 million to Vietnam in 2016, nearly halving the figure of 2015, according to the national Television station (VTV). The funding has focused in...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will help Vietnamese farmers build 13,654 biogas plants worth over VND175 billion ($7.8 million) in 2016 under the Low Carbon Agricultural Support project, which is expected to reduce pollution from agricultural...
Non-profit organisation Handicap International on March 3 provided central Thua Thien-Hue province half a million US dollar in non-refundable financial aid to support people living with brain injuries. The 2016-2020 project involves designing...
Vietnam has about 100 out of more than 7,000 rare diseases reported from across the world, it was announced at a conference organized by the National Hospital of Pediatrics. The conference was held on Sunday to mark International Rare Disease Day. A...
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health Feb 29 held a meeting to review operations in the northern region and set out plans for this year, with a focus on improving disease prevention, medical care, and private investment in the sector. In 2015, over 1,300...
The Department of Health in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City has recently started a campaign to provide free polio vaccine to kids under five years old, state media reported. Under the campaign, it is scheduled that more than 200,000 children in district...
The Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Vietnam’s capital city of Hanoi on Mar 3 announced the first case of meningococcal meningitis in 2016, state media reported. Meningococcal meningitis, which is a bacterial form of meningitis that...
More than 17,000 citizens in Ganh Hao Town in Bac Lieu Province, who have not had stable clean water supply for years, are looking forward to a water supply plan. To Minh Duong, party secretary of the town's party committee in the southern province...
