Danish Embassy to Vietnam has rewarded two households making pottery in Hanoi for using kilns that save energy and cut carbon dioxide emissions, the state utility Vietnam Electricity (EVN) said on its website. Ambassador Charlotte Laursen granted...
Vietnam’s government has decided to grant VND85 billion ($3.78 million) for six provinces which were heavily affected by severe droughts and sea water intrusion last year, state media has reported. Accordingly, the Central Highlands provinces of Dak...
Hanoi Industrial Vocational College on Feb 24 inaugurated two workshops that are expected to offer training for hundreds of disadvantaged youths across Vietnam every year. The automobile and safety construction industry workshops were sponsored by...
A study by Vietnamese and Japanese experts has found that dioxin continues to affect the neurodevelopment of pre-school children in contaminated areas of Vietnam, due to perinatal dioxin exposure. The experts studied 176 mother and child pairs in...
As many as 2,275 disadvantaged communes in 48 provinces and cities nationwide will receive funding of VND21 trillion from the State budget to boost socio-economic development during the 2016 to 2020 period. The Prime Minister has approved the...
The San Chay ethnic minority in northeastern Bac Giang Province have preserved their wedding customs with cultural characteristics that have survived the test of time. Bac Giang is home to eight ethnic groups, including the San Chay minority people...
Germany will pour more money into infrastructure projects in Vietnam, specifically in HCM City which has been highly lauded for dynamic and robust development as the largest economic center in Vietnam, said Hans Jorg Brunerb, Charge d’Affaires of...
Vietnam needs an estimated $39.5 billion in official development assistance (ODA) and soft loans for development projects in the 2016-2020 period, according to reports of ministries, agencies and localities. The funding will focus on the transport,...
Vietnam has quarantined a 27-year-old man after this person coming back from Africa to Tan Son Nhat Airport on February 11, local media reported. The man, who worked as a photographer in Sierra Leone, was diagnosed with pneumonia before getting on...
No cases of Zika fever have been reported in Vietnam so far, but the country is expanding surveillance as the world epidemic situation becomes more serious, a health official said. At an urgent Ministry of Health meeting on Feb 16, Deputy Minister...
